Supply Chain Leadership
Foundation course to earn the Supply Chain Leadership Certificate
Common senior leadership-driven objectives of 98 percent on-time customer service, 95 percent capacity utilization and 10 days of inventory may not only be challenging, but may be infeasible for the organization to achieve, given the characteristics of the manufacturing and distribution system. Learn how to quantify these trade-offs, set feasible objectives, minimize the total supply chain and improve the likelihood of achieving your plan.
Supply chains are extraordinarily complex and no single solution exists to resolve all issues that arise. This course contains no fads, no silver bullets, no three-letter acronyms and no wishful thinking. Diagnosing supply chain problems, quantifying improvement opportunities and leading improvement initiatives requires difficult data analysis, tough choices and hard work. The purpose of this course is to simplify the complicated and explore different approaches for improving business performance.
Issues Targeted in this Course
- Risk and uncertainty management
- Inventory optimization
- Performance metrics
- Production strategies
- Information Systems
Objectives and Benefits
- Integrate supply chain strategy, planning and execution
- Diagnose the root causes of poor supply chain performance
- Quantify the devastating effects of uncertainty on supply chain performance
- Develop methods for identifying organizational structure and performance metric disconnects
“My goal in taking the ‘Supply Chain Inventory Planning’ course through the University of Wisconsin-Madison Executive Education was to gain a better understanding of business unit material requirements, planning, forecasting and scheduling activities that are complemented by the inventory management activities I am responsible for.
The course certainly delivered! I left the class ready to apply the valuable inventory management and warehousing policies and procedures I’d learned in order to better integrate and optimize my company’s individual warehouse and total inventory management strategies.
I feel the course curriculum incorporated marketing, product development, sourcing, planning, production and logistics exceptionally well. The relevant game play and practical model experimentation allowed me and the other students to apply core curriculum concepts in a fun and easy-to-understand way.
Since attending this course, I have been able to successfully establish and monitor inventory and all associated logistics performance measures within my company. Thank you!”
Elisa Bjork, Inventory Procurement Planning Analyst, Alliant Energy, Madison, WI
The University of Wisconsin–Madison, as a member of the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), authorizes this course for 2.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or 24 hours.
gsrenaski@exed.wisc.edu