Overview
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Learn how to implement supply chain management in your company. This course covers challenges, a five-step process for implementing supply chain management effectively, and more.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Why supply chain management matters
- Use a process framework
- Plan the supply chain
- Source inputs
- Make products and services
- Deliver products
- Return products
- Enable supply chains
- ✓ Challenge: Process map—make a pizza
- ✓ Solution: Example solution
- Prioritize goals
- Calculate total costs
- Manage competing goals
- Mitigate risks
- Invest in flexibility
- Increase visibility with a control tower
- Supply chain innovation
- Ecommerce and social media
- Internet and data trends
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Blockchain
- Automation, robotics, and drones
- Get the right people in the right positions
- Select the right technologies
- Collaborate internally
- Collaborate externally
- Manage projects effectively
- Next steps
