Overview
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Improve your knowledge in supply chain and operations management, from strategic sourcing to supply chain security, one tip at a time.
Syllabus
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Supply Chain Management
- Welcome to the course
- Focus on supply chain management
- Adopt strategic sourcing
- Avoid inventory stockouts
- Become a sustainability champion
- Connect distribution center processes
- Drive continuous process improvement
- Embrace omni-channel fulfillment
- Analyze your supply chain risks
- Prepare your business continuity plan
- Strengthen supply chain cybersecurity
- Track and trace your products
- Improve your sales forecast
- Use sales and operations planning (S&OP)
- Invest in innovation
- Lead cross-functional projects
- Calculate payback period and NPV
- Manage transportation decisions
- Analyze the impact of lead times
- Develop operations management skills
- Tips to reduce waste in your operations
- Calculate return on investment
- Prevent counterfeiting
- Manage employee turnover
- Pick the right production strategy
- Adopt strategic workforce planning
- Optimize your inventory
- Manage payment terms and cash flow
- Learn about MRP and ERP planning systems
- Use big data for operations management
- Optimize your perishable inventory
- Track your inventory turns
- Manage change and transitions
- Blockchain for supply chain
- Choose meaningful metrics and KPIs
- Build flexibility into your supply chain
- Automate your supply chain
- Optimize your lot sizes
- Manage customer returns
- Build a career in supply chain operations management
- Ten industries for supply chain operations managers
- Recruit top talent successfully
- Solve problems as a team
- Beware of the bullwhip effect
- Make your professional development plan
- Adopt formal purchasing ethics
- Learn about supplier relationship management (SRM)
- Use analytics for supply chain
- Learn about customer relationship management (CRM)
- Learn about warehouse management systems (WMSs)
- Learn about transportation management systems (TMSs)
