Advance Your Skills as a Supply Chain Manager

Overview

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Become a more confident supply chain manager. Learn critical skills to manage global supply chains effectively and efficiently. After completing this learning path, you'll advance your skills in project management, process improvement, quality management, supply chain analysis, leadership, and more.

Study supply chain process improvement and quality management.
Develop critical supply chain skills.
Learn supply chain analysis and analytics.

Syllabus

Course 1: Supply Chain and Operations Careers: Certification Tips and Tricks

Find out which supply chain certification is right for you. Review the major certifications—from APICS to SCMA—and get valuable study tips and tricks.

Course 2: Business Acumen for Project Managers

Learn core strategic and business management skills that can help to bolster your business acumen. Discover how to align your projects with the larger purpose of your organization.

Course 3: Project Management: International Projects

Learn techniques for improving collaboration and communication in settings where team players are separated by culture, language, and distance.

Course 4: Leading Remote Projects and Virtual Teams

Learn how to successfully manage remote projects and lead virtual teams.

Course 5: Project Management Foundations: Integration

Accelerate your project's performance by mastering integration management. Gain tactical knowledge on how to integrate all the components of a project to make it successful.

Course 6: Operational Excellence Foundations

Use the principles of operational excellence to deliver more value; improve processes, products, and services; and increase and sustain your competitive advantage.

Course 7: Lean Foundations

Learn about lean: an operations management approach that means creating more value for customers with fewer resources.

Course 8: Six Sigma Foundations

Learn how to use Six Sigma to drive improvements in the performance of your processes, products, and services.

Course 9: Data Analytics for Business Professionals

Learn how to use data analytics to make better business decisions and gain competitive advantage. This fast-paced introduction is ideal for managers and executives.

Course 10: Measuring Business Performance

Learn why performance measurement is critical and find out how to fix or develop business metric systems that align with your business goals.

Course 11: Requirements Elicitation and Analysis

Explore how to leverage elicitation and analysis techniques to define great requirements. Learn why these techniques are important and how to tailor them to your project.

Course 12: Learning Supply Chain Cybersecurity

Learn how cybersecurity best practices, policies, and processes can made your supply chain more secure.

Course 13: Fundamentals of Sustainable Supply Chains

Learn the practical foundations of supply chain sustainability and get started on improving your organization’s sustainability performance.

Course 14: Counterintuitive Leadership Strategies for a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) Environment

Learn how to leverage counterintuitive strategies to better lead in an always-on, push-harder, and do-more world.

Taught by

Daniel Stanton, Daniel Stanton, Sam Yankelevitch, Cyndi Snyder Dionisio, Oliver Yarbrough, M.S., PMP®, Dr. Richard Chua, Steven Brown, Dr. Richard Chua, John H. Johnson, Eddie Davila, Angela Wick, Emma Osborn, Sarah Barnes-Humphrey Supply Chain Leader and Sara Canaday