What you'll learn:
- Learn a supply chain sustainability approach to improve your business practices and your company’s sustainability goals.
- Understand how supply chains practices have a real impact on sustainability: environment, social and economic
- Learn how companies can benefit from sustainable supply chain management
- Learn multiple sustainable strategies and initiatives to implement in operations (manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing) and product management
- Have a glimpse of how some of these strategies are applied in the real world through examples and case studies
- Understand the trade-offs between the different sustainable strategies in the supply chain
This course is part of a course series on Sustainable Supply Chains: Fundamentals & Reporting, Operational Strategies, and Procurement Strategies. These courses will give you a complete and detailed view of sustainability and supply chains.
With this knowledge, you will be prepared to make a real difference in the world. Why is that? Because supply chains are central enablers for the sustainability goals and commitments of organizations.
We will go from the most basic knowledge to actionable strategies to have an impact and improve your business operations and sustainability goals, through better sustainable supply chain management.
This course is about operational strategies, there are 3 main supply chain management processes: manufacturing, logistics and warehousing, and additionally product design. In the first section, we present a 5-step continuous improvement approach to apply in any supply chain management process. This will give you a structure for implementing strategies in an organized way, to align with your company’s goals.
In the second section, we start with an integral view of the impact of manufacturing operations in terms of environment environmental, social, and economic sustainability. Then, some strategies, case studies, examples, and sustainability KPIs are presented. These elements will be shown for every supply chain management process covered in the course, within its corresponding chapter.
In the logistics section, the strategies are presented in 3-time horizons, aligned with the typical level of decisions in supply chain management: strategic, tactical, and operational. In the next section, to complement the information on sustainable manufacturing and logistics (that are both related to warehousing), we present a view of the construction and operational use of facilities, with a focus on the environment.
In the end, we give some guidance and recommendations on the Eco-design of products, with an example of their application, step-by-step.
