Efficient supply chain management has become a key source of competitive advantage for organizations operating in the global marketplace. As a student in the boundary-spanning field of study in supply chain management, you can improve your ability to develop supply chain solutions for your organization as you gain an understanding of how companies use supply chain networks to acquire, produce, and deliver goods and services domestically and worldwide.
Applied Knowledge
Improve your learning experience and your company's bottom line each day as you put theory into practice. Getting your certification online while you work full-time allows you to apply the knowledge you gain to your current job on a daily basis. This program integrates strategic procurement and supply management, demand fulfillment, supply chain planning, and network design processes, along with information systems as the critical enabler of supply chain efficiencies and responsiveness. These core processes span traditional functional boundaries and encompass important activities such as:
- information technology and decision support
- supply strategy development, outsourcing, supply segmentation
- purchasing, negotiations
- developing and managing strategic interorganizational relationships
- inventory cost analysis, planning, control
- collaborative retail replenishment approaches
- performance measurement
- costing, pricing, and revenue management
- demand forecasting and order fulfillment
- transportation systems operation, third-party logistics services providers
- supply chain strategy and network design
- supply chain implementation challenges, leadership, change management
Learn with Industry Leaders
As a student in this program, you'll progress through the courses with others like you—making meaningful personal contacts that will not only benefit your education, but also serve as a professional networking opportunity.
Some of the world's largest and most complex organizations that have turned to this online program for professional education in supply chain management are:
- Wal-Mart
- Coca-Cola
- ConocoPhillips
- Dow Corning Corporation
- IBM
- The Boeing Company
- General Electric
- Mobil Corporation
- Nordstrom
- Pfizer
- Procter & Gamble
- Sherwin-Williams
- U.S. Marine Corps
- U.S. Army
- U.S. Navy
- U.S. Air Force
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