This course was developed for professionals from any area or industry to learn the basics of contemporary Global Supply Chain Management to improve its management and understanding of current affairs and future trends. There is no mandatory prerequisite, but having some business experience will help participants make the most of the proposal of video clips, cases, texts, analyses, and content. From a unique approach, it adopts a strategic approach to the management of global supply chains. Such an approach will be useful even if the participant is not actively involved in supply chain management decisions because the knowledge acquired and developed will make participants better interlocutors in broad discussions involving supply chains that they may take part in their organizations.


您将学到什么
Understand and use the most important supply chain management concepts and frameworks for outsourcing
Identify and critically analyze the specific causes, effects, and remedies of demand volatility and uncertainty in different supply chains
Identify, critically analyze and remedy common pitfalls of supply and inventory management
Recognize the most relevant strategic issues and alternatives related to designing international direct and reverse logistics networks
您将获得的技能
- Sustainable Business
- Internet Of Things
- Supply Chain Management
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Materials Management
- Demand Planning
- Inventory Management System
- Strategic Decision-Making
- Governance
- Sustainability Standards
- Strategic Partnership
- Supply Chain
- Business Technologies
- Risk Mitigation
- Supply Chain Planning
- Forecasting
- Business Strategy
- Customer Demand Planning
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该课程共有5个模块
Global supply chains do not have a common boss or a common owner. This poses challenges to the governance of supply chains. We will discuss such challenges and we will also describe three fundamental concepts that are behind many of the techniques that we will discuss along the course: the prisoner’s dilemma, risk pooling and the bullwhip effect.
涵盖的内容
5个视频6篇阅读材料4个作业
In global supply chains, we face challenges (and also have opportunities) at all levels: operational, tactical and strategic. In this week we will focus on supply chain strategy and will discuss the following decision areas: “make or buy” and relationships with partners, segmentation issues and, management of flows of materials in supply chains.
涵盖的内容
7个视频2篇阅读材料5个作业
One of the overarching objectives of supply chain management is to continually be able to reconcile supply and demand. In week three we will discuss demand management, in the sense of articulating managerial options to influence and manage demand curves so that they display lower volatility and uncertainty levels.
涵盖的内容
5个视频1篇阅读材料4个作业
In week 4 we will discuss the other side of the equation that we started to discuss in week 3 – supply management. Here the main concepts of techniques of inventory management will be discussed in relation to both products (subjected to independent demand) and, components and raw materials (subjected to dependent demand).
涵盖的内容
9个视频1篇阅读材料5个作业
In this week we discuss two very relevant and contemporary topics in supply chain management: sustainability and the pursuit of the “triple bottom line” (profit, people and planet) and also technologies (software and hardware) that are associated with Industry 4.0 and their implication to supply chain management practice today and in the future.
涵盖的内容
7个视频3篇阅读材料4个作业1个讨论话题
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已于 Aug 25, 2024审阅
Basic concepts are explained wonderfully with the help of real world examples. Course material is detailed and interesting case studies are mentioned which keep you engaged while reading.
已于 Jul 14, 2025审阅
very good content and concepts along with additional video recordings
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