Strategic Supply Chain Leadership: A Holistic Overview

About this course

Supply chain disruptions cost Fortune 500 companies an average of $184 million annually, yet 73% lack visibility beyond Tier 1 suppliers. This Short Course was created to help Supply Chain Management and Analysis professionals accomplish strategic, resilient supply chain leadership that balances cost, risk, and sustainability. By completing this course, you'll be able to quantify complex trade-offs across your network, model disruption scenarios with sustainability integration, and create executive-level strategy documents that secure board approval for transformational investments. By the end of this course, you will be able to: analyze multi-tier supply-chain data to quantify trade-offs, evaluate resilience scenarios incorporating geopolitical and sustainability factors, and create executive strategy documents aligning technology with reduction objectives. This course integrates quantitative supply chain network analysis techniques such as Total Cost of Ownership modeling, scenario analysis, and multi-criteria decision frameworks with executive communication strategies, focusing on real $2M+ impact scenarios and board-level strategy development. To be successful, you should have experience with supply chain analytics, executive reporting, and strategic planning frameworks.

Course objectives

• help professionals accomplish strategic and resilient supply chain leadership
• balance cost, risk, and sustainability in supply chain decisions
• model disruption scenarios within supply chain networks