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Operations Management Week

You may combine The Science of Lean Six Sigma Operations program with the Supply Chain Management program in Operations Management Week. When taken consecutively, these programs are offered at a discount and provide an executive summary of the innovative approach to operations management used in the highly-acclaimed Kellogg MBA program. The Summer session of Operations Management Week begins with The Science of Lean Six Sigma followed by Supply Chain Management. The Winter session includes the same content but begins with Supply Chain Management.

The Science of Lean Six Sigma Operations
Combines the business-flow framework with the science of lean and six sigma, enabling participants to make major improvements in their operations and service processes.

Supply Chain Management
Focuses on effective logistics strategies for companies that operate globally, and, in particular, on integrating supply chain components into a coordinated system that reduces system-wide cost and increases service levels.
Upcoming Sessions (Fee includes lodging and most meals)
Session Date Cost
June 2-7, 2013 $9,000 Apply
February 16-21, 2014 $9,270 Apply

Program Materials


Who Should Attend:
  1. Senior and mid-level process managers at manufacturing or service companies
  2. VP of Logistics, VP of Manufacturing, Plant Manager, Operations Manager
  3. Consultants, engineers, production-control specialists


Key Benefits:

  1. Link day-to-day operational details to business strategies
  2. Analyze process flows to target improvement efforts
  3. Work with your systems’ natural tendencies to develop customized policies for your environment
  4. Identify strategies for increasing throughput, shortening flow time, reducing variability, and improving quality

Who Should Attend:
  1. Senior and mid-level supply chain managers
  2. Operations, logistics, purchasing, inventory control, and transportation leaders
  3. Consultants and general managers seeking to increase supply chain efficiency


Key Benefits:

  1. Learn to design supply chains that improve supply-chain profitability
  2. Use product design, strategic sourcing and contracts to most efficiently match supply and demand
  3. Build and maximize supply-chain coordination and collaboration
  4. Identify supply-chain risks and design risk mitigation strategies
  5. Explore purchasing, production and distribution strategies for a global environment
Sunil Chopra - Academic Director; IBM Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems

Jan A. Van Mieghem - Academic Director; Harold L. Stuart Professor of Managerial Economics; Professor of Operations Management

Gad Allon - Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences

Anne Coughlan - John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Marketing

Daniel Diermeier - IBM Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice; Director of the Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship

Rakesh Vohra - John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences; Director of the Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics & Management

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