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Supply Chain Management:
Strategy and Planning for Effective Operations

Related Programs
  Distribution Channel Management: Bridging the Sales and Marketing Divide
  The Science of Lean Six Sigma Operations
 

Upcoming Sessions
  February 23-26, 2010
$ 5,600
  June 6-9, 2010
$ 5,600
Operations Management Week
Combines our Science of Lean Six Sigma Operations and Supply Chain Management programs into a week-long executive series with a 10% discount!
Apply for OM Week
  February 21-26, 2010
$ 8,460
  June 6-11, 2010
$ 8,460
Key Benefits
During this course, you will:
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Learn to design supply chains that improve supply chain profitability
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Use product design, strategic sourcing, and contracts to most efficiently match supply and demand
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Build and maximize supply chain coordination and collaboration
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Identify supply chain risks and design risk mitigation strategies
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Explore purchasing, production, and distribution strategies for a global environment
 
"This program will help me as I move into a more strategic role in my organization."

Senior Production Planner -
Avery Dennison
students in class
© Nathan Mandell
Academic Director Sunil Chopra
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Create opportunities for revolutionizing your operations through increased efficiencies in the design and management of your supply chain. In this program, faculty present state-of-the-art models and practical tools for supply chain management and multi-plant coordination in a collaborative learning environment. 

You will learn effective logistics strategies for companies operating complex networks and be inspired to integrate supply chain components into a coordinated system to increase service levels and to reduce costs. The effective management of facilities, inventories, transportation, information, outsourcing, and strategic partnering to improve operational performance are presented with real-world case studies. Each participant receives the book Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation.

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Professor Sunil Chopra: How market uncertainty and globalization impact supply chain models

Program Content

Managing Inventory and Designing Logistics

Supply Chain Coordination and Integration

Purchasing and Sourcing in a Supply Chain

Accurate Response in a Global Supply Chain

E-Commerce and the Supply Chain

Supply Chain Risk


Operations Management Week
You may combine this program with our Science of Lean Six Sigma Operations program in Operations Management Week. When taken consecutively, these programs are offered at a 10% discount and provide an executive summary of the innovative approach to operations management used in the highly-acclaimed Kellogg MBA program.

 

Who Should Attend
Find out who should attend Supply Chain Management and what past participants have to say.

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