Who Should Attend:

• Senior and mid-level process managers at manufacturing or service companies
• VP of Logistics, VP of Manufacturing, Plant Manager, Operations Manager
• Consultants, engineers, production-control specialists

Key Benefits:

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

Who Should Attend:

• Senior and mid-level supply chain managers
• Operations, logistics, purchasing, inventory control, and transportation leaders
• Consultants and general managers seeking to increase supply chain efficiency

Key Benefits:

• Learn to design supply chains that improve supply-chain profitability
• Use product design, strategic sourcing and contracts to most efficiently match supply and demand
• Build and maximize supply-chain coordination and collaboration
• Identify supply-chain risks and design risk mitigation strategies
• Explore purchasing, production and distribution strategies for a global environment

Sunil Chopra - Academic Director; Deputy Dean; IBM Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems; Professor of Operations

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

Anne Coughlan - Emeritus Professor of Marketing

Supply Chain Management – "There are many moments throughout the course [in which] you are really forced to think about how your supply chain is designed versus how it should be."

Lean Operations – "Every operations specialist should have the skills from this class in their toolbox. The knowledge…is relevant, insightful, and immediately applicable in almost any operational setting."