Operations & Technology
Operations Management Week
An executive-level approach to innovation in operations management
Combining these two highly focused programs will maximize your time with us and give you a solid grounding and keen insight into Kellogg’s innovative approach to operations management.
The Science of Lean Operations
Learn how to master and implement the practice of Lean Six Sigma and put your company on the right road to world-class lean operations. Designed for managers, consultants and others involved in operations, this program focuses on how to optimize your organization’s costs, quality, speed and customer service to significantly impact your bottom line.
In this focused program, you’ll take a proven, interdisciplinary approach —incorporating management, strategy, marketing and decision sciences —to designing and managing your supply chain. Guided by senior Kellogg faculty experts, you and your fellow participants will explore state-of-the-art models and solutions to the real-world challenges of managing facilities, logistics, inventories, transportation, information, outsourcing, complex networks and more.
Immerse yourself in innovative operations thinking
Science of Lean Operations
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
Supply Chain Management
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
Faculty
Sunil Chopra - Academic Director; 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 - Polk Bros. Chair in Retailing; Professor of Marketing
What Participants Say
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."
The Science of 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."
Personal Consultation
Please email or call us if you would like a personal consultation
2019 Sessions
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April 7-12, 2019 Start: April 7 at 1:00 PM End: April 12 at 12:00 PM Evanston campus |
$10,000 Combined programs fee includes lodging and most meals. |