Systems Operations and Strategic Interactions in Supply Chains

  • Overview
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Overview

Systems Operations and Strategic Interactions in Supply Chains

Course Description

Often the lack of cooperation and coordination between organizations or stakeholders lead to inefficiencies, despite having common goals. A systems view is needed to ensure appropriate use of scarce resources to meet the multiple, and often conflicting, short- and long-term goals from multiple constituents. This course will focus on conceptual and modeling skills to understand and effectively manage supply chains and operations from a systems perspective. Models will address system characteristics (e.g., demand dependencies) that drive system dynamics and policies to regulate performance. Course topics include methods for improving coordination and collaboration, addressing demand dependencies, and reliably measuring and evaluating system performance.

Course Content

INCENTIVES AND COORDINATION AND COLLABORATION

DEPENDENT DEMAND

SYSTEM INTERACTIONS AND PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT

Requirements & Materials

Important Information

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This course is taught in a classroom but includes an online pre-course to be completed before the classroom session begins.

Materials

Provided

  • Readings, case studies, spreadsheet files and lecture slides

Recommended

  • Laptop with Microsoft Excel and wi-fi capability

Session Details

  • Special Discounts: Register and pay for all three required Health and Humanitarian Supply Chain Management Certificate courses and receive a discount of $400 off per course. Enter coupon code SCL-HHS at checkout. Returning students of the Supply Chain & Logistics Institute (SCL) courses or alumni of GT EMIL and MSSCE programs are eligible to receive a 10% discount. Enter coupon code SCL-Alum at checkout. Members of certain organizations are eligible to receive a 10% discount. Enter coupon code SCL-Org at checkout. Review coupon instructions for more information.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for representatives from governmental or non-governmental organizations, private corporations, military, and foundations, including but not limited to senior executives overseeing administrative and operational functions of an organization, logistics and supply chain managers, program managers, directors of field operations, directors of emergency/disaster preparedness and response, and public health professionals.

Supply chain and logistics professionals learning in classroom

What You Will Learn

  • How coordination and collaboration can improve supply chain efficiency and effectiveness
  • How events, decisions, and actions in one part of a system, such as a supply chain, impact other parts of the system
  • System-wide inventory variability and costs mitigation and reduction
  • Evaluation metrics
Supply chain professionals collaborating in warehouse

How You Will Benefit

  • Identify opportunities for coordination within organizations and collaboration across organizations for increased efficiency and improved outcomes.
  • Describe the strategic behavior of decision makers and the impact of the market (or contract) structure on the participants' actions and the overall system dynamics.
  • Define evaluation metrics in alignment with the system goals and structure system operations and incentives that address and evaluate these metrics.
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I am really impressed with the scope of subjects covered and the practical case studies in diverse sectors from health, education, and other public sector projects.

- Kenny Onasanya
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