Key details
Mode of delivery: Online Course
Course code: SCM13AO
Duration: 3 days
Fee: £2,196.00 + VAT
CPD Hours: 18
Course Overview
This intensive 3-day course focuses on empowering participants with the knowledge and skills to enhance their supply chain operations.
Agenda
Day – 1 Foundations of Strategic Supply Chain Management
- Understanding Supply and Value Chains
- Supply Chain Strategy: Process and Data Flow
- Supply Chain Resilience and Efficiency
Day – 2 Building Supply Chain Resilience
- Analysing Supply Base and Achieving Stability
- Achieving Future State Resilience:
- Supply Chain Risk Management:
Day – 3 Enhancing Supply Chain Responsiveness
- Demand Forecasting Techniques
- Leveraging Technology for Responsiveness
- Just-in-Time Inventory Management
Course Review
- Summary and recap of key learning objectives
- Action Planning
Target Audience
This course is suitable for:
- Supply chain managers and professionals
- Logistics and operations managers
- Procurement specialists
- Business analysts focused on supply chain optimisation.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to implement a successful strategy that enables you to:
- Define and differentiate between supply and value chains and explain their impact on organisational strategy.
- Develop a framework for establishing effective process and data flows within a supply chain.
- Explain the relationship between supply chain resilience and efficiency, and identify the roles of MRP and ERP systems.
- Analyse a supply base to determine its capacity, capability, and reconfigurability.
- Develop strategies to achieve both current-state stability and future-state resilience.
- Identify and assess supply chain risks, and formulate effective mitigation plans.
- Apply appropriate demand forecasting techniques to improve supply chain planning.
- Evaluate and utilise technology solutions to enhance supply chain responsiveness.
- Assess and implement Just-in-Time (JIT) inventory management strategies.
Course dates
Apr 7, 2026 - Apr 9, 2026
Aug 10, 2026 - Aug 12, 2026
Nov 23, 2026 - Nov 25, 2026
