Learn to manage global supply networks and supplier performance across time zones.
Skills you will gain
- Global Supply Chain Coordination: Understand how global networks manage the flow of goods and services.
- Impact of Supply Chain Decisions: Analyze how strategic supply chain choices affect global channel structures.
- Global Sourcing & Delivery: Master the best practices for global sourcing and alternative product delivery methods.
- Supplier Performance Management: Learn strategies to ensure international supplier performance across time zones.
- International Shipping Terminology: Gain proficiency in essential international shipping terms and their applications.
Course Description
Formerly SCMT.X405 - Managing Global Supply Chains.
The products that consumers use every day do not reach their local stores by accident. They are produced, assembled, and shipped from all over the world. Advanced modern technologies and pandemic-related changes have highlighted global interdependencies and challenges. Linear thinking of supply chain is out of date. The global supply chain is more and more a supply network.
In Managing Global Supply Chains, you'll learn how a product reaches its final destination and how the latest industry trends impact global supply chain network management. We'll cover how to make the best global sourcing decisions, choose alternatives to delivering products to customers, and ensure international supplier performance despite time zones differences.
It is highly recommended that students take "Evolving Role of Supply Chain Manager" as the first course prior to taking this course.
Learning Outcomes
At the conclusion of the course, you should be able to
- Recognize how global supply chains coordinate the flow of goods and services
- Understand how supply chain decisions can impact global channel structures
- Review commonly used international shipping terminology
Topics Include
- Planning and sourcing in the supply chain
- Strategy development and market research
- Operations, delivery and inventory management
- Global logistics management and trends
- International trade agreements
- Technology tools in global logistics
- Outsourcing and offshoring
- Make or buy decisions
*This course may be applied to a certificate only if you are currently declared in a program.
This course applies to these programs: