Professional Development Certificate in
Operations, Logistics & Supply Chain Management
Overview
The economic challenges brought about by the pandemic, geopolitical developments, and technological progress have exposed vulnerabilities in operations and supply chains and raised concerns about the resilience of organisations. According to the Supply Chain Management Review, fewer organizations were able to achieve their business goals in 2023 due to these disruptions. This has reignited the debate between lean and resilient supply chains.
The Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management professional development certificate aims to help quantify the trade-off between leanness and resilience, enabling the creation of innovative business models and the implementation of solutions that can mitigate the trade-off, allowing organizations to better serve their customers. With increasing customer demands, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations, growing network fragmentation, deglobalization, and rapid technological advancements, the role of operations, logistics and supply chain management has expanded beyond coordinating material, information, and cash flows.
This course is designed to address these challenges through key concepts that are fundamental to achieving operations, logistics and supply chain excellence, guided by the principles of value, alignment, and sustainability. This professional development training is tailored to help participants develop and execute innovative strategies to effectively and efficiently serve their clients and customers.
Objectives
- Design and optimise operations, logistics, supply chain systems that align functions, strategy, and partners to enhance organisational performance.
- Develop and implement strategies to measure and improve lead-time gaps, leveraging lean thinking principles.
- Integrate logistics, supply chain operations internally and externally through effective relationship management.
- Incorporate sustainable development, corporate responsibility, and environmental ethics into supply chain decision-making.
- Analyse and map operation, logistics, supply chain operations to identify value-added activities.
- Formulate operational strategies to match demand and supply.
- Assess and prioritise improvement opportunities to address market changes, risks, and sustainability challenges.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyse the basic principles underlying supply chain management and understand how the performance of an organization’s supply chain is impacted by alignment between functions, strategy and partners in the supply chain and changing customer demands and supply chain risks.
- Understand approaches to measuring the lead-time gap and evaluate ways to improve it, including the application of lean thinking.
- Evaluate approaches to operations, logistics and supply chain integration, both internally and externally, distinguishing supply relationships from arm’s length to Joint Ventures.
- Evaluate the concepts of sustainable development, sustainable retailing, corporate responsibility, environmental impact and ethics.
- Analyse and map operations within a supply chain context to identify where activities add values.
- Formulate operational strategies for matching demand and supply.
- Assess alternative improvement opportunities within the supply chain to address changing markets, risks and sustainability challenges.
Modules
This module aims to provide participants with a strong foundation for the course by introducing the main concepts and principles that support Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, including the important issue of sustainability. It covers the fundamental principles of contemporary operations, logistics and supply chain management within a business context. The module will explore how best practices in these fields can contribute to achieving sustainable competitive advantage. It also delves into overarching aspects of supply chain sustainability, such as corporate responsibility and ethics.
Topics include:
- Reimagining Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Strategy in the Age of Digital Transformation.
- Linking Oprations, Logistics and Supply Chain Strategy and Structure
- Operations, Logistics, and Supply Chain Innovation and Leadership
- Sustainable Transport Logistics and Supply Chain
This module is designed to offer a comprehensive overview of the role of operations within an organisation’s collaborative and constructive working environment, business models, and performance. It will also cover the overall context of supply chain management and the external environment. The goal is to enable individuals to analyze and design effective supply chain operations with the ultimate objective of improving the alignment between demand and supply.
Topics include;
- Supply Chain Operation Analysis and Network Design
- Demand management, Sales and Operational Planning
- Capacity Management, Sequencing and Scheduling
- Global Logistic Value Chain Management
Who Should Enrol?
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Supply chain, logistics or procurement professionals who want to enhance their skills, knowledge and confidence to take on more demanding executive roles in the future.
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Individuals with business or organisational experience in a non-supply chain area who are intending to move into the supply chain field, or have recently had a change in career track.
- Ambitious professionals who are keen to develop themselves and want a "real-world" education delivered by faculty who are actively engaged with business, and can bring their knowledge to the programme.
Learning Method
- Delivered through a combination of interactive sessions, case studies, by industry experts, and peer-to-peer learning sessions, participants will have the opportunity to apply learned concepts to real-world situations through practical exercises.
MODE OF STUDY
Online (Live) Sessions
DURATION
9am-2pm 6 Saturdays (March-April)
or
3pm-7pm 8 Sundays (March-April)
PROGRAMME FEE
Ghc 2,500
Participants shall be provided with training materials and be awarded a Professional Development Certificate in Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management from M-Gibes College of Business and Management-UK.
