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Aligning Strategy, Leadership, and Culture: Keys to Competitive Advantage

This program is designed for leaders charged with creating and implementing strategy. Participants will assess forces shaping their business environment, examine organizational capability and talent needed to compete, and learn how to establish a common sense of focus and purpose that drives commitment, cooperation, and performance.

Supply Chain Collaboration and Alignment

Program covers processes for improving internal functional alignment through sales and operations planning (S&OP) as well as ways to improve alignment externally through collaborative planning (CPFR) between trading partners.

Applying Lean Principles Across the Supply Chain

The concept of Lean is nothing new. In contrast, applying Lean principles in an extended supply chain context is new territory for a tried and true practice. Learn a systemic approach for applying Lean thinking to supply chain challenges.

Developing Managerial Effectiveness

This program guides managers to a better understanding of their contribution to the overall success of the organization. Participants develop an integrated approach to strategic, financial, and performance management. You will hone personal leadership, decision-making, and influence skills while maximizing the use of management systems to improve the overall success of your organization. This program is designed for managers who are directly responsible for the performance of a business unit or department as well as functional managers and those who lead in a matrix organization.

Finance for the Non-Financial Manager

In a true hands-on learning experience, participants acquire a complete “toolbox” of accounting and financial knowledge for making decisions that affect the performance of their unit and contributes to the overall profitability of the organization. This program covers accounting basics, financial analysis and planning, strategic finance, corporate valuation, and an integrated exercise in the Smeal Trading Room. Finance for the Non-Financial Manager is designed for supervisors, general managers, and functional managers in areas such as sales, manufacturing, or engineering.

Designing and Leading Competitive Supply Chains

Targeted for senior-level executives charged with design and orchestration of complex supply chain systems. Participants learn practices that enhance supply chain speed, flexibility, and competitive differentiation.

Essentials of Supply Chain Management

This program offers all the foundational understanding to managing effective supply chains. Learn common terminology, inventory methodologies, distribution concepts, and service performance.

Processes and Tools for Supply Chain Success

What are effective methods for Planning, Sourcing, Make, Deliver, and Return? Using the SCOR (Supply-Chain Operations Reference) Model as the thread, participants learn tools and techniques to define, analyze, and implement improvements for each major function with the supply chain.

Achieving Supply Chain Transformation

Targeted for mid-level and senior managers responsible for leveraging supply chains for financial and service performance. Learn a unique step-by-step methodology of strategies and capabilities for supply chain innovation and transformation.

Global Supply Chain Strategy & Risk Management

Discuss macroeconomic factors affecting extended supply chains. Learn techniques and strategies to deal effectively with unique managerial, cultural, and infrastructure issues associated with different geo-centers of expertise.

Enterprise Integration & Transformation: Beyond IT/Business Alignment

Enterprise Integration & Transformation: Beyond IT/Business Alignment uncovers critical enterprise principles that serve as the foundation in establishing a framework for guiding transformation efforts. The program covers how to use current theory and research, leading-edge industry experience, and proven best practices and tools to develop a transformation roadmap for effective and sustainable organizational integration and transformation

Essential of Supply Chain Management (at SMHEC)

This program offers all the foundational understanding to managing effective supply chains. Participants learn common terminology, inventory methodologies, distribution concepts, and service performance. Topics include: • Concepts of pooling, postponement, and other inventory deployment strategies • Customer service management • Industry case study on trading partner collaboration • Team-based simulation for applied learning

Achieving Supply Chain Transformation (at SMHEC)

This program shows how the best-in-class companies adapt their supply chains to the changing environment to improve their competitive position. Participants gain an in-depth understanding of the critical elements of adaptive supply chain management through a business model called “pico tm” and a step-by-step methodology of strategies and capabilities for supply chain innovation and transformation. Topics include: • Change management and implications for supply chain strategy • Leadership for transformation • Dimensions of high-performing operating models • Case studies in transformation