Achieving Supply Chain Transformation

Achieving Supply Chain Transformation shows how the best-in-class companies adapt their supply chains to the changing environment to improve their competitive position.

This program will help you gain an in-depth understanding of the critical elements of adaptive supply chain management through a business model we call pico^TM. Using the pico^TM model, you will learn how to optimize three critical metrics while identifying supply chain capabilities for exploitation:

• profit margin
• cash to cash cycle time (working capital)
• customer response time

This program is for supply chain leaders, general managers, and executives who are or will be playing a leadership role in helping their organizations respond to change and develop adaptive and flexible supply chains.

• Understand the critical elements of successful supply chains
• Identify supply chain capabilities for transformation
• Overcome barriers to implementing change for creating a more productive organizational culture.
• Acquire practical techniques and tools for leading and transforming business processes that bolster adaptability and viability during market uncertainty 

• Recognize how successful companies have transformed their supply chains.

Transformation Strategy and Change Management — What are the key factors for successful companies in managing change and what strategies do they utilize?

Supply Chain Transformation Case — How did a Fortune 100 company transform its supply chain to significantly reduce cost and improve customer service?

Change Leadership — Develop a framework in your organization for accelerated change and understand the need for preparing for the unexpected.

Information Technology — Properly-utilized information technology can help facilitate and implement changes in the supply chain along with improving efficiency and effectiveness.

Assessing Transformation Results — Companies need to be able to measure the outcomes of process and information systems changes that are made in the interest of improvement and continually assess the performance of their supply chain.

Case Study and Experiential Learning — A team-analysis approach will be used in the program to allow participants to test what they have learned when applied against a company's actual experience.

“Superb. Penn State sets the standard for others to follow. I really enjoyed and benefited from this entire program, and felt the balance between guest speakers and faculty was just right. Thank you for providing an excellent, superior training opportunity.  I'm already looking forward to the next course.”

 –Richard Workman, Logistics Management Specialist, US Army Logistics Innovation Agency

Achieving Supply Chain Transformation instructors include world-class faculty leaders from Penn State and other leading institutions, as well as supply chain professionals. Each instructor has an extensive background in research and consulting, and in educating executives. Each brings to the classroom best-practice tools and implementation processes for achieving world-class results.

Faculty Director

John Coyle, Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, The Smeal College of Business, Penn State
Read about Dr. Coyle in the July/August 2009 issue of Supply Chain Management Review "Profiles in Leadership" section.

Faculty Leaders

Chad Whyte , Senior Manager, Corporate Transportation, Church & Dwight Company, Inc.

David Demers, Managing Director and Co-founder, Avicon Partners LLC; and Adjunct Professor, The Smeal College of Business, Penn State

Sam Dragotta, Senior Director, Supply Chain Services, Church & Dwight Company, Inc.

Paul Strzelec, President & CEO, Digital Tempus, Inc.

Albert Vicere, Executive Education Professor of Strategic Leadership, The Smeal College of Business, Penn State

“The faculty have a lot of experience; they are very open and willing to share it with us and promote group-sharing information. In general the program has a very strategic approach of the supply chain, which helps to broaden your perspective. Most of the other programs that I have attended to do not reach this level of analysis.”

-- Erick Díaz González Boyer, Director of Logistics, Barcel, S.A. de C.V.

Additional Supply Chain Offerings Include:

• Essentials of Supply Chain Management  covers topics for building maximum efficiency through better reporting and measurement systems.

• Processes and Tools for Supply Chain Success  covers the latest technology and methods for defining, analyzing, and making recommendations for performance improvements.

• Designing and Leading Competitive Supply Chains  covers developing supply chain systems that support organizational strategy.

• Applying Lean Principles Across the Supply Chain introduces a systemic approach for applying Lean thinking to supply chain challenges and focuses on principles, tools, and application of strategy for greater speed and efficiency.

• Developing World-Class Supply Chain Collaboration  provides the tools and learning, based on practical applications, to start or improve your collaboration initiatives.

• Building Global Supply Chains for Competitive Advantage - NEW addresses supply chain macroeconomic factors, leading teams across geographies, global trade management and transportation issues.

There is no prerequisite for attending any of these programs. An Executive Programs representative will be happy to help you select the appropriate program for your current level of responsibility.

This program is cosponsored by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals.

Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
333 East Butterfield Road, Suite 140
Lombard, IL 60148
630-574-0985
FAX: 630-574-0989