Designing and Leading Competitive Supply Chains

Join with other senior-level supply chain executives to learn industry best practices that enhance supply chain speed, flexibility, and competitive differentiation. Creatively link the diverse pieces of your systems to the overall corporate strategy and business processes. Contribute to your organization’s competitive advantage while helping to create shareholder value.

Designing and Leading Competitive Supply Chains is designed for upper-middle and senior-level executives responsible for the development and management of logistics and supply processes strategy. Representative titles include: vice president, director, or manager of logistics, purchasing, supply chains, operations, distribution, or materials management.

From program design to delivery, we carefully orchestrate all factors to maximize your personal and professional development. Faculty present the most current methodologies and research as well as world-class experience in supply chain practices. Prominent guest speakers provide timely insight at evening events on contemporary issues in business and technology.

A key component of the program includes initiative/project work where participants create a personal solution framework for priority issues or challenges they face within the organization. Participants work with learning tools in both group discussion and reflection sessions specially created to build strategic bridges between content and applicability. Participants leave with a concrete process for turning new vision into organizational direction and results.

"The most significant aspects of the program for me were the interaction with peers, thought-provoking cases, and excellent takeaways for best practices and analytical tools."

Mr. James Mathias
Executive Vice President, Operations
CORE Motion, Inc.

You will leave Designing and Leading Competitive Supply Chains equipped to do the following:

• Develop supply chain systems aligned with organizational strategy
  
• Compete on value-added factors other than product and price
  
• Precisely target system components for performance improvement
  
• Scan your supply chain for benchmark status as well as see what’s coming next in the field
  
• Progress with your own identified initiative/project
  
  

Designing and Implementing Supply Chain Concepts

• Principles and advanced concepts of supply chain management
• Frameworks for achieving an integrated supply chain
• Measuring supply chain performance relative to corporate goals
• Designing appropriate supply chain strategies
• Insights into the sub-architectures of every supply chain
• Information and decision support technology in supply chains
• Supply chain simulation

Managing Global Supply Chains

• Unique challenges of international supply chains
• Ownership vs. management vs. control of supply chains
• Product design and mass customization
• Time accounting vs. cost accounting-inventory velocity
• The global factory
• Outsourcing
• Role of e-Business initiatives
• Cases in global supply chain operation

Supply Chains and the New Financial Imperatives

• Competitive strategy and valuation
• Creating shareholder value
• Cash flow - The basis of value
• The supply chain role in improving:
• Cash flow margin
• Asset productivity
• Growth and investment

Supply Chain Activities and the Evolving Organization

• The mind of the customer and customer service
• Purchasing materials and logistics services
• Cutting edge and next edge purchasing and supply
• Trends in supply chain logistics activities
• Supply chain strategies within the firm's competitive drive
• Supply chain management in today's changing organizations
• Seeking value through relationships
• Managing effective change

Conclusions-Strategic Supply Chain Imperatives for the Future

• New supply chain strategies and structures
• New customer and supplier relationships
• New cross-functional relationships and measurements
• Improving operating performance
• Measuring supply chain management's impact on corporate performance
  
  

"As a 3PL services provider, I've become 'hyper-critical' of those in the services business. Given this, I've not seen any other program designed and executed as well as the Designing and Leading Competitive Supply Chains program."

Mr. Glenn Andrews

Director, Government Programs

• Develop and manage global supply chain systems to create competitive advantage.
• Techniques for capturing and creating corporate value through supply chains
  
• Create logistics strategies to support corporate goals.
• Implement the latest thinking into logistics systems.
• Manage complexity in international systems.
  
  

Planned Faculty Include

Faculty Director

Alan Stenger, Professor of Supply Chain Management, The Smeal College of Business, Penn State

Faculty Leaders

Joe Cavinato, Professor of Supply Chain Management at Thunderbird; and Executive Director, Institute for Supply Management's Center for Strategic Supply Leadership

Chris Muscarella, Professor of Finance and the L. W. Roy & Mary Lois Clark Teaching Fellow, The Smeal College of Business, Penn State

Terry Harrison, Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems, The Smeal College of Business, Penn State

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.
  

• Achieving Supply Chain Transformation covers the critical elements of adaptive supply chain management: strategy, people, process, IT, and assessment.
  

• 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.

Enhance Your Competencies with a Supply Chain Certificate!  

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