Implementing Supply Chain Management

Learn how to implement supply chain management in your company. This course covers challenges, a five-step process for implementing supply chain management effectively, and more.

Introduction

• Why supply chain management matters

1. Focus on Supply Chain Processes

• Use a process framework
• Plan the supply chain
• Source inputs
• Make products and services
• Deliver products
• Return products
• Enable supply chains
• Challenge: Process map—make a pizza
• Solution: Process map—make a pizza

2. Manage Supply Chain Challenges

• Prioritize goals
• Calculate total costs
• Manage competing goals
• Mitigate risks
• Invest in flexibility
• Increase visibility with a control tower
• Supply chain innovation

3. Monitor Supply Chain Trends

• Ecommerce and social media
• Internet and data trends
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Blockchain
• Automation, robotics, and drones

4. Implement a Supply Chain Agenda

• Get the right people in the right positions
• Select the right technologies
• Collaborate internally
• Collaborate externally
• Manage projects effectively

Conclusion

• Continue growing as a supply chain management professional