Operations Management Bundle

An executive-level approach to innovation in operations management

Combining these two highly focused programs will maximize your time with us and give you a solid grounding and keen insight into Kellogg’s innovative approach to operations management.

Lean Operations

Learn how to master and implement the practice of Lean Six Sigma and put your company on the right road to world-class lean operations. Designed for managers, consultants and others involved in operations, this program focuses on how to optimize your organization’s costs, quality, speed and customer service to significantly impact your bottom line.

Supply Chain Management

In this focused program, you’ll take a proven, interdisciplinary approach —incorporating management, strategy, marketing and decision sciences —to designing and managing your supply chain. Guided by senior Kellogg faculty experts, you and your fellow participants will explore state-of-the-art models and solutions to the real-world challenges of managing facilities, logistics, inventories, transportation, information, outsourcing, complex networks and more.

Lean Operations Key Benefits:

• Link day-to-day operational details to business strategies
• Analyze process flows to target improvement efforts
• Work with your systems’ natural tendencies to develop customized policies for your environment
• Identify strategies for increasing throughput, shortening flow time, reducing variability, and improving quality

Supply Chain Management Key Benefits:

• Learn to design supply chains that improve supply-chain profitability
• Use product design, strategic sourcing and contracts to most efficiently match supply and demand
• Build and maximize supply-chain coordination and collaboration
• Identify supply-chain risks and design risk mitigation strategies
• Explore purchasing, production and distribution strategies for a global environment