Supply Chain Management

Strategy and Planning for Effective Operations

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.

You’ll develop new skills for integrating your supply chain into a coordinated system and how to identify supply chain risks and design mitigation strategies. You’ll leave equipped with new knowledge and tools for integrating strategy, planning and operations to increase service levels and reduce costs.

Combined Program Option: Operations Management Week Take Supply Chain Management with The Science of Lean Operations program consecutively as part of Operations Management Week and qualify for a discounted fee. This combination offers you an executive-level overview of the innovative approach to operations management taught in the acclaimed Kellogg MBA Program.

Key Benefits

• Design supply chains that improve 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

Program Content

Link Between Supply Chain Strategy and Structure

• Identify drivers of supply chain performance
• Link the structure of these drivers to the success of supply chain strategy

Supply Chain Network Design

• Identify trade-offs in supply chain network design
• Discuss approaches to account for uncertainty and risk when designing networks

Supply Chain Coordination and Integration

• Discuss causes of information distortion in the supply chain
• Identify suitable countermeasures to coordinate the supply chain

Managing Inventory in a Supply Chain

• Discuss mechanisms to reduce cycle inventory without hurting cost
• Identify approaches to reduce safety inventory without hurting product availability

Purchasing and Sourcing In a Supply Chain

• Discuss frameworks for outsourcing and extracting value from procurement
• Analyze strategies for pricing and auctions during procurement

Managing Risk in a Global Supply Chain

• Analyze sources of supply chain risk and explore strategies to help mitigate risk
• Incorporate reputational risk into supply chain design