Supply Chain Management Professional Certificate

Fast-paced globalization, accelerating technological innovations and greater customer expectations are impacting supply chain excellence. Agility, resilience, and digitization are core competencies to mitigate risks and disruptions that shake today’s business operations.

The Supply Chain Management Professional Certificate provides a holistic approach to business model alignment, strategic priorities, and organizational capabilities. The certificate helps participants meet the shifting requirements occurring in domestic and global supply chains – such as the demands brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. During the program, participants will be exposed to the different perspectives of supply chain design: from supply chains as systems, digital opportunities, and challenges to the development of human capital in supply chains.

By the end of the program, participants will be able to challenge the status quo and build a competitive supply chain functional structure and process model aligned with corporate strategy, organizational structure, and other influencing factors.

• Set functional supply chain strategy in line with the corporate strategy, competitive strategies, market needs, operating experience, and other internal and external factors
• Design supply chain infrastructure, organizational structure, process flow, systems, and process technologies
• Apply all supply chain processes, design scorecards, and manage performances using the best-fit improvement philosophy and methodology
• Develop an understanding of techniques that positively influence the company’s financial statements and customer experience
• Implement the digital and technological solutions across the three supply chain flows; cash, information, and material
• Classify the product/service supply chain as either lean or agile models
• Transform the existing supply chain system into a resilient digitized model

• Supervisors, middle and senior managers in the supply chain domain (services or manufacturing)
• Supervisors and managers seeking career shift to the supply chain domain

A. Core Courses

Supply Chain Strategy and Design (24 hrs)

• This course takes a holistic approach to ensure the alignment of business models, strategic priorities, and organizational capabilities with the configuration of the firm’s supply chain
• The course integrates the four perspectives of supply chain design, supply chains as systems, digital opportunities, and challenges, and finally development of human capital in supply chains

Supply Chain Planning and Execution (30 hrs)

• This course focuses on delivering inclusive integrated practical knowledge about end-to-end supply chain functions and processes
• The course inspires participants to challenge the status quo and build state of the art supply chain functional structure and process model aligned with the corporate strategy, organizational structure, and other factors
• Supply Chain Finance (18 hours)
• This course is designed to equip participants with the needed knowledge of finance and financial statements relevant to the supply chain
• The aim of this course is to enable participants to identify, analyze, and critically assess the company’s management of the key components and elements of working capital and how it should be financed
• Supply Chain Excellence (24 hours)
• This course focuses on equipping participants with hands-on models and methodologies to rank existing supply chain networks and processes contributing to top and bottom-line improvements
• Participants will learn to design agile and efficient supply chains mitigating relevant risks and disruptions

Supply Chain Finance (18 hrs)

• This course is designed to equip participants with the needed knowledge of finance and financial statements relevant to the supply chain.
• The aim of this course is to enable participants to identify, analyze, and critically assess the company’s management of the key components and elements of working capital and how it should be financed.

Supply Chain Excellence (24 hrs)

• This course focuses on equipping participants with hands-on models and methodologies to rank existing supply chain networks and processes contributing to top and bottom-line improvements.
• Participants will learn to design agile and efficient supply chains mitigating relevant risks and disruptions

Quality and Continuous Improvement (24 hrs)

• This course provides a  comprehensive overview of quality management principles, tools, and methodologies. Participants will learn about the evolution of quality concepts, problem-solving  techniques, and continuous improvement models such as TQM, Six Sigma, and Lean. 
• The course also covers strategy deployment, assessment, and gap analysis to help organizations enhance their quality and continuous improvement efforts. 

B. Business Acumen (Self-Paced Online) - One course

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Admission Criteria

• Bachelor’s degree
• Proficiency in written and spoken English
• A minimum 4 years of general work experience

Admission Process

1. Prepare a clear scanned copy of the following documents (saved in PDF format):
   1. Original bachelor’s degree certificate
   2. National identification card (ID)/passport
2. Fill in the application and upload the above PDF documents
3. The Admissions Committee will review your application and contact you if needed
4. You will receive an acceptance email specifying the next steps for online payment. Your registration is confirmed upon payment

For any inquiries regarding the application process, contact us at 15592 or by email.