Registration deadline: Thursday, September 17, 2026
Dates: September 30 to December 2, 2026
Schedule: Wednesday evenings, 6:00 to 9:00 pm
Delivery mode: Online
Language of instruction: English
Duration: 30 hours
Description
The supply chain is a crucial part of any business’ success. Optimizing the flow of products and services as they are planned, sourced, made, delivered, and returned can give your business an extra competitive edge.
This course will introduce you to the basic concepts of supply chain management, including the basic flow, core models, supply chain drivers, key metrics, benchmarking techniques, and ideas for taking your supply chain to the next level.
Upon completion of the Logistics & Supply Chain Management course, participants will be able to perform the following tasks:
- Define supply chain management and logistics
- Explain the vertical and virtual integration models
- Understand the stages in the basic supply chain flow
- Identify participants in the supply chain
- Recognize supply chain drivers and ways to optimize them
- Align supply chain strategy with business strategy
- Determine what metrics to track and how to benchmark the related data
- Troubleshoot basic supply chain problems
- Identify ways to develop their supply chain, such as using third-party logistics providers, insourcing processes, developing sustainable and eco-friendly strategies, leveraging process improvement strategies, and adopting new techniques
Prerequisites and Other Course Information
Prerequisites
- You must ensure that you have a stable internet connection and a device capable of supporting a Teams meeting with a working microphone and camera. It is also your responsibility to verify that your device is compatible with the applications and/or software covered in the course, if applicable.
Hardware Requirements
None
Software Requirements
None
Attendance and Virtual Classroom Behavior
This course requires your individual presence and your active, consistent and sustained participation in your individual work. Your individual responsibilities are to complete the work assigned, to be online and ready to work within the first five minutes of the class.
Active Participation
While the use of the camera remains optional, active participation implies that the learner takes part in discussions, answers and asks questions, either verbally or via the chat integrated into the meeting and participates in group and/or individual exercises. The instructor’s feedback is taken into account to validate that a learner’s participation has met the expectations for issuing the certificate.
Electronic certificates of completion will be given to students who have attended and actively participated in 80% or more of the scheduled classes. We will no longer issue paper certificates.
