APICS Supply Chain Resilience Certificate

Description

The Supply Chain Resilience Certificate program is a continuing education certificate designed to help supply chain professionals expand their resilience knowledge and skills. It will also enable leaders to drive resilience initiatives in their organizations. The Supply Chain Resilience Certificate signifies the completion of a foundational education program designed to help individuals build their knowledge in all aspects of supply chain resilience. With pandemics, fires, floods, and other natural disasters exposing the lack of robustness in supply chains both nationally and globally, the Supply Chain Resilience Certificate provides strategies in addressing these issues and forming solutions.

Audience

This course will be of interest to those who wish to further their careers by obtaining a signed certificate and digital badge from the Association of Supply Chain Management (ASCM), including those who are considering Supply Chain careers or have a few years of experience and are looking to expand their career options in Supply Chain Management or wish to stand out in a competitive job market. It will also be of interest to those that wish to gain education from ASCM, which is generally accepted as the
“gold standard” in supply chain education, training, and development, or as a pathway by those who wish to achieve ASCM certifications such as a CPIM, CSCP, or particularly the recently introduced CTSC, Certified in Transformation for Supply Chain.

Prerequisites

None, but some basic knowledge of supply chain will be beneficial.

Topics and Course Content

This course will cover topics such as:

• Risk Management in Supply Chains
  Learn how to identify risks and analyze their impact, steps for developing a risk
  management plan, and the role of risk management training in a supply chain
  organization.
• Strategic Planning, Data-Driven Decision-Making and Collaboration
  Discover strategic sourcing in supply chain resilience, define data analytics and
  key performance indicators, and explain the importance of information flows.
• Secure and Flexible Systems
  Understand the key elements of a secure supply chain and how different
  distribution and order management components can build resilience.
• Leadership and Resilient Organizational Culture
  Learn how supply chain leaders must balance resilience and efficiency to secure
  your network during disruption and how your leadership style can affect your
  supply chain.
• Sustainability, Innovation and Technology in Supply Chain Resilience
  Discover how implementing sustainable practices and utilizing technology can
  improve the resilience of your supply chain.

Learning Goals and Results

At the conclusion of the course, the participants will:

• Integrate resilience into supply chain management
• Manage risk in supply chains
• Make data-driven decisions
• Strengthen supplier collaboration and relationships
• Prepare for potential disruptions using data and strategic planning

Time Investment

This class is 20 hours of classroom time taken in 2-hour sessions (twice weekly) over a period of 5 weeks.