Supply Chain Management

Driving value, alignment and sustainability

With greater customer sophistication, increasing network fragmentation, and fast-paced globalisation, the primary role of supply chain management, along with the coordination of material, information and cash flows, has become complex. Supply Chain Management is a multidisciplinary programme designed to help you conceive innovative strategies and deploy differentiated solutions that can help your organisation serve customers in an optimal fashion.  

The five-day programme is designed to address these issues through key concepts that underpin supply chain development. These are supported by three guiding principles: value, alignment and sustainability.
 

Key Benefits

• Adopt value as a guiding principle to deliver superior managerial performance with significant business impact
• Discover tools to align core processes resulting in the achievement of operational excellence
• Understand frameworks to manage risks and opportunities for sustainable supply chain management on a global scale

The Supply Chain Management programme focuses on improving the key flows in the supply chain by optimising business processes, organisational structures and enabling technologies.

Participants gain new skills and frameworks; look at the opportunities emerging with technological breakthroughs and global manufacturing; and examine the prospects for new partnerships along the supply chain. Knowing how to deploy enabling technologies rapidly and effectively can vastly increase both the efficiency of network operations and the effectiveness of customer service. Programme content includes: 

• Core processes: examines the different physical and market mediation roles of the supply chain.
• New organisational forms: explored as a source of competitive advantage
• Emerging infrastructure technologies: focusing on the implementation challenges new technologies bring and the opportunities for new partnerships and ways of working.
• Complementary topics: logistics infrastructure; decision support tools; risk management in a global context; etc.

This programme is designed for managers involved in creating, optimising or redesigning a supply chain. Participants should have experience in one of the following areas: operations, manufacturing, logistics, procurement, information technology management, marketing, new product development or distribution. They should also either be responsible for, or contribute to, the supply chain decision-making process in their company.

In addition to the areas outlined above, participants are typically from the following industries:

• Automobile
• Agribusiness
• Electronics
• Consumer goods
• Cosmetics
• Food and drinks
• Heavy industry
• Industrial chemical
• Pharmaceutical.

“The Supply Chain Management programme gives an excellent global view on what is a supply chain, defines the supply chain scope within the company and provides insight into its contribution to the global value chain.”

PE Business Department
Total Petrochemicals
Belgium

" This is a programme which puts supply chain management within the right framework. It helps you understand the potential of all supply chain people as value enablers and not as cost cutting executives. Add to this an international and broad network of supply chain managers who enrich the learning experience. "

Supply Chain Europe Director
Tenaris Dalmine
Italy

"Thanks Enver for a really good course.
I came back to Hong Kong  on  monday and updated my boss on my learnings - wow - immediately he was impressed and more importantly, we found new ways to approach a major airfreight issue with our customer year end. A fight we have to stand up for. Thanks to INSEAD, we have new light.
Excellent course and definitely in the real world !" 

Senior Commercial Manager
EFFEM Commercial Asia
A Mars Incorporated company
Hong Kong

Great minds don’t think alike

INSEAD’s professors represent many cultures, disciplines, and perspectives. Led by acknowledged world experts in their own particular fields, programme faculty remain intimately close to business and most are engaged in cross-disciplinary research.*

	Enver YÏ‹cesan Programme Director Professor of Operations Management Enver Yücesan's main teaching and research activities focus on tactical operational problems such as process analysis, manufacturing planning and control, integrated logistics, supply chain management, and performance assessment in manufacturing as well as service environments. Read more...
	Paul Kleindorfer Distinguished Research Professor

*programme faculty may change

Dates & Fees

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For full details on how to apply, accommodation, and cancellation conditions please visit the Practical Information page

* Fee subject to change. For programmes delivered in France, VAT (19.6%) to be added for companies based in France, or for European companies where no VAT number is supplied. For programmes delivered in Singapore, GST (7%) to be added for Singapore-registered companies.