Engineering

Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management

The Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management online course explores the interactions between various organizations and effective strategies for managing them. Throughout the course, you'll embark on a journey that deepens your understanding of Supply Chain Management, guides you in making outsourcing decisions, and introduces you to foundational methods for planning and control. Additionally, the course provides essential tools for analyzing various aspects of your supply chain.

Price

200€

Workload

Up to 12 Hours

Type

Self-paced online

Languages

English

Instructor
  • Avatar of Max Finne
    Max Finne

    Max Finne is an Assistant Professor of Information and Service Management at Aalto University School of Business.

    Max Finne is an operations, projects, and supply chain management expert. He has specialized in servitization, Industry 4.0, service network management, professional service operations, inter-organizational collaboration, learning analytics, and flipped learning pedagogies. Finne has taught in several Warwick Business School’s prestigious Executive, Full-time, and Distance Learning MBA Programs before joining Aalto University. Even the most demanding student cohorts highly appreciate Finne’s teaching and have awarded him the highest student feedback of the whole teaching team on many occasions.

    He has carried out close research collaboration with companies such as ABB, Costain, Finnair, Fujitsu, KONE, NCC, and Skanska. He delivers innovative and engaging teaching with a high impact on learning, showcased through his winning the distinguished Nigel Slack Teaching Innovation Award in 2015, 2016, and 2018.

    Max Finne has been awarded Postgraduate Certificate in Academic and Professional Practice with distinction (1st-class honors) from the University of Warwick. It gave him full pedagogical qualification to teach in the UK Higher Education and recognition as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Benefits

By taking the course, you will learn supply chain management fundamentals. The course provides essential tools, concepts, and frameworks to be applied to your daily work.

In this course you will:

Acquire a comprehensive understanding of the core concepts of supply chain management.

Deepen your understanding of the pull and push strategies as the main two strategies for production planning and control.

Gain an ability to use some of the most central supply chain frameworks to analyze your company’s structural position within and the performance of the supply chain.

Familiarize yourself with the essential articles in the related topics.

Contents and Schedule

The course covers the fundamental concepts of supply chain management, vertical integration, push and pull strategies, and supply chain frameworks.

Each core module lasts about 1–2 hours, depending on the preferred study style. The length of the whole course, including the summary and final assessment, is about 5–10 hours. The course allows flexible study patterns; you can decide on your schedule and the speed of your progress.

    The course videos are subtitled in English.

    Module 1:

    Key Concepts of Supply Chain

      Module 2:

      Vertical Integration

        Module 3:

        Push and Pull Strategies

          Module 4:

          Frameworks of Supply Chain Management

            Summary and Next Steps


                For

                This online course benefits professionals from different functions of organizations who need both overall understanding and practical frameworks of supply chain management to be applied in their everyday business.