Supply Chain Fundamentals
- Provider edX
- Cost Free Online Course (Audit)
- Session Upcoming
- Language English
- Certificate $299 Certificate Available
- Effort 8-12 hours a week
- Duration 13 weeks long
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Overview
This Supply Chain Fundamentals course is part of the MITx MicroMasters Credential in Supply Chain Management, offered by #1 ranked SCM Master's program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The CTL.SC1x Supply Chain Fundamentals course provides the foundational skills for supply chain management and logistics. You will learn how to develop and apply analytic tools, approaches, and techniques used in the design and operation of logistics systems and integrated supply chains. The material is taught from a managerial perspective, with an emphasis on where and how specific tools can be used to improve the overall performance and reduce the total cost of a supply chain. We place a strong emphasis on the development and use of fundamental mathematical models to illustrate the underlying concepts involved in both intra- and inter-company logistics operations.
The main topic areas we will focus on this course are:
- Demand Forecasting, Planning, and Management
- Inventory Planning, Management, and Control
- Transportation Planning, Management, and Execution
While our main objective is to develop and use models to help us analyze these situations, we will make heavy use of examples from industry to provide illustrations of the concepts in practice. This is neither a purely theoretical nor a case study course, but rather an applied analytical course that addresses real problems found in practice.
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- #3 in Subjects / Business / Strategic Management
- #1 in Subjects / Strategic Management / Supply Chain
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This course is second part of 5 courses in supply chain management micromasters program. I was interested in learning about supply chain (purely personal interest, my work touch this topic but not directly) and stumbled upon this course, took it, and man-oh-man...I just couldn't stop learning. Now I'm planning to take the rest of the courses.
Average time/effort per week should be around 8-10 hours, but I tried to squeeze everything into just 5 hour…
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I have no pre-knowledge in supply chain management, so the course is hard for me, but Is is really well organized that makes me challenge.
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