Businesses and their supply chains are facing increasing competition and uncertainty in what is now a truly globalised trade environment. To remain competitive, organisations need to think globally – ensuring supply chains meet customer demands while minimising costs and maximising responsiveness. From a strategic perspective, this involves making important trade-off decisions between cost, quality and flexibility of supply chains. Via structured learning activities (video lectures, quizzes, discussion prompts and written assessments) this course will equip you with the future-focused capabilities needed to design and manage effective, sustainable and efficient global supply chains of tomorrow.
This course is part of the Strategising: Management for Global Competitive Advantage Specialization
About this Course
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Try Coursera for BusinessWhat you will learn
Identify the key drivers of global supply chain effectiveness
Create supply chain networks that are aligned with supply chain and business strategy of the firm
Identify the critical success factors, pitfalls, and risks of global supply chain management
Evaluate the sustainability of global supply chain operations
Skills you will gain
- Risk Assessment
- Supply Chain
- Sustainable Design
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Strategic supply chain management in global markets
Logistics drivers of global supply chains
Principles of global supply chain network design
Sourcing decisions in global markets
Reviews
- 5 stars80.90%
- 4 stars16.18%
- 3 stars1.94%
- 2 stars0.32%
- 1 star0.64%
TOP REVIEWS FROM SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT: BE GLOBAL
Online class for supply chain management was really helpful it helped me to build a base by providing a lot of information
The course is great, but could do with some better translations on the video script. Some of the grammar is incorrect.
course provided new perspective on the subject of supply chain management...........
The course is excellent. It will be much better if some study materials are provided. Thank You
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