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Designing the Lean Supply Chain

This course teaches you how to deliver excellent customer value with minimal inventories. On a strategic level, you’ll learn how to identify key leverage points for superior execution of demand fulfillment activities; we’ll also teach you tactics for planning and positioning inventories at key locations in the supply chain as well as distributing and replenishing those inventories.

This course is one of four optional courses for certification in Supply Chain Management. Even if you aren’t interested in certification, you can take this course independently.

This course is also available as a custom course on the Knoxville campus or at a location of your choice.

Supply Chain Management Certification Courses

Key Benefits


This course teaches you how to harness lean enterprise system knowledge to use supply chain resources more efficiently—so you can deliver excellent customer value using minimal inventories. You’ll be an active participant in the class, which uses a balance of theory and applied learning to teach important concepts.

In this course, we’ll cover . . .
  • Network design and tradeoffs
  • Big-picture thinking
  • Identification of physical and policy constraints in the supply chain
  • Inventory strategies
  • Superior execution of distribution and replenishment activities
If you’re pursuing certification, a knowledge assessment (a test or other assignment) will be given after you complete the course.

Intended Audience


Executives and managers who have experience in the traditional business functions (finance, production, marketing, sales, accounting, engineering, logistics) but want to add to their knowledge of how these functions work together within the company and across companies in the supply chain.

Experienced managers and executives (even within logistics)—with or without a graduate business degree—should consider adding this expertise in supply chain management to their personal education.

Duration/Dates


2 ½ days

TBD

Faculty


Chad Autry, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Logistics
John Bell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Logistics
Melissa Bowers, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Management Science
Phillip R. Daves, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Finance
J. Paul Dittmann, Ph.D., Executive Director of The University of Tennessee Global Supply Chain Institute
Terry L. Esper, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Logistics
Mary C. Holcomb, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Logistics
Diane A. Mollenkopf, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Logistics
Mark A. Moon, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Marketing
Kenneth Petersen, Ph.D., Professor of Logistics and J.H. Dove Professor of Logistics
Mandyam Srinivasan, Ph.D., Professor of Management Science and Pilot Corporation  Chair of Excellence in Business
Theodore P. Stank, Ph.D., Professor of Logistics and Bruce Chair of Excellence in Business
Wendy Tate, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Logistics
Priscilla Wisner, Ph.D., Distinguished Lecturer, Accounting and Information Management

Cost


$3,150 ($3,050 for CSCMP members; $2,677 for UT Supply Chain Forum members)

$1,575 if repeating the course

Cost of the program includes . . .
  • Most meals
  • Single-room hotel lodging
  • On-campus transportation
  • Materials/simulations
  • Professional education credits, where applicable
Preferred pricing is available for multiple attendees from the same organization, current students and alumni of the Executive-Level MBA programs, and individuals who qualify for our General Services Agency (GSA) tuition rates. Note: if you qualify for GSA tuition rates, meals and lodging will be billed separately.

Visit our preferred pricing page or call +1 (865) 974-5001 for more information.