Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management (online)
The effective management of supplier relationships is becoming ever more critical in the global business landscape that is characterized by increasingly intensive competition and rapidly evolving technologies.
Fundamentals of Supply chain Management course focuses on the interphase between different organizations and ways to manage it. The course will take you through a journey that covers the understanding of what Supply Chain Management is, making decisions on outsourcing, designing the primary mode for planning and control, as well as laying the ground for carrying out analysis on different aspects of your supply chain.
The course is designed to support independent study optimally. You can choose when and how to carry out the learning tasks. You will also get a certificate for the completion of the course.
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Offers a unique insight into the relationships between organizations and ways to manage interphases.
Provides the basic frameworks and concepts of supply chain management with practical learning tasks.
A cost-effective and flexible way to deepen your understanding of supplier relationships.
Program Benefits
By taking the course, you will learn the fundamentals of supply chain management. The course provides essential tools, concepts, and frameworks to be applied to your daily work.
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This online course is beneficial to professionals from different functions who need both overall understanding and practical frameworks of supply chain management to be applied in their everyday business.
Contents and Schedule
The online course covers the fundamental concepts of supply chain management, vertical integration, push and pull strategies, supply chain frameworks.
The duration of each core module is about 1–2 hours, depending on the preferred study style. The length of the whole course, including summary and final assessment, is about 5–10 hours.
Each core module contains:
- Introduction
- Video lecture (from 5 to 9 minutes)
- A small reflection task
- Reading assignment based on a specific article
- Knowledge check questions
- Review of the key takeaways from the module
Program Structure
A Pre-Test for Self-Assessment
Four core modules
Each core module is about 1–2 hours
The Final Assessment
You will receive a certificate of the completion of the course
Modules
Instructors
Max Finne
Dr. Max Finne is an expert in operations, projects, and supply chain management. Finne is an Assistant Professor of Information and Service Management at Aalto University School of Business. 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, which is showcased through his winning the distinguished Nigel Slack Teaching Innovation Award in 2015, 2016, and 2018.
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 Programmes before joining Aalto University. Even the most demanding student cohorts highly appreciate Finne’s teaching and have awarded him with the highest student feedback of the whole teaching team on many occasions.
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.