Supply chains now have to balance cost, service, risk, and resilience while absorbing disruption that arrives without warning. This course covers the strategic foundations, then works through forecasting, inventory, risk assessment, supplier management, network optimisation, and how AI is changing both the decisions and the roles involved.

This Course Offers

• Strategic foundations of modern supply chains, including resilience, agility, demand forecasting, and planning
• Data driven analysis and practical approaches to inventory, risk, supplier management, logistics, and network optimisation
• Forecasting and planning principles, plus inventory management balancing cost, availability, and service levels
• Risk assessment and disruption preparation using root cause analysis and scenario planning, with optimisation techniques like linear programming and cost benefit analysis
• AI applications in supply chain optimisation, visibility, analytics, and decision making, plus how roles and required skills are changing

Why We Love This Course

1. No prior supply chain or technical experience is required, so it works as a genuine starting point.
2. It goes beyond individual functions to show how strategy, data, optimisation, resilience, and technology fit together.
3. The final section addresses how AI is changing supply chain roles, which is a practical concern for anyone in the field.
4. At three hours across twenty two lessons, it covers a broad landscape efficiently without requiring data science expertise.

Supply chain problems tend to surface as stockouts, delays, or unexpected costs, and understanding the system behind them is what allows better decisions. Do you want to react to disruption, or build resilience into the network before it hits? Enrollment is open, and basic business operations familiarity is helpful.

• This course is perfect for supply chain, logistics, procurement, operations, and planning professionals.
• It suits business professionals and managers wanting a broader understanding of how data, technology, and AI change supply chain decisions.
• Learners preparing for or transitioning into supply chain roles will find the structured foundation directly useful.

• No prior supply chain or technical experience is required.
• A basic understanding of business operations is helpful but not essential.
• No data science or AI specialist background is needed, since the focus is on applying these tools to supply chain decisions.

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