Supply Chain Digitization: Strategy and Design

Published learning objectives:

To understand how digitization tools can enable the alignment of supply chain strategy with process design

To design connected supply chain with better information flow and minimize the mismatch between demand and supply of products

Using mapping techniques to uncover digitization opportunities in the supply chain and unlock value for customers

To enhance supply chain performance with digitization at different nodes and justify investments in the fulfillment chain

Published course description:

How do you scale and design high-performing supply chains?Digitization is a massive force that can enable you to accomplish the same.You need a supply chain strategy to align with your customer needs, but you also need a good design to operationalize.

You need a vision, but you also need robust processes that align well with the strategy.Not just that, you need enablers that can link strategy with design – which are digital tools.

This course is unique because it allows you to reflect upon a firm's supply chain strategy and it's link with appropriate design (both fulfillment nodes such as manufacturing and warehousing, and modes of transport such as shipping and trucking).

Finally, it allows you to draw your own supply chain digital transformation canvas.

The conceptual tools at appropriate places allow you to understand how to analyze the performance trade-offs, choose the right tools and decipher the mechanism that will enable you to decide the path to digitization.