Overview
Research shows that effective supply chain management is crucial for financial success. Strategic decisions, like supply chain structure and geographic spread, directly impact performance. In Africa, challenges like infrastructure gaps and market volatility make it essential to design supply chains that are both resilient and efficient.
This programme addresses these challenges by providing tools to optimise supply chain operations, manage risks, and improve profitability.
Introduction
This Managing Supply Chains in Africa Programme equips participants with the skills to tackle real-world supply chain issues. It combines strategy, marketing, and operational management to improve logistics, sustainability, and inventory management.
Designed specifically for African managers, the programme offers practical insights and frameworks to enhance supply chain performance, profitability, and long-term success.
Programme Objective
By the end of the programme, participants will be able to:
- Enhance Strategic Supply Chain Management by equipping participants with the tools to drive efficiency and resilience in African markets.
- Foster Innovation in supply chain processes to adapt to emerging trends, including digital transformation and sustainability.
- Develop Practical Solutions for overcoming supply chain challenges unique to Africa, such as infrastructure limitations and regulatory complexities.
- Strengthen Decision-Making skills with data-driven approaches and best practices in procurement, logistics, and operations management.
- Promote Collaboration by building networks between professionals, businesses, and policymakers to advance supply chain development across Africa.
Programme Benefits?
- Learn tools to align supply chain processes for operational excellence and design supply chains that improve profitability
- Explore state-of-the-art models and solutions to the challenges of managing complex local, regional, and global supply chains, including logistics, inventories, transportation, information, relationships with suppliers, and outsourcing
- Learn frameworks to manage supply chain risk on local, regional, and global scales.
- Analyse sources of supply chain risk and explore strategies to mitigate risk. Incorporate reputational risk into supply chain design
- Explore purchasing, production, and distribution strategies and understand the trade-offs involved with execution on local, regional, and global scales
- Gain tools to adapt your supply chain to change
- Gain understanding of managing supply chains sustainability, and learn to manage the tension between sustainability and economic fundamentals
- Learn to make sense of the complexity and uncertainty of managing supply chains in the context of Africa.
Target Participants
This programme is ideal for professionals involved in supply chain management across Africa, including:
- Supply Chain Managers and Logistics Coordinators seeking to improve efficiency and innovation.
- Procurement Leaders focused on sourcing and cost-effective supply chain strategies.
- Operations Managers aiming to strengthen operational processes and business performance.
- Government Officials and Policymakers involved in trade and logistics regulation.
- Consultants advising on supply chain strategy, specifically in African contexts.
- Entrepreneurs and Business Owners aiming to optimize their supply chain systems for growth.
Key Benefits
By the end of the programme, participants be able to:
- Enhance Operational Excellence by designing supply chains that drive efficiency and profitability.
- Apply Scalable Frameworks to manage supply chains at local, regional, and global levels.
- Identify and Mitigate Risks, including operational and reputational challenges.
- Optimise Purchasing, Production, and Distribution by understanding key trade-offs.
- Build Adaptive Supply Chains that respond effectively to change and uncertainty.
- Integrate Sustainability while balancing economic and environmental priorities.
- Navigate Africa’s Unique Supply Chain Landscape by addressing its challenges and opportunities.
Programme Delivery
The programme is delivered in a live format at Strathmore University Business School campus. It includes lectures, class discussions, and real-life case analyses, along with guest lectures and a field trip for practical learning.
Participants will also engage in workshops and networking sessions, providing opportunities for informal interaction. They will work in teams on live field cases, solving supply chain challenges faced by real companies.
The mode of delivery is in-person at the SBS campus.
Programme Structure
The programme consists of ten modules, each addresses a key issue in the design and management of supply chains:
| Module 1 | Supply chains as a source of competitive advantage |
| Module 2 | The Make or Buy decision in the context of supply chains |
| Module 3 | Designing supply chains on local, regional, and global scales |
| Module 4 | Establishing and managing relationships with suppliers and subcontractors |
| Module 5 | Managing supply chains ethically: reputational consequences |
| Module 6 | Managing risk, building resilience into the design of supply chains |
| Module 7 | Digitizing the supply chains |
| Module 8 | Managing logistical challenges on regional and global scales in practice |
| Module 9 | Managing supply chains in Africa: African firms as suppliers for global supply chains |
| Module 10 | Managing supply chains in Africa: African firms as builders of supply chains |
Faculty
The programme is delivered by a high-powered faculty team consisting of academic and practitioners.
AAs a result, classroom discussions provide conceptual frameworks for effective decision making, along with practical tools for real-life implementation.
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Key Details
Date: 1 – 12 September 2025
Cost: Kes 150,000 (all-inclusive)
Mode of delivery: Face-to-Face (in-person)
For more information, write to Abigail on
- Email: aomari@strathmore.edu or eepolicy@strathmore.edu.
- Tel: +254 (0) 703 034 757.
- Cell: +254 (0) 705 329 305.
