Background
Research highlights that effective supply chain management is pivotal for achieving financial success. Strategic choices regarding supply chain structure, including fragmentation and geographic spread, have a profound impact on a company’s performance. This insight drives our programme, crafted to address these critical elements.
Overview
Transform your approach to supply chain management with our comprehensive programme. We blend advanced management, strategy, marketing, and decision sciences to tackle real-world challenges in logistics, sustainability, and inventory management. You’ll gain valuable insights and practical tools to turn your supply chain into a powerful competitive advantage, driving both differentiation and sustainable success.
Introduction
Unlock the potential of your supply chain with our cutting-edge programme designed specifically for African managers. Discover how strategic supply chain design and management can dramatically boost your firm’s profitability and performance. Leverage the latest research showing that supply chain structure and decisions significantly influence financial success.
Programme Objective
By completing the programme, you will master the art of modern supply chain management, learning how to reshape product design and production for a competitive edge. Gain expertise in managing complex supply chains at local, regional, and global levels, including logistics, inventory, supplier relationships, and outsourcing.
Specifically tailored for the African context, this programme equips you with the knowledge and skills to excel in global supply chains and meet the unique demands of the African market.
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
- The programme is designed for senior and mid-level managers involved in creating, optimising, or redesigning local, regional, or international supply chains and logistics systems.
- If you are responsible for, or contribute to, the supply chain decision-making process in your company, and interested in learning strategies, concepts, and techniques necessary to manage more effectively your firm’s supply chain;
- if you want to gain a deeper understanding of the role supply chains play in your firm’s overall business strategy and competitive performance, this programme is for you.
Benefits of Attending
By the end of the programme, participants should be able to:
- Gain a deep understanding of how emergent sustainability challenges and trends impact their sectors, roles and regions
- Identify the sustainability opportunities for their organizations, and how to leverage them as a source of competitive advantage
- Understand the business case for sustainability and the necessity for innovative organizational models that create positive social and ecological impact e.g. Creating Shared Value
- Develop their leadership, specifically the capacity to anticipate change and to develop innovative and creative responses that can shape Africa’s future
Programme Delivery
The programme features two intensive one-week modules over a two-month period.
It combines high-impact lectures from leading experts, engaging discussions, real-world case studies, and guest presentations with practical field visits. Executives will tackle live supply chain challenges through team-based projects, guided by faculty, to develop actionable solutions.
Additionally, the programme includes strategic workshops and exclusive networking sessions, fostering valuable interactions with industry peers and thought leaders. This dynamic approach enables executives to enhance their professional networks, exchange innovative ideas, and implement cutting-edge strategies directly within their organizations.
The mode of delivery is in-person at the SBS campus.
Program Academic Director: Lilac Nachum, Visiting Professor, SBS
Programme Content
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 |
Modules
| Module | Description | Key Learning Objectives |
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| 1. Supply chains as a source of competitive advantage | This module focuses on supply chains as a source of competitive advantage and improved performance |
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| 2. The Make or Buy decision in the context of supply chains | The decision what to do in-house and what to buy or outsource to a third party as defining the scope and nature of firms supply chain |
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| 3. Designing supply chains on local, regional, and global scales | The choice between different geographic scales for the distribution of value-creating activities in supply chains |
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| 4. Establishing and managing relationships with suppliers and subcontractors | The selection of suppliers and subcontractors and frameworks for managing the relationships with them |
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| 5. Managing risk, and building resilience into the design of supply chains | Designing supply chains that are resilient to political, economic, and natural risk, and building resiliency into supply chains. |
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| 6. Managing GVCs ethically: reputational consequences | Designing and managing sustainable supply chains along multiple sustainability dimensions |
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| 7. Digitizing supply chains | Digital revolution in supply chain management, and how businesses can use technologies to improve supply chains’ efficiency |
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| 8. Managing logistical challenges in supply chains in practice | The design and execution of the logistics of supply chains and how logistics and integrated supply chain can contribute to firm competitiveness |
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| 9. Managing supply chains in Africa: Africa GVCs in the green economy | Working with global and local partners as suppliers; Environmental sustainability in GVCs |
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| 10. Managing supply chains in Africa: African firms as builders of supply chains | Africa-specific challenges related to building and managing supply chains to improve competitive performance |
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Key Details
Date: 14 – 25 October 2024
Cost: Kes 150,000 (all-inclusive)
Mode of delivery: Face-to-Face (in-person)
For more information, write to Arthur on
- Email: akasina@strathmore.edu or eepolicy@strathmore.edu.
- Tel: +254 (0) 703 034 580.
- Cell: +254 (0) 722 545 400.
