Sustainable Supply Chain Management online short course

About the course

 The University of Cambridge Sustainable Supply Chain Management online short course takes a deep dive into the environmental, social, and technological facets of supply chain management to help organisations build resilient and adaptive value chains in an increasingly volatile and disrupted global environment. Through this course, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of the industry's latest developments and disruptive changes, enabling them to respond strategically to these shifts, optimise logistics and procurement and embed sustainability, circularity, and business model innovation into core business processes. Furthermore, the course includes a deep dive into the impact of value chain activities across interconnected environmental, social, and economic systems. With particular relevance to industry and manufacturing, the course also explores how these challenges and opportunities extend across interconnected sectors and global systems.

Is the supply chain management course for you?

This supply chain management online course caters to professionals who want to develop their capabilities and adapt their organisation’s value chain strategies in response to accelerating global sustainability and market shifts. It can be advantageous for management members who wish to understand how to integrate agile and resilient approaches into their supply chains to benefit their firms, whether they have experience in logistics and supply chain management or are just interested in upgrading their skills.

Additionally, this course is pertinent to sustainability experts, supply chain managers, strategic professionals, consultants, and individuals employed in logistics and inventory management roles.

This course can provide a forward-looking perspective on how roles in these areas are evolving, supporting professionals who are looking to deepen their expertise or transition into more strategic supply chain and value chain role.

CISL Connect: Online live sessions

CISL has developed three bonus CISL Connect: Online Live Sessions for all students joining any of our ten business sustainability leadership courses. Through these sessions, you’ll get direct access to CISL's leading voices on today’s most urgent business topics – competitiveness, AI and resilience.  This format gives you the chance to connect, collaborate and exchange ideas with a far broader global network of professionals beyond your cohort.

What will set you apart

On completion of this course, you’ll walk away with:

1. Deepen your understanding of technological trends and the role of technology in transforming and integrating supply chains to improve transparency and resilience
2. The knowledge and foresight to manage the risks of operating in volatile, uncertain, and complex environments to create resilient and sustainable supply chains.
3. A deeper understanding of global supply chains, and how to leverage sustainability and long-term value creation within your own supply chain to improve your organisation's commercial success and long-term resilience.
4. An understanding of how circular economy principles and business model innovation can unlock new forms of value across supply chains and networks
5. Access to the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) alumni network.
6. Unlimited access to edX’s Career Engagement Network, offering you exclusive resources and events to support your professional journey and drive your career forward.

Course Convenors

The design of this online course is guided by CISL faculty and industry experts who will share their experience and in-depth subject knowledge with you throughout the course.

• Martin Roberts- Former Director of Digital Learning, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
• Ian Ellison- Senior Associate, the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership

Sustainable supply chain management online short course

MODULE 1: Essentials of supply chain management

MODULE 2: Managing supply chains in a changing world

MODULE 3: Practical implications for supply chain management

MODULE 4: Designing efficient, resilient supply chains

MODULE 5: Supply chain analytics

MODULE 6: Innovation and supply chain technology

MODULE 7: Supply chain and collaboration partnerships

MODULE 8: Rewiring your supply chain

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Delivered in collaboration with GetSmarter

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