Project Management and Supply Chain Simulation This one-day workshop, offered through the Integrated Supply Chain Management Program at SLU’s Center for Supply Chain Excellence, introduces participants to core project management principles through an interactive supply chain simulation. Working in teams, participants experience how communication, coordination, and data-driven decision making impact supply chain performance. They analyze simulation results, propose improvements, and test revised scenarios.
The workshop also prepares teams to select and complete a real-world process improvement project aligned with the program’s timeline. Key learning outcomes include: executing a computer-based multicycle supply chain simulation; identifying and resolving operational issues; forming and evaluating project teams and project ideas; understanding the four phases of a project; and applying essential project management tools for planning and execution.
Finance for Supply Chain Professionals This one-day workshop explains how integrated supply chain practices enhance a company’s financial performance. Because supply chain implementation demands significant financial and human investment—and directly influences functions such as purchasing, manufacturing, logistics, and distribution—professionals must understand how their decisions affect financial and income statements. The workshop emphasizes the importance of establishing strong supply chain fundamentals before adopting costly technologies. Participants examine key financial metrics, cash-flow drivers, and the flow of financial information across supply chain partners.
Topics include core supply chain principles, characteristics of leading performers, fundamentals of income and financial statements, profitability measures such as ROI and ROA, return on equity, and a bankruptcy model.
Betting on Uncertain Demand This course addresses the challenges caused by uncertain demand and demonstrates why traditional forecasting alone cannot resolve supply shortages, surpluses, or excessive operating costs. Rather than relying on precise predictions—which are inherently inaccurate—the course introduces decision-making methods that incorporate demand variability and help organizations hedge against uncertainty. Concepts apply to tactical, operational, and strategic decisions across the supply chain.
Participants explore how to balance inventory levels, reduce supply-demand mismatch costs, and establish appropriate service levels. Key learning outcomes include: shifting from single-point forecasts to probability-based views of demand; using underage and overage cost structures to determine optimal order or production quantities; leveraging reactive capacity to mitigate mismatches; and enhancing service performance by evaluating holding and back-order cost tradeoffs.
Managing Variability in Supply Chain This course examines how variability—ranging from routine demand fluctuations to major disruptions—creates mismatches between supply and demand and affects performance across the entire supply chain. Participants learn how variability influences both simple operations and complex supply chain networks, and they explore strategies to mitigate its impact in order to enhance responsiveness and profitability. The content is relevant for professionals at all organizational levels and across both manufacturing and service sectors.
Key topics include supply chain performance measurement, the effects of variability on operational flow, and methods for reducing or buffering variability. Participants gain an understanding of critical performance metrics; how variability affects work-in-process, flow rates, and flow times; why high utilization amplifies these effects; and how tactics such as inventory, capacity, time buffers, and variability pooling can improve performance.
Supply Chain Simulation This redesigned one-day supply chain simulation replaces the former two-day analytics module to deliver a more practical, high-impact learning experience. Participants deepen their understanding of core supply chain and operations frameworks and immediately apply them within a data-rich, interactive simulation modeled on contemporary supply chain environments. They see firsthand how operational decisions affect cost, service, capacity, and inventory, and they build confidence in managing trade-offs using real-time performance feedback.
The enhancement reflects participant feedback and evolving employer expectations, emphasizing industry relevance, applied learning, and leadership development. By centering the module on simulation-based practice, the experience strengthens the connection between classroom concepts and real-world execution.
AI in Supply Chain and Workshop Beginning in Spring 2026, the ISCM program will introduce a one-day “AI in Supply Chain” module to equip supply chain leaders with practical, accessible knowledge of artificial intelligence, machine learning, generative AI, and prompt engineering. Led by the Center for Supply Chain Excellence, the module focuses on real-world applications across sourcing, planning, logistics, operations, and risk.
Participants gain foundational AI/ML understanding, exposure to current industry use cases, an introduction to generative AI and large language models, essential prompt-engineering skills, hands-on practice with supply-chain scenarios, and guidance on responsible and ethical AI use. This addition strengthens the program’s emphasis on industry relevance and applied learning, builds future-ready capabilities, and requires no technical background.
Price:
$595.00