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IMD: Strategies for Supply Chain Digitalization

Identify opportunities to transform your supply chain. Learn online with a globally recognized business school.

Identify opportunities to transform your supply chain. Learn online with a globally recognized business school.

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5 weeks
6–8 hours per week
Starts Mar 12, 2025
Enroll by Mar 18, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

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5 weeks
6–8 hours per week
Starts Mar 12, 2025
Enroll by Mar 18, 2025
Instructor-paced
Instructor-led on a course schedule

About this Course

Emerging supply chain and last mile logistics technology is a major source of competitive advantage. Now that more efficient digital solutions have become available, companies can make greater improvements in supply chain performance. Combining digital applications with operational changes helps yield significant performance improvements that transform the supply chain.

The Strategies for Supply Chain Digitalization online program from the Institute for Management Development (IMD) will help you identify opportunities to streamline and optimize your business supply chain. Over five weeks, you’ll discover the best way to adapt your organization to new technologies and examine the digital logistics available to support a customer-centric supply chain, from strategic sourcing to production. Guided by Carlos Cordon, Professor of Strategy and Supply Chain Management, you’ll explore efficient supply chain network design operations and how to address changing customer needs. Walk away with a roadmap to digitally transform your supply chain.

This program will appeal to logistics, transport management, warehousing, procurement, and supply chain professionals seeking a better understanding of the opportunities afforded by digital initiatives in this sector. It’s particularly relevant to business professionals in the retail, wholesale, and manufacturing sectors. These roles include, but are not limited to, operations, project management, consultancy, business development, sales, engineering, and entrepreneurship.

The Strategies for Supply Chain Digitalization online program from the Institute for Management Development (IMD) is accredited by the International Supply Chain Education Alliance (ISCEA). ISCEA is the global leader in supply chain education, certification, and recognition programs. By completing this program, learners will receive globally recognized skills in the supply chain occupation, networking opportunities with like-minded individuals, and discounted fees for Certified Professional in Logistics Management (CPLM) certification. For more information on the benefits of taking this ISCEA-accredited program, click here.

Please note that GetSmarter (part of edX) and IMD bear no responsibility for the claiming of these benefits with ISCEA. The onus, therefore, falls on you to do so.

IMD is a triple-accredited academic institution, with the Financial Times ranking it first for its open programs nine years in a row. IMD attributes its success to its unique “Real Learning. Real Impact” approach. Based in Switzerland and Singapore, IMD is led by expert and diverse faculty who use their insights, tools, and perspectives to prepare learners for the future of business. As an independent academic institution with a global reach, IMD strives to educate ambitious individuals and organizations worldwide.

By taking this program, you have the opportunity to accelerate your career with the IMD Digital Excellence Diploma. Customize your learning journey with 15 days of programs that are relevant to your digital needs and pass an exam to earn the diploma. See the programs here , and discover how participants are customizing their diploma.


Course curriculum

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Learn to apply digital initiatives to your supply chain as you work through the weekly modules of this online program.

Orientation module: Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1: Digital logistics for a customer-centric supply chain

Module 2: Digital transformation in production

Module 3: Managing strategic sourcing in a digital supply chain

Module 4: End-to-end planning and optimization in the digital supply chain

Module 5: Transforming digital supply chain strategy

About the certificate

Create a strategic plan to optimize your supply chain and earn an official certificate of completion from the Institute for Management Development (IMD).

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with your digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the program handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the program.

Successful completion of this online program counts towards your IMD alumni status. Find out more.

Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you digitally upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Some facts about the subject

50%

The percentage of global product-centric enterprises that will have invested in real-time transportation visibility platforms by 2023.

Gartner (Feb, 2021).

11.2%

The predicted compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of the global supply-chain management market from 2020 to 2027.

Business Wire (Aug, 2020).

Why choose GetSmarter?

GetSmarter, an edX partner, delivers career-relevant, fully supported, and expert-led online courses from the world's leading universities and institutions. As an online learning expert with over 15 years' experience, GetSmarter leverages long-standing expertise in market research, data analysis, and business insights to ensure that you gain the skills critical to career growth.