Supply Chain Management and Analytics (Coursera)

Offered by Unilever,
Supply Chain Management and Analytics (Coursera)

In the Supply Chain Management and Analytics course, you’ll learn the foundations of supply chain management and how the Supply Chain Analyst role has an impact on the entire supply chain including making smarter, quicker, and more efficient decisions. You’ll focus on the supply chain process, how to use analytics to identify potential opportunities in all aspects of the supply chain, and how to monitor supply chain security risks to help minimize their impact on the entire supply chain.

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Additionally, you’ll explore the future of supply chain and how it's impacted by security and sustainability.
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:
Describe the supply chain components and their importance.
Describe the Supply Chain Analyst role and its impact to the entire supply chain in making smarter, quicker and more efficient decisions.
Recognize how to use analytics to identify potential opportunities on all aspects of the supply chain ensuring cost and resource efficiencies and continual growth.
Use data and the current status of expenses and profitability to understand the financial impact of operations, overall spend, procurement, savings realization, and future outlook.
Monitor supply chain security risks and their impact and adjust overall planning and scheduling accordingly.
Describe the role of the Supply Chain Analysts to assist in meeting sustainability goals.
This course is part of the Unilever Supply Chain Data Analyst Professional Certificate.

Syllabus

Supply chain management fundamentals
In this module, you will learn the entire supply chain management process and the key partners involved. You will also learn the history of supply chain and big events that can have an impact on customer value and you will get to take a look into future trends and technology that may impact the future of supply chain management.

Importance of supply chain planning analytics
In this module, you will learn the importance of supply chain analytics and the analyst's role to align business needs with overall inventory, forecasting, scheduling and planning strategies.

Supply chain analytics in demand planning, scheduling and manufacturing
In this module, you will explore the importance of supply chain analytics and the analyst's role to identify the impact of product throughout the network, provide insightful information to secure the in full and on-time delivery, identify risks that could affect the supply chain and assist management in making decisions and provide opportunities to adjust and align as requirements change.

Supply chain analytics in finance and logistics
In this module, you will focus on the importance of supply chain analytics and the analyst's role to know the current status of expenses and profitability and assist in modeling and reporting on financial impact of operations, overall spend, procurement, savings realization and future outlook. You will also explore warehouse and logistics operations and the impact of demand, capacity, and planning to the supply chain.

Supply chain security and sustainability
In this module, you will focus on the importance of physical and cybersecurity in the Supply Chain and its analytics. You will also learn the importance of monitoring Supply Chain security risks and adjust accordingly to assist management decisions. You will learn the impact of the supply chain network on sustainability goals and will focus on how to use data and analytics to create or participate in process improvement initiatives for supply chain networks.

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