Supply Chain Frontiers issue #44
The Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (CLI) is launching a new executive education course this May that focuses on overcoming the challenges of global logistics and supply chain management in Latin America. CLI developed the course with the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics.
A company’s human capital is its most important asset. Developing this asset through education and training is essential if enterprises are to achieve their organizational goals and improve productivity.
This is particularly true in supply chain disciplines, which have expanded over recent years both in terms of their impact on organizations and in the level of expertise required by departmental managers. Supply chain management touches almost every part of an enterprise including its customers, and has become a strategic as well as a tactical resource. Today’s practitioners require expertise in unfamiliar areas such as finance and sustainability. Moreover, they must be able to design and operate global supply chains in volatile markets.
CLI’s new course teaches the latest concepts in supply chain strategy and global logistics. Executives will learn to use tools designed to analyze, evaluate, and improve the efficiency of supply chains.
The four-module course runs from May to August 2012, at several venues in Colombia, as follows.
Module 1: Basic Concepts Update – I
Bogotá: May 7–11
Cali and Medellin: May 14–18 (simultaneously)
Intensity: 40 hours / 8-hour daily sessions (8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
Topics:
- Logistics Introduction
- Forecasts
- Inventories
- Transport
Module 2: Basic Concepts Update – II
Bogotá: June 5–8
Cali and Medellín: June 12–15 (simultaneously)
Intensity: 32 hours / 8-hour daily sessions (8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
Topics:
- Procurement
- Cost to Serve
- Foreign Trade
- SCM and Technology
Module 3: Supply Chain Strategy (with MIT CTL and ZLC researchers)
Bogotá: July 6, 9, and 10
Intensity: 24 hours / 8-hour daily sessions (8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
Topics:
- Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
- Finance and Supply Chain
- Supply Chain Strategy
Module 4: Logistics in Latin America
August
Intensity: 12 hours / 2 hours per country* – virtual sessions
*These sessions will be taught by renowned professors and researchers from universities in the region that make up the CLI Academic Network.
Demand for places on the course is expected to be high, so candidates should apply before April 21, 2012.
For more information please contact Carlos Martínez, Public Relations CLI, cemartinez@logyca.org. T: 57 1 4270999 Ext. 172.