Supply Chain Management Micro-Credential

Why Consider A Supply Chain Management Micro-Credential?

Supply Chain Management represents some of the fastest growing career fields nationwide with the global Supply Chain job market expected to grow over 11% from 2020-2027.  Supply Chain is a function of every organization so the potential for career growth in this field is exponential.

This micro-credential in Supply Chain Management is designed to provide individuals with a broad understanding of the primary functions and coordination of areas ranging from:

• 采购、
• 库存控制
• 仓库管理
• 操作,
• 生产和
• 运输

Who Should Consider A Supply Chain Management Micro-Credential?

GCC’s Supply Chain Management Micro-Credential provides valuable groundwork for:

• Employed individuals who need supply chain management skills to raise their current level of job performance and/or to advance their career
• Entrepreneurs developing a new business or planning an expansion
• Individuals seeking to change their career or those planning to enter the workplace

学习 & 技能发展

The Supply Chain Management Micro-Credential is comprised of four courses: Transportation and Distribution Management (BLM212), Operations and Production Management (BLM223), Intro to Purchasing and Supply Chain Management (BLM234) and Intro to Inventory and Warehouse Management (BLM245).

Topics covered in these four courses include:

• Understand the competitive advantage the purchasing function can provide an organization.
• Evaluate domestic versus international business practices (language barriers, 文化差异, 法律, 货币估值, 通关, 等.).
• Explain the strategic versus tactical functionality of purchasing to influence the organization; product flow, 未来趋势, 库存控制, 仓库, 等.
• Calculate and evaluate inventory associated metrics (turnover, 持有成本, 填充率, 出库成本, 等.
• Use decision making tools such as “Reorder Point Quantity” AND “Economic Order Quantity” to increase inventory and warehouse efficiencies.
• Understand how to manage on-going warehouse operations issues (safety, 人体工程学, 人员配备, 安全, 等.).
• Analyze tradeoffs associated with mode and carrier selection; carrier 操作, 成本, 货物尺寸, 重量, 处理特点, 服务水平, 规则, 规定等.
• Manage the various attributes associated with providing timely, 成本效益, and efficient 运输 and distribution from the point of conversion to an intermediate party or end user.
• 学习战略概念, and qualitative and quantitative tools used in managing the areas of 生产和 operations; site location, 预测, 容量规划, 周期时间, 质量, 等.
• Develop critical thinking to understand the interactions between Operations and Production management to achieve core objectives; productivity, 竞争力, 盈利能力, 等.

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This micro-credential is beneficial to organizations seeking to manage and controlling the efficient, 成本效益 flow and storage of materials to meet or exceeding customers’ requirements.  在这个节目中, these are all taken into consideration alongside inventory levels, 材料处理, 仓库, 包装, 运输 and customer service with the ultimate intent of minimizing 成本 while maximizing outcomes.

This credential can serve to support an organization’s promotion and/or succession plan by providing focused, short-term training to new or transitioning employees.

整体, this credential helps employers identify internal or external job candidates who have the required skills.