Overview
Key facts
The core focus of this course builds upon your knowledge of strategic and tactical implementation of the lean supply chain, and aims to build you into a lean leader. This is critical in order to navigate through the waters of change management required to successfully execute and sustain the lean supply chain journey. In this course, you will complete a deep dive into the main aspects of lean leadership.
Who Should Attend
The Lean Leadership for the Supply Chain Professional course at the Georgia Institute of Technology is designed for supply chain professionals, logistics professionals, material managers, production control managers, transportation managers, warehousing managers, lean leaders, and purchasing managers.
How You Will Benefit
- Learn how to reduce the total cost of ownership, inventory levels, logistics, and space requirements.
- Discover how to reduce lead time.
- Gain an understanding of how to increase fill rates.
- Improve supplier performance and accountability.
- Improve customer satisfaction and customer relationships.
- Reduce overall organizational and operational waste.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Purpose And Value Alignment
- Traditional Versus Lean Leadership
- The Leader As Student And Teacher
- Process And Value-stream Thinking
- Management Systems
- Using Effective Measurement System
- Visual Management ("Go See" Management)
- Convincing People On Lean Thinking And Dealing With Resistance
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 12 months
- Flexible
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
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Language
Delivered
- Semi-structured
- No Attendance
- Continuous support with feedback on request
- Individual work/assignments (with online group discussions), Online group works/assignments
Disciplines
Leadership View 167 other Short Courses in Leadership in United StatesAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- Access to the content for this course requires you to set up a password for your Georgia Tech (GT) account different from your account and password on this website.
Tuition Fee
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International
600 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 600 USD for the full programme during 12 months. -
National
600 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 600 USD for the full programme during 12 months.