What is the Supply Chain Planning Certificate?
The Supply Chain Planning Certificate Program teaches you the fundamentals of supply chain planning with a focus on synchronized planning.
Synchronized planning is a cross functional approach to planning that engages multiple functional stakeholders working together to align their plans and strategies to create a cohesive and integrated plan that supports your organization goals and objectives.
- Integrate resilience in supply chain management
- Manage risk in supply chains
- Make data-driven decisions
- Strengthen supplier collaboration and relationships
- Prepare for potential disruptions using data and strategic planning
The Supply Chain Planning Certificate enables you to:
- Understand the flow of planning from business plan to execution
- Link business strategy to company plans
- Contribute to production and control activities
- Interpret and manage the master production schedule
- Interpret and manage the material requirements plan
- Determine order and reorder points
- Create a channel tree design for a distribution system
- Identify technologies to support synchronous planning
Supply Chain Planning Certificate
What’s covered in course
The Supply Chain Planning Certificate provides you with the technical knowledge and strategies to use synchronized planning for effective end-product production. A brief overview of the key items you will learn in the course include:
- What is Synchronized Planning?
- Strategic Planning – Business Planning
- Strategic Planning – Demand Planning and S&OP
- Tactical Planning- Master Scheduling/MRP
- Prepare for potential disruptions using data and strategic planning
- Distribution and Logistics Planning
How does the Planning Certificate program work?
The Planning Certificate’s course is a self-paced online program that includes:
- 20 hours of education
- Flashcards, video clips and practice questions to help cultivate a stronger understanding of each topic
- A comprehensive final exam
After passing the exam, receive a certificate and digital badge that you can display on your LinkedIn profile and within your email signature. Additionally, earn 20 certification maintenance points upon program completion.
Please note: ASCM members have lifetime access to their badges; nonmembers can access badges for one year. All learners have lifetime access to their certificates.