September 23-25, 2008
$2400
Registration is limited to 36 participants. Register now to secure your seat!
Listen to a podcast of an interview with Dr. Choi on "how strategic sourcing became the golden goose".
The traditional concept of simply making products and delivering service is obsolete. Companies are now expected to become creators of value. A relentless focus on time, cost, and quality has heightened the need to coordinate and cooperate with business partners around the world in order to meet and exceed customers' needs and wants.
Essentials of Supply and Logistics Management focuses on an integrated approach to managing resources and partnerships in order to meet customers' needs on a timely basis, with relevant and high quality products, produced and delivered in a cost-effective manner. We also will examine how advances in information technology have enabled firms to develop innovations in products and processes and changed the structure of industries, the strategies of firms competing in these industries, and the organizational forms and management processes needed to support these strategies.
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Essentials of Supply and Logistics Management is designed for decision makers for sourcing, processing, and distributing goods and materials. If you are a procurement manager, engineer, operations manager, logistics manager, or you are involved in the movement of goods and materials, then this program is ideal for you.
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By attending the Essentials of Supply and Logistics Management, you will:
- Learn how leading organizations integrate sourcing and supply management in order to implement strategic initiatives;
- Learn how to apply different supplier relationship strategies depending on changes in markets, commodities and suppliers;
- Conceptualize a forward looking system that emphasizes continuous improvement, links a company’s strategy to its core business activities, and enables a comprehensive management of the resources consumed by all supply chain partners;
- Understand the design of logistics networks and the selection of providers to operate the network;
- Learn a structured process for managing risk that includes the planning, assessment, handling, and monitoring of risk;
- Learn how organizations manage the distribution of products to reach echelons downstream in the supply chain;
- Learn how to apply different distribution strategies depending on products, channels, and transportation considerations;
- Apply the lessons from the program in a role play simulation that will highlight systems dynamics, and supply chain risks and opportunities;
- Create an individual action plan for immediate application of the lessons learned in the program.
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The highly interactive classroom discussions are designed to engage the active learner. Each faculty member brings a unique expertise, which collectively focuses on the integration of the logistics and supply chain. Various topics in supply chain and logistics management will be discussed during the first two and a half days of the program. During the afternoon of the third day, you will role play in a simulation designed to incorporate the lessons from the entire program.
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Thomas Y. Choi is a Professor of Supply Chain Management and the John G. & Barbara A. Bebbling Professor in Business at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He is the Doctoral Program Coordinator for the Supply Chain Management Department. Dr. Choi is currently studying the supply base rationalization, second- and third-tier suppliers, supplier-supplier relationships, supply chain disintermediation, and triadic relationships within supply networks. Professor Choi received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering in 1992 from the University of Michigan.
Joseph R. Carter, D.B.A, C.P.M., is the Avnet Professor in the Department of Supply Chain Management, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. Dr. Carter holds a D.B.A. degree in Operations Management from the Boston University Graduate School of Management and is recognized as a Certified Purchasing Manager by the National Association of Purchasing Management. Carter's research contribution encompasses three major content areas: buyer and supplier communication processes and information exchange systems, international sourcing and supply chain management issues, and total quality management systems.
Kevin Dooley is a Professor and a Dean's Council of 100 Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Supply Chain Management at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He holds affiliate appointments with the School of Health Administration and Policy, the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, and the Department of Industrial Engineering. He has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1987. He has published over 100 research articles and co-authored an award winning book, "Organizational Change and Innovation Processes" (Oxford Press).
Arnold Maltz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Supply Chain Management in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He is also Director of Research at the Warehousing Education and Research Council. Dr. Maltz has done research in outsourcing, third party logistics, and transborder logistics systems, and he is currently investigating distribution customer service as well as issues in supply chain organization. Professor Maltz received his Ph.D. in Marketing/Logistics at the Ohio State University in 1992.
Buck K. W. Pei is Associate Dean of the W. P. Carey School of Business and Professor of Accountancy and Information Management at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Accounting from University of North Texas in 1986. Professor Pei's current research interests include strategic cost management, strategic information systems, performance measurement on supply-chain, and behavioral decision-making. His current teaching interests are in the areas of strategic innovations in cost management, supply-chain, and E-business. He is currently the Director of ASU MBA program in China that delivers a high-tech MBA curriculum to managers of US multinational firms such as Motorola, and the Coordinator of MSIM/MBA and MAIS programs at Arizona State University.
Elliot Rabinovich is an Associate Professor and a Dean's Council of 100 Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Supply Chain Management at the W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. He received his Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering from the School of Engineering of Antioquia and his Ph.D. in Logistics-Supply Chain Management from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. His research centers on the role of e-commerce in the definition of strategies and performance in supply chain management and on implementation decisions involving information systems and inventory management. His research has been recognized with the 2005 E. Grosvenor Plowman Award and has been published in over 20 articles in California Management Review, Decision Sciences, Journal of Business Logistics, Journal of Operations Management, MIT-Sloan Management Review, and others. He has received several awards for his teaching and has published several teaching cases in the area of e-commerce supply chains.
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- Managing Supply Relationships
- Developing Supply Strategies
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Supply Chain Innovations in Cost Management and Information Technology
- Supply Chain Risk Management
- Logistics in Supply Chains
- Retailing on the Downstream Side of the Supply Chain
- Supply Chain Dynamics
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At the time of registration, you may pay the program fee of $2400 by credit card or request that an invoice be sent to you or your company for payment. The program fee includes all instructional material, lunches, and breaks. Classes will be held on the Tempe campus of Arizona State University. Please refer to the list of local hotels for lodging options.
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