Supply Chain Management Certificate

Improve your learning experience and your company's bottom line as you put theory into practice. Earning a certificate in supply chain management while you work full-time allows you to apply the knowledge you gain to your current job. With two certificate programs, Graduate and Professional, you'll get to choose which is the best fit for you.

A certificate in supply chain management aims to provide you with foundational and advanced knowledge on how to tackle, resolve and manage a myriad of complex problems and issues that confront supply chain managers. These problems and issues arise within the boundaries of an organization as well as across organizations, cutting across traditional domains of (a) logistics or transportation, (b) manufacturing or operations, and (c) purchasing or sourcing. All courses are taught by standing faculty in the W. P. Carey School’s Department of Supply Chain Management, which is consistently ranked in the top five nationally by U.S. News & World Report.

Participants who successfully complete this program will receive credit for continuing education that may be applied toward ISM CPSM recertification, C.P.M. recertification, and/or A.P.P. reaccreditation program requirements. Note: ISM does not endorse, certify or sponsor this program or its content.

Course Descriptions

View a video about the certificate program and its benefits from Professor Reynold Byers. You can also get more information on the individual course description pages and watch a course introduction.

Operations and Supply Chain Management
Covers contemporary management issues, including environmental, project and supply chain management; new product development; quality control; and TQM.

Strategic Procurement
Learn to apply principles, philosophies and processes of supply management to the purchasing management process on a global basis, with focus on the continuous improvement of the purchasing management system. (Prerequisite: Operations and Supply Chain Management)

Logistics in the Supply Chain
Focuses on critical issues for customer perception of supply chain performance, including inventory planning, transportation, warehousing, information technology and integrated logistics service. (Prerequisite: Operations and Supply Chain Management)

Supplier Management and Negotiation
Topics include selecting, developing and executing appropriate sourcing strategies and processes. (Prerequisite: Operations and Supply Chain Management)

Supply Chain Design and Cost Management
Strategic design and development of supply chains, with focus on cost-management tools applied to supply chain design and supplier management. (Prerequisite: successful completion of four other courses in the certificate program)