SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT:
LEADING WITH AI AND
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
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made headway, many have not and face the reality of
becoming uncompetitive in regional and global markets. How
can you turn your supply chain into a lasting competitive
advantage? Dr. Maria Jesús Saénz, Director of the Digital
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Supply Chain Transformation Lab at the MIT Center for
Transportation and Logistics, offers up a proven framework:
Most organizations recognize the need to digitize their supply chain efforts but lack the capabilities to implement
them. This six-week online program focuses on developing three core capabilities:
1. End-to-end visibility of the supply chain (from raw material to product delivery)
2. Analytics and artificial intelligence (for accurate procurement forecasting and commitments to the end customer)
3. Reinventing supply chains through digitalization (using the Digital Supply Chain Framework)
PRICE DURATION
USD 2,800 6 weeks
REDUCE COSTS BY 50% 4-6 hours per week
AND GROW REVENUE BY 20%
Transforming the supply chain digitally
can lead to a 50% reduction in process
costs and a 20% increase in revenue.
-MIT Digital Supply Chain Transformation Lab
Program Highlights
Special faculty session on why digital supply chains fail
Insights from renowned MIT faculty and experts
Case studies, discussions, and application exercises offering
multiple pathways to learning
A comprehensive overview of supply chain digitalization, which can create
your competitive advantage
Successful examples of digital transformation in supply chains
driving growth and efficiency
A certificate from MIT xPRO to recognize your skills and success
Services Offered by Emeritus
Live weekly office Personalized feedback,
hours with learning support, and network
facilitators development
Who Is This Program For?
This six-week program is designed for professionals across the following roles:
Early and Mid-Career Operations, Logistics, and Supply Chain Professionals: Access new strategies
and tools that impart efficiency and resilience and reimagine the supply chain as a source of
competitive advantage.
Business and Functional Leaders in Operations, Strategy, and Logistics: Understand how every link
in the supply chain can serve as a lever for growth, innovation, resilience, and market leadership.
Strategy and Business Consultants: Develop a mindset that spans all business processes in order
to facilitate collaboration, optimization, and performance improvement for clients.
According to a 2021 McKinsey survey of global supply
chain leaders, digital transformation of supply chain
has raised the requirement for digital skills, but just
1% of organizations currently have the necessary
competence.
(Source: McKinsey & Co., 2021)
Key Takeaways
Over the course of this six-week program, you will examine the key capabilities needed to create and execute digital
transformations within your organization and within your broader ecosystem of vertical and horizontal partners.
• Champion the Digital Supply Chain Framework to create a strategic road map for digital supply
chain transformation in your organization.
• Examine the characteristics of end-to-end (E2E) visibility in supply chains, and understand why it is critical and
how to develop this core capability.
• Explore the myriad of ways that analytics can turbocharge your supply chain initiatives and help solve
common problems.
• Build the confidence to spearhead AI-centric solutions in your supply chain, including human-machine teaming.
• Master the interaction between strategy, technology, processes, and organization.
• Build greater resilience and preparedness for future disruptions.
• Reduce costs and improve agility and the overall efficiency of the supply chain function.
Key Topics
• Resilience in global supply chains
• A framework for digital supply chain transformation
• End-to-end (E2E) visibility as a digital and supply chain capability
• The truths about data
• Data integration and the cycle of data analytics in SCM
• Human-machine teaming in AI-driven supply chains
• Digital platforms, digital twins, automation, and servitization
• Road map for successful digital supply chain transformation
Program Schedule
Module 1
Foundations in Supply Chain Management
Build your understanding of modern supply chain management practices, and learn about the various drivers
and capabilities needed to build a resilient supply chain.
Define important terminology of the modern supply chain sector
Identify sources of complexity across both products and customers in supply chains
Adopt planning tools that help deal with uncertainty
Identify risks and map out sources of vulnerabilities within your system
Explore how to transform supply chains through collaboration with partners in your ecosystem
Module 2
Framework for Digital Supply Chain Transformation
The Digital Supply Chain Framework, created by Professor Saénz, helps us create a road map for reaching
our digitalization goals, starting with a vision. As a proven approach used by many leading companies, the
DSC Framework guides us away from common pitfalls and toward solutions that balance the trade-offs
among strategy, technology, processes, and organizational needs.
Realize the importance of defining the vision for your supply chain transformation
Identify the trade offs involved and the common mistakes made when digitally transforming a supply chain
Module 3
End-to-End Supply Chain Visibility
E2E supply chain visibility is a critical success factor for achieving supply chain excellence, allowing businesses to
communicate, solve problems, and provide service to partners and customers along the entire chain of events.
Define important terminology of the modern supply chain sector
Identify sources of complexity across both products and customers in supply chains
Adopt planning tools that help deal with uncertainty
Identify risks and map out sources of vulnerabilities within your system
Explore how to transform supply chains through collaboration with partners in your ecosystem
Program Schedule
Module 4
Analytics and Machine Learning in Supply Chains
Draw on the many analytic tools that maximize data ROI for supply chains.
Understand the cycle of data analytics, from training the data to processing and interpreting the findings.
Distinguish among the three different types of analytics—descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive—and their
applications in supply chain management.
Explore supply chain applications for three different types of machine learning: supervised, unsupervised,
and reinforcement.
Module 5
AI Applications in Supply Chains
Deploying AI-centric solutions successfully requires distinct capabilities within the organization and the
realization that AI is dynamic and still evolving.
Learn to decipher what AI is and is not and what types of applications are providing the best returns
Learn a framework for the successful implementation of AI projects, which was developed by the MIT digital
supply chain research team
Examine the factors that help formulate human-machine teaming strategies in AI-driven supply chains
Module 6
Emerging Trends in Supply Chain Management
Gain insights into why digital supply chain strategies fail, and gather future-ready strategies for creating a
flexible, agile, resilient supply chain ecosystem that endows your competitive advantage.
Distinguish between the practices of automation and augmentation
Explore servitization, the process whereby a company shifts from a product-centric to a service-centric business
model and logic.
Examine the strategic role of digital twins in warehouses and distribution centers
Learn how digital platforms produce "network effects," a phenomenon whereby a product or service gains more
value as more people use it, and identify the key elements of horizontal collaboration in digital platforms
Activities and Assignments
Over the course of this six-week program, you will examine the key capabilities needed to create and execute digital
transformations within your organization and within your broader ecosystem of vertical and horizontal partners.
Analyze the sources of complexity in supply chains
Discuss the implications of digital threads as a representation of end-to-end supply chains
Evaluate the key levers and actors that have to be activated for successful digital supply chains
Discuss the nature of a supply chain problem and corresponding analytical applications
Identify the key configurations of human-machine teaming in AI-driven supply chains
Describe why digital supply chain strategies fail
CASE STUDIES:
Cisco Systems: The Supply Chain Management Casebook: Comprehensive Coverage
and Best Practices in Supply Chain Risk Management
Dell: Digital Supply Chain Transformation: Aligning Operations and Strategy
TetraPak: Activating a Digitally Enabled Supply Chain as a Competitive Advantage
FEATURED EXAMPLES:
Explore a variety of use cases that illustrate successful digital transformations, including:
Walmart Schneider Electric DHL
Learning Methods
World-renowned faculty from MIT bridge academic research and real-world application, providing an unparalleled
learning environment. The MIT xPRO approach includes:
Try-it activities that reinforce the learning and apply to real-world scenarios
Setting clear expectations so that learners know exactly what they are supposed to do to earn credit
for completion
Building a community of learning and inquiry and fostering critical and creative thinking through
social learning
Weekly knowledge checks, self-study learning activities, and moderated discussions designed to provide
opportunities for feedback
Program Faculty
Dr. Maria Jesus Saenz is the Director of the Digital
Supply Chain Transformation Lab at the MIT
Center for Transportation and Logistics. Dr. Saenz's
primary research examines new collaborative
paradigms that arise while implementing new
digital technologies in supply chains. Her research
domains are multidimensional collaboration,
digital supply chain capabilities, and AI in supply
chains. The Lab applies quantitative research
methodologies in order to assess how data-driven
ecosystems create value. Dr. Saenz also serves as
Executive Director of the MIT Supply Chain
Management Master Programs.
Dr. Saenz teaches courses across all levels on digital
transformation, supply chain management,
collaboration, risks, resilience, and project
management. Dr. Saenz is certified in Participant-
Centered Learning by Harvard Business School. She
received the Outstanding Doctoral Award for her
Ph.D. in Manufacturing and Design Engineering from
the University of Zaragoza, where she had previously
obtained her M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering.
Dr. Saenz has also led various international research
projects for the European Commission, as well as
supply chain management innovation projects for
companies including Coca-Cola Femsa, P&G,
Carrefour, Clariant, Dell, DHL, and Caterpillar. She is
co-author of more than 100 publications, including
MARIA JESÚS SAÉNZ books and articles in leading international journals
such as Forbes, Financial Times, and Supply Chain
Executive Director, MIT SCM Masters Management Review. Her knowledge transfer work
Programs Director, MIT Digital Supply has received 15 awards, and her research has been
Chain Transformation cited in the media.
Certificate
Get recognized. Upon successful completion of this
program, MIT xPRO grants a certificate of completion
to participants and 2.40 Continuing Education Units
(CEUs). This program is graded as a pass or fail;
participants must receive 75% to pass and obtain
the certificate of completion.
After successful completion of the program, your
verified digital certificate will be emailed to you, at no
additional cost, in the name you used when registering
for the program. All certificate images are for
illustrative purposes only and may be subject to
change at the discretion of MIT.
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