Supply Chain Innovation: How Technology Can Create a Sustainable Future Course - University of Twente

Understand how new technologies can make supply chains more sustainable and learn how to deal with today's trends.

Why join the course?

Every product that we use today is the result of a supply chain - a complex series of steps that turn raw materials into the final products we use and everything related to this. Managing these supply chains has become more and more a challenge, especially with all modern technologies and today's trends. The 24-hour economy, fast delivery of goods to your home, wanting to have customized products and of course, the focus on sustainability are a few of these trends.

When would you like to start?

Start straight away and learn at your own pace. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.

• Available now

Who will you learn with?

Who developed the course?

University of Twente

As a young and entrepreneurial university in the Netherlands, the University of Twente prepares young people to tackle the grand challenges the world will be facing during the coming decades.

Syllabus

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:

• Describe the key trends in supply chain innovation.
• Explain in their own words the role of information and communication technology in supply chain innovation.
• Discuss the impact of innovative information and communication technology in a clear and substantiated way.
• Reflect on supply chain innovation in different application areas, as for example logistic service providers and the construction industry.

Who is the course for?

The supply chain is a cross-disciplinary area. In this course, we give a broad overview rather than focusing on detailed quantitative/mathematical or ICT skills. Although we’ll challenge you to perform some basic modelling and technology activities, the focus is on thinking supply chain and recognizing the impact of ICT so that you can be an innovator in this area and a driver of change. The key to a good supply chain manager is his/her ability to think across company borders and functional domains. In addition, being interested in both business and technology is essential.

This course is aimed at professionals and students in disciplines such as ICT, operations, marketing, finance,.. who wish to learn more about supply chain management. Supply chain management and operations professionals and students that want to learn from about new trends and technologies can also benefit from the course. As we are all end customers of supply chains and the impact of supply chains on our world is enormous, many of us wish to know what is happening behind the scene. You are all invited to join!