Expand Your Supply Chain and Logistics Expertise

Management Series for Mid-Career Supply Chain Professionals

Our Supply Chain Management Series courses are tailored for mid-career supply chain professionals seeking to deepen their expertise. Choose from a variety of one-and-a-half to four-day instructor-led courses, or opt for self-paced learning to gain comprehensive knowledge on specific topics. The courses are delivered by esteemed experts from both academia and industry.

Program Structure

Our program offers several series and certificate programs, each consisting of courses grouped by subject area. While many students aim to complete a certificate, enrollment in an entire certificate program is not mandatory. All courses provide Continuing Education Units (CEUs), certificates, and are formally recorded in the Georgia Tech student records system.

Our public course schedule is open-enrollment, so all are invited to participate. Participants come from all industry segments and from six continents. Most open enrollment courses take place online/virtually and we occasionally hold courses on  the Georgia Tech campus in Atlanta or Savannah.

All public course schedule courses are also available as custom courses for companies wanting to have tailored, private programs (or hybrid courses that are tailored to an anchor company and then also opened up to a wider audience). Custom courses can be offered nearly anywhere with proper facilities.

Next Generation (NG) Series

Unlock the future of supply chain and logistics with our new cutting-edge courses designed to equip professionals with the skills and knowledge needed to thrive in a rapidly evolving industry.

Supply Chain Analytics Professional (SCA) Certificate

Designed for experienced business professionals who perform (or want to perform) data analyses of any form in the area of supply chain. Content is tailored to those who seek to get more from their supply chain data, people with tools that are no longer enough, and those want to become a change agent who tackles strategic supply chain goals and performs leading edge analytics projects to address the full complexity of their organizations supply chains.

Take all four courses in the Supply Chain Analytics Professional (SCA) series within four years to receive your certificate. These courses can also be used as electives for the SCM certificate.

Distribution Operations Analysis and Design (DOAD) Certificate

Formulated to arm distribution operations professionals to stand out in their careers as experts in facility operations improvement. Emphasis is placed on topics such as: Systematic Methodologies to Facility Layout; Quantitative Analysis of Needed Facility Capabilities; Lean Warehousing Concepts; and Rigorous Tradeoff Analysis of Labor, Equipment, and Facility Alternatives. Develop critical skills needed in both designing new facilities and reengineering a wide variety of existing distribution facility types.

Must take a minimum of 4 courses and a minimum of 5.2 CEUS to earn the DOAD Certificate. Required DOAD courses include: Engineering the Warehouse; Lean Warehousing; and either Warehousing/Distribution Center Layout OR Warehousing/Distribution Center Layout and Material Handling (Online). Participants may choose one course in the SCM, SDP, PSM or Supply Chain Fundamentals series for their elective.

Supply Chain Management (SCM) Certificate

Developed to provide participants with both a solid cross-domain understanding of supply chain, as well as an opportunity to expand knowledge in specific domains or techniques of interest. Gain essential industry skills to advance your career and start applying practical knowledge, tools, and techniques immediately at your organization. The flexibility of the certificate allows participants to broaden their skills and knowledge base while also achieving a specific noteworthy career accomplishment – obtaining a Georgia Tech Professional Education Certificate. Each course can applied towards earning a Supply Chain Management Certificate.

Must take a minimum of 4 courses and a minimum of 5.2 CEUS to earn the SCM Certificate. Participants may take all 4 courses from SCM, OR choose at least 2 from SCM, plus any 2 remaining courses from the DOAD, SDP, PSM, HHSCM or SCF certificate series.

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Procurement and Supply Management (PSM) Leadership Certificate

The program is designed to prepare sourcing, planning, and procurement professionals to lead their companies in successfully navigating the complexities, risks and rewards of the modern global sourcing environment. Emphasis is placed on topics such as negotiation skills, bid package development, supplier selection and contracting excellence.

Must take a minimum of 4 courses and a minimum of 5.2 CEUS to earn the PSM Certificate. Required courses are Category Management and Sourcing Leadership, Contracting and Legal Oversight and Essentials of Negotiations and Stakeholder Influence. Participants may choose one remaining course from the Supply Chain Fundamentals series, Lean Leadership for the Supply Chain Professional (Online), Lean Warehousing, Warehouse/Distribution Center Layout and Material Handling or Engineering the Warehouse.

Supply and Demand Planning (SDP) Certificate

The program is designed for professionals with broad planning responsibilities, as well as professionals with more focused areas of concern who want to gain a solid understanding of the important techniques, tools, and components associated with integrated supply chain planning.

Must take a minimum of 4 courses and a minimum of 5.2 CEUS to earn the SDP Certificate. Required SDP courses include (Must choose a minimum of 2): World Class Sales and Operations Planning, Integrated Business Planning, and/or Supply Chain Risk Management. Participants may choose elective(s) from the following: Inventory Planning & Management; Inventory Management and Resource Allocation in Supply Chains; Lean Leadership for the SC Professional; Transforming SC Mgt & Performance Analysis; any Supply Chain Fundamentals online course.

Health and Humanitarian Supply Chain Management (HHSCM) Certificate

Designed for practitioners in non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government, industry, and military who are active participants in humanitarian relief operations. Learn new logistics concepts and strategies to help you improve decision making in preparedness, response, and system design through face-to-face instruction and online interactive tools.

Take all three HHSCM courses within three years to receive your Health and Humanitarian Supply Chain Management Certificate.

Take all three courses in the Health and Humanitarian Supply Chain Management (HHSCM) series within three years to receive your certificate. These courses can also be used as electives for the SCM certificate.