MANAGING THE GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN (MGSC)

Our participants

• Supply-chain, sourcing and operations senior executives
• Cross-company teams in charge of customer-supplier relations
• Business development executives responsible for supply-chain and sustainability improvements

What

Creating winning supply chains has always been hard, but it is increasingly challenging in today’s turbulent markets. Raw material uncertainty, market volatility, new financial and governmental intervention, political instability and increased scrutiny on sustainability are placing extra constraints on efforts to win with supply chains. However, careful planning now can allow you to exit this market in a better position.

Managing the Global Supply Chain (MGSC) can help you to overcome these obstacles, create supply-chain efficiencies, minimize and mitigate global risks, and improve cost structures and profitability.

You will discover how to design smarter interfaces, leverage the power of organizational networks, recognize opportunities for after-market services and manage internal changes needed to make it happen. You will also be exposed to leading-edge practices that have proven effective in improving growth, productivity and efficiency.

You will:

• Consider your own network, choices and opportunities
• Explore uncertainties in your supply chain, including the role of third parties
• Understand the role of complexity in the extended supply chain
• Learn to manage risks and prevent surprises
• Find ways to innovate and collaborate with partners and third parties
• Determine what you might apply when you return to your company

A typical MGSC schedule includes sessions such as:

• Supply-chain portfolios
• Scarcity in customer-supplier relationships
• Procurement risk management
• Time-based competition
• Low-cost competition
• Implementing organizational change
• Balancing business flexibility and standardization

How

MGSC is six days of rigorous learning and intense interactions among peers and Faculty. You will learn from diagnostic tools applied to your own company, international case studies, simulations, benchmarking exercises, and wide-ranging, challenging discussions. You will also learn best practices from the world's most successful, global companies.

Examples of topics covered:

The new face of competition

• Building a network of collaborative partners
• Changing the price/value relationship
• Creating a free flow of information across organizational boundaries
• Competing on the strength of the entire supply chain
  

Strategic value chain design

• Exploiting innovation opportunities along the entire value chain
• Capturing the value of product and process innovation
• Strategic sourcing and capability development

Creating and leveraging supply chain flexibility

• Managing global supply-chain portfolios
• Resilience via redundancy
• Resilience via flexibility derived from information
• Resilience via flexibility derived from suppliers
• Resilience via flexibility derived from culture
• Organizational innovation
  

Matching global demand with available supply

• Using real options to match supply and demand
• Moving from buyer-centric to seller-centric 
• Creating service and coordination capabilities
  

Leading a supply chain turnaround

• Putting customer needs first
• Identifying partners in the chain
• Benchmarking the competition
  

Corporate social responsibility in the supply chain

• Identifying the source of problems
• Consequences of supply-chain-partner misconduct
• Ensuring compliance by supply-chain partners
• Orchestrating desired behaviors from third parties
  

Management of change in complex supply chains

• New forms of organization
• Strategic, political, and cultural issues
• Resistance to change
• Sources of power and influence
• Leveraging the power of organizational networks
  

Our Faculty

Our Faculty members are recognized world authorities in their fields. They divide their time between teaching, research and acting as consultants to international companies. They remain on top of the latest management trends.

You can expect timely, innovative learning activities, materials and content in all IMD programs.

In this section, you will find important information on the program fee, application, invoicing, cancellation and transfer. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our program advisors.

Fee

The program fee (which is mentioned on the overview page) excludes accommodation but includes tuition, teaching materials, and lunch on weekdays. Travel or living expenses are not covered. You must settle your own hotel bills, both when in Lausanne and on off-campus assignments, as well as all dinners and lunches on weekends when applicable. IMD reserves the right to modify the program fee at any time.

Tentative reservation

To make a non-binding reservation, send us a completed tentative reservation form. This carries no obligation and is not a substitute for the formal application form.

For IMD sessions, the following information applies:

Application & invoicing

Your application is forwarded to the program director who will evaluate it to ensure that the program corresponds to your objectives and profile. This can take approximately 1 week.

During this time you will receive an e-mail asking you to submit a purchase order number if required. Should your company ask you to provide them with a purchase requisition or cost estimate for internal purposes you can use our purchase requisition or cost estimate generator.

The information & registration office will notify you of the outcome of your application. If you are accepted, they will send your acceptance letter and invoice fee together by priority mail. From this point, your enrollment will be considered firm by both you and IMD.

Please pay the program fee within 30 days of the invoice date and no later than the commencement of the program. If you register within 1 month of the start of the program, you must settle the invoice immediately without exception.
Payment can be made by bank transfer or credit card.

Up to six weeks before the program start date, a program coordinator will contact you with information on hotels and pre-program preparation. Please note that IMD reserves enough rooms for each participant on the program.

If accepted, you understand that you must be completely free of professional duties while attending this program and that you must attend all scheduled sessions and activities.

Substitution

A participant can be substituted on the same program session without incurring any fees. The substitute needs to apply and be admitted.

Note: Once you have paid the program tuition fee, if you do not attend another program within 24 months, the program fee will be forfeited.