Yale School of Management Executive Education

Supply Chain Management: AI, Sustainability, and Resilience Strategies Program

Learn how new technologies and processes can drive innovation in your supply chain.

Start date

07 May 2025

Price

$2,800 USD

Installment Plan

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Course duration

6 weeks

Excluding orientation

Language

English

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Effort

6–8 hours per week

Self-paced learning online

ABOUT THIS COURSE

Introduction

82%

The share of CEOs in supply chain-intensive industries that plan to increase investments in digital capabilities across their enterprises.

Gartner (2024).

47%

Nearly half of all global supply chain executives believe they are currently vulnerable to disruption.

KPMG (Sep, 2023).

Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)

The global economy is founded on effective supply chains. Yet, with shifting consumer expectations and escalating challenges, conventional supply chain practices need to evolve to keep up. Supply chain leaders must embrace strategic innovation to steer their organizations through a changing landscape and establish a competitive edge.

The Supply Chain Management: AI, Sustainability, and Resilience Strategies Program from the Executive Education team at the Yale School of Management prepares you to oversee this change. For six weeks, you’ll investigate optimal approaches for incorporating new technologies into the supply chain life cycle and gain practical insights into the decision-making approach of leaders who have had success. You’ll also discover methods for using artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT) to build resilience and value, and explore ways to establish environmentally responsible supply chains in your specific context. Walk away with immediately applicable frameworks, techniques, and insights to confidently lead your supply chain organization’s reinvention.

Is this course for you?

This program caters to current and aspiring supply chain leaders who have a strong grasp of the supply chain life cycle and at least a decade’s experience in key functions like warehousing, transportation, operations, and logistics. If you’re a strategically minded professional driven to progress in your career by directing your supply chain organization’s digital transformation, this program will benefit you. Potential participants’ roles might include, but aren’t limited to, supply chain director, operations manager, technology integration manager, transformation leader, logistics strategist, growth strategist, and AI implementation specialist.

Introduction

Duration: 6 weeks (excluding orientation)

What will set you apart

On completion of this program, you’ll walk away with:

Real-world tools and frameworks for reinventing your supply chain operations using AI and IoT technologies.

Practical methods for building more resilient supply chains and navigating unforeseen disruption.

An enhanced ability to create significant strategic value within your supply chain organization

An updated leadership skill set, helping you confidently and effectively navigate supply chain transformation

Unlimited access to edX’s Career Engagement Network, offering you exclusive resources and events to support your professional journey and drive your career forward.

Course curriculum

Upskill as a supply chain leader as you work through the weekly modules of this online program.

Orientation module

Welcome to your Online Campus

Module 1

Enabling supply chain management excellence

Module 2

Creating value through supply chain innovation

Module 3

Reinventing supply chain operations with AI and IoT

Module 4

Building resilient supply chains

Module 5

Building responsible supply chains

Module 6

Leading supply chain transformation

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Program Convener

The design of this online program is guided by Yale SOM faculty, as well as industry experts, who will share their experience and in-depth knowledge with you throughout the program.

Sang Kim

Professor of Operations Management, Yale School of Management

About the certificate

Learn to lead supply chain innovation and earn an official certificate of participation from the Yale School of Management Executive Education.

Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with your digital certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the program handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the program.

Your digital certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you upon successful completion of the program, as per the stipulated requirements.

Yale SOM Executive Education Supply Chain Management: AI, Sustainability, and Resilience Strategies Program certificate

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