Supply Chain Management Micro-Credential

Why Consider A Supply Chain Management Micro-Credential?

Supply Chain Management represents some of the fastest growing career fields nationwide with the global Supply Chain job market expected to grow over 11% from 2020-2027.  Supply Chain is a function of every organization so the potential for career growth in this field is exponential.

This micro-credential in Supply Chain Management is designed to provide individuals with a broad understanding of the primary functions and coordination of areas ranging from:

• purchasing,
• inventory control
• warehouse management
• operations,
• production and
• transportation

Who Should Consider A Supply Chain Management Micro-Credential?

GCC’s Supply Chain Management Micro-Credential provides valuable groundwork for:

• Employed individuals who need supply chain management skills to raise their current level of job performance and/or to advance their career
• Entrepreneurs developing a new business or planning an expansion
• Individuals seeking to change their career or those planning to enter the workplace

Learning & Skill Development

The Supply Chain Management Micro-Credential is comprised of four courses: Transportation and Distribution Management (BLM212), Operations and Production Management (BLM223), Intro to Purchasing and Supply Chain Management (BLM234) and Intro to Inventory and Warehouse Management (BLM245).

Topics covered in these four courses include:

• Understand the competitive advantage the purchasing function can provide an organization.
• Evaluate domestic versus international business practices (language barriers, cultural differences, laws, currency valuation, customs clearance, etc.).
• Explain the strategic versus tactical functionality of purchasing to influence the organization; product flow, future trends, inventory control, warehousing, etc.
• Calculate and evaluate inventory associated metrics (turnover, carrying costs, fill rates, stock out costs, etc.
• Use decision making tools such as “Reorder Point Quantity” AND “Economic Order Quantity” to increase inventory and warehouse efficiencies.
• Understand how to manage on-going warehouse operations issues (safety, ergonomics, staffing, security, etc.).
• Analyze tradeoffs associated with mode and carrier selection; carrier operations, costs, shipment size, weight, handling characteristics, service levels, rules, regulations etc.
• Manage the various attributes associated with providing timely, cost effective, and efficient transportation and distribution from the point of conversion to an intermediate party or end user.
• Learn strategic concepts, and qualitative and quantitative tools used in managing the areas of production and operations; site location, forecasting, capacity planning, cycle time, quality, etc.
• Develop critical thinking to understand the interactions between Operations and Production management to achieve core objectives; productivity, competitiveness, profitability, etc.

Attention Employers:

This micro-credential is beneficial to organizations seeking to manage and controlling the efficient, cost effective flow and storage of materials to meet or exceeding customers’ requirements.  In this program, these are all taken into consideration alongside inventory levels, material handling, warehousing, packaging, transportation and customer service with the ultimate intent of minimizing costs while maximizing outcomes.

This credential can serve to support an organization’s promotion and/or succession plan by providing focused, short-term training to new or transitioning employees.

Overall, this credential helps employers identify internal or external job candidates who have the required skills.