Audience, benefits & format

The course is destined to experienced professionals involved in the supply chain (SC), who seek to develop digital competencies across the various supply chain capabilities; and/or who manage digital transformation and/or integration of digital technologies. The course contains a total of 42 guided learning hours (e.g. 3 days of 4h class
room training and 5 days of 6h on-the-job application).

Pre-requisites

College graduate, English IELTS-3.5, working in a Supply Chain related job with at least 2 years of experience. Level 2 Supply Chain Qualification or equivalent. Level 2 knowledge of digital competencies or equivalent.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, the delegates will be able to:

• Understand digital technologies and how digital capabilities can contribute to supply chain performance.
• Know how digital technologies can be applied and integrated to various supply chain structures.

Session Objectives

• Understand the importance of SC digital capabilities and how they link to the supply chain performance.
• Define the SC digital capabilities, in a consistent and comprehensive framework.
•  Identify the inter-dependencies of the various SC digital capabilities, functions and roles.
• Explore how digital technologies can be applied, based on concrete proven application examples
• Understand the SC digital integration process and know-how to improve the connectivity of
  technologies.
• Identify the SC digital infrastructure design dimensions, methods and tools used to improve
  performance.
• Categorize the SC digital players through a governance, adoption and assurance framework.
• Compare the applications of SC digital technologies and consider real-life applications to the
  workplace.
• Apply concepts & tools to the workplace with on-the-job applications assigned in accord with
  managers.

Assessment & award

Knowledge acquisition is tested through an online assessment platform. Successful completion
leads to the “SCF Level 3 Award in Digital Supply Chain Management” provided by “The Supply
Chain Foundation (SCF)”.

Further education

This Award is a pre-requisite to other SCF courses and can be combined with
other course awards to obtain SCF Level 3 and Level 4 Certificates and
Diplomas.