Executive Education Center

Scheller College of Business

Supply Chain & Logistics Institute

H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering

Supply Chain Leader Development Program

This consortium-based program provides a comprehensive and holistic focus on capability development
along multiple dimensions needed to drive supply chain leadership excellence strategic thinking,
operational excellence, business leadership and application competency.
DATE AND TIME
September 14 - 17, 2015
and
October 19 - 22, 2015
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
LOCATION
Georgia Tech
Scheller College of Business

800 West Peachtree Street

Atlanta, Georgia 30308

PROGRAM FEES
$6,700 per person
1-2 people from same company

$6,030 per person - save 10%

3-5 people from same company
$5,360 per person - save 20%
6 or more people from the same
company, Georgia Tech alumni,
military veterans, Georgia Tech
faculty and staff

Cost includes welcome event, continental breakfast, lunch, snacks, classroom material,
wireless connectivity, class photo, Georgia Tech certificate, and CEUs (excludes travel
and accommodation).

Dr. Soumen Ghosh

Academic Director of supply chain excellence education
programs for corporate customers at Georgia Techs Scheller
College of Business, Dr. Ghosh provides consulting and
training services to organizations around the world in areas of
operations/manufacturing, supply chain strategy, and
capability development.

PROGRAM FACULTY
The program boasts a world-class faculty from
Georgia Techs Scheller College of Business and the
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems
Engineering, chosen for the depth of their
knowledge, instructional and facilitation skills, and
more importantly, their real-world orientation.
They know that much of the learning comes from
interchange and dialogue between participants. Our
faculty are experts at guiding and facilitating
classroom discussion to effectively link theory and
practice, as well as promote collaborative learning.
The program will be conducted under the academic
direction of world-renowned thought leader
Dr. Soumen Ghosh.

OBJECTIVE

Create supply chain leaders of an organizations current and future

senior leaders in the operations and supply chain area by:
1. Accelerating improvement of their strategic, technical and
business competencies
2. Accelerating and advancing organizational leadership capabilities
of these key personnel
3. Enhancing their thought leadership and innovative thinking
capabilities so as to think and act like supply chain general
managers and orchestrators
4. Providing a holistic understanding of the end-to-end supply chain,
immediately applicable to their daily work and thought processes

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This program is designed for high to mid-level directors and managers within
the overall area of global operations and supply chain (procurement, sourcing,
distribution fulfillment, manufacturing, logistics, demand planning, etc.)

APPROACH
Eight-day in-residency
consortium-based Executive
Education program, divided into
two, four-day segments.
The program is offered at least two
times a year, spring and fall
(depending on demand).
After the residency, participants work
on applied/action learning projects
project report-outs are conducted
by the program participants at the
conclusion of the program.

Participants receive a blended

learning experience (i.e., case
studies, experiential, peer to peer,
lectures, team activities, etc.).
Georgia Tech faculty engages
participants in active discussion
to leverage their knowledge and
experience as building blocks in the
learning process.

High-Level Overview of
Supply Chain Leader Development Program
This is a representative
example of participants first
and second residency weeks
Company teams or individuals
should bring a defined project
to apply learning and achieve
optimal return on investment
Learning objectives will be
drawn from the content areas
and program components
identified below:

Content Areas

Leadership &
Management
Development

Strategic Thinking

Session One Residency

Monday
Developing a Supply
Chain Leadership
Mindset

Wednesday

Thursday
Demand
Management and
Sales & Operations
Planning

Supply Chain
Segmentation
Strategy for Market
Advantage

Collaboration with
Supply Chain
Partners for Driving
Growth & Profitability

Lunch

Lunch & Photograph

Lunch

Lunch

Supply Chain
Strategy & Alignment
With Bus. Strategy

Effective
Communication

Business Finance &

Corporate Value
Creation

Critical Thinking

Project Work

Project Work

Competitive Bus.
Strategy &
Operations

Innovation &
Design Process
Project Work

Welcome Event

Operational
Excellence

Tuesday

Effective
Communication &
Video Coaching
Feedback

Optional Small
Group Dinner

9 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Network Planning

1:15 - 5 p.m.

Optional Small
Group Dinner

Session Two Residency

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Effective Inventory
Management

Strategic Sourcing
and Procurement
Excellence

Distribution &
Logistics Excellence

Managing
Performance:
Financial and
Non-financial

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Leading & Managing

Change

Strategic
Negotiation &
Persuasion

Enterprise
Profit Insights

Driving Operational
Excellence

Project Work

Project Work

Project Work

Program Wrap-Up &

Certificate Ceremony

Optional Small
Group Dinner

Optional Small
Group Dinner

Optional Small
Group Dinner

Applied Learning

9 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Networking

Learn More
scheller.gatech.edu/SCLDP

Register
scheller.gatech.edu/SCLDP-Register

Program Manager
Linda Read
404.894.8700

*Agenda subject to change

1:15 - 5 p.m.