Note: This course has been transitioned to an online format for 2020.
Classes will be taught by LIVE video instruction similar to the experience you would receive in person with the same interactive components. Each course will run for 1-week Monday through Thursday from 9:30am to 1:00pm EDT each day.
Course Description
Often the lack of cooperation and coordination between organizations or stakeholders lead to inefficiencies, despite having common goals. A systems view is needed to ensure appropriate use of scarce resources to meet the multiple, and often conflicting, short- and long-term goals from multiple constituents. This course will focus on conceptual and modeling skills to understand and effectively manage supply chains and operations from a systems perspective. Models will address system characteristics (e.g., demand dependencies) that drive system dynamics and policies to regulate performance. Course topics include methods for improving coordination and collaboration, addressing demand dependencies, and reliably measuring and evaluating system performance.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for representatives from governmental or non-governmental organizations, private corporations, military, and foundations, including but not limited to senior executives overseeing administrative and operational functions of an organization, logistics and supply chain managers, program managers, directors of field operations, directors of emergency/disaster preparedness and response, and public health professionals.
How You Will Benefit
- Identify opportunities for coordination within organizations and collaboration across organizations for increased efficiency and improved outcomes.
- Describe the strategic behavior of decision-makers and the impact of the market (or contract) structure on the participant's actions and the overall system dynamics.
- Define evaluation metrics in alignment with the system goals and structure system operations and incentives that address and evaluate these metrics.
What Is Covered
- How coordination and collaboration can improve supply chain efficiency and effectiveness
- How events, decisions and actions in one part of a system, such as a supply chain, impact other parts of the system
- System-wide inventory variability and costs mitigation and reduction
- Evaluation metrics
Pre-Course Activities (5 hrs) - Online via GTPE platform
In Classroom Activities (2 days) - Georgia Tech Global Learning Center
**online class format (4 days) - Online GTPE platform
NOTE: Pre-course activities will be conducted online using the Canvas platform online learning management system. Access instructions will be provided to registrants when details become available.
Pre-Course Activities - Conducted online via GTPE platform
Coordination and Collaboration – 2 hours
Game Theory/Incentives – 1 hour
System Dynamics - 2 hour
Course Materials
Provided
- Participants receive readings, case studies, spreadsheet files, and lecture slides, and will be given access to the pre-course web-based activities.
Recommended
- Students need a laptop with Microsoft Excel and the ability to connect to a high-speed internet connection (internet access is provided for onsite portions of course).
Course Prerequisite and Related Certificate Information
For those interested in earning the Health and Humanitarian Supply Chain Management Certificate, this course is the third and final of the three-course certificate program. To earn the certificate, participants must register and complete the following courses within three years:
- Responsive Supply Chain Design and Operations
- Inventory Management and Resource Allocation in Supply Chains
- Systems Operations and Strategic Interactions in Supply Chains
The Georgia Tech Health and Humanitarian Logistics Professional Certificate Program is an executive education program designed for practitioners in non-governmental organizations (NGOs), government, industry, and the military who are active participants in health and humanitarian sectors. The courses are developed for practitioners seeking to build skills to improve decision making in preparedness, response operations planning, and system design. Courses include many interactive components, such as case studies and games, which help professionals in the humanitarian world to link the challenges and decision-making tradeoffs they face in practice with the systematic approaches, tools, and techniques presented.
Course CEUs
This course provides for 1.40 continuing education units (CEUs).
Course Instructors
Course Fees
Standard: $2,400.00, Alumni/Org Discount: $2,160.00, Certificate: $1,992.00 (cost of each course when signing up for and paying for a multi-course certificate program).
First time attendees pay the listed course fee. If you are a returning student of the Supply Chain & Logistics Institute (SCL) courses, you will receive a 10% discount which you will enter at the "Check Out" page. Use Coupon Code SCL-Alum.
There are also discounts available for multiple-team member registrations, to those who prepay for all the courses in a specific certificate, to active/retired military, or to members of certain organizations (click this link for a listing).
Discounts cannot be combined or used for online formatted courses. To receive the coupon code for these discounts, call 404-385-8663 or send us an email prior to registration
The program fee for In Person courses (non-online) includes continental breakfasts, lunches, breaks, parking, internet access, and all classroom materials.
If CHHS must cancel a program, registrants will receive a full refund. Georgia Tech, however, cannot assume the responsibility for other costs incurred. Due to program enrollment limits, early registration is encouraged. Registrations will be acknowledged by a letter of confirmation from Professional Education.
**The 2020 Virtual Program, will also be offered at a reduced cost of $4,200 (originally $6,000). Courses taken individually (not the full 3 course program) will be $1800 each rather than the original fee of $2400.
In Person Course Times
On the first day, please check in at least 30 minutes before the class start time.
- Morning session (8:30am-12:30pm)
- Lunch (12:30am-1:30pm)
- Afternoon session (1:30am-5:00pm)
Online Course Times
Each course will run for 1 week Monday through Thursday from 9:30am to 1:00pm EDT each day.