Meet and engage with your learning and peer networks as you navigate the Online Campus.

• Become familiar with your new virtual classroom
• Meet your success team and get to know your fellow classmates

Revisit basic supply chain principles before expanding your perspective on the impact and influence of global supply chains.

• Recall the foundational underpinnings of supply chain management
• Define the resource-based view of supply chains
• Identify different examples of supply chains in your professional context
• Outline your current approach to supply chain management within your context
• Demonstrate how systems thinking expands perspectives on supply chains
• Determine how power dynamics impact supply chains
• Articulate the impact of global supply chains on business, society, and the environment

Uncover the challenges that a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world poses to supply chains, and the mitigating impact of a global perspective.

• Discuss the big-picture trends and complex systems that influence supply chains in the broader external context
• Identify potential supply chain management challenges in the context of an organisation or sector, considering competitors and stakeholders
• Interpret how supply chain disruption, risk, and compliance play out in your context
• Illustrate how a global framework can be applied to create a more resilient and sustainable supply chain

Expand your conception of value and rethink the impact of your supply chain, with a global perspective on value and dependencies.

• Describe how conventional value is accumulated along a supply chain
• Identify how a broader definition of value could be applied to a supply chain
• Demonstrate how measuring value can be used to understand a supply chain
• Interpret a range of dependencies that are important for a particular company's supply chain
• Determine the different positive and negative impacts that a company's supply chain can have, including on society and the environment
• Apply the broad definition of value to a practical example

Discover how a life cycle approach and innovative business models can revitalise supply chain design.

• Describe the development of supply chains to date from a resource-based approach
• Review how an incremental design approach can constrain integration
• Illustrate the potential inefficiencies resulting from an incremental design approach
• Compare the role of conscious design to incremental design when dealing with complex supply networks
• Contrast linear and circular approaches to creating resilient and efficient supply chain design
• Analyse the potential contribution of business model innovation towards resolving supply chain challenges
• Evaluate the contribution of circularity and business model innovation with a practical example

Reflect on the importance of analytics and key performance indicators (KPIs) for optimising supply chain management.

• Identify how developing integrated end-to-end analytics can optimise supply chain performance
• Indicate the tools that can help supply chain managers to overcome obstacles and identify enablers for expanding analytics
• Illustrate the demand for expanded KPIs to embrace social and environmental concerns
• Relate a new generation of KPIs with existing KPIs along the supply chain
• Analyse the challenges of KPIs that are not self-validating
• Deconstruct the nature of the KPIs and stakeholders that are required to transfer data along the supply chain

Discover the role of technology in facilitating integrated supply chains and the opportunities for increased traceability.

• Illustrate the incoming technologies that will contribute towards an integrated supply chain
• Show how new technologies will transform existing supply chains
• Analyse how these technologies can incorporate expanding data requirements
• Judge how the application of these technologies will have a transformational effect on a business and its supply chain
• Debate how the cumulative application of these technologies will have a transformational effect on society

Consider the range of relationships that exist within contemporary supply chains, and how to extend and strengthen these relationships to optimise the design and impact of supply chains.

• Recognise the different forms and functions of contemporary supply chain partnerships
• Identify the risks and opportunities associated with business-to-business and business-to-non-business partnerships and the efforts to measure their success
• Use different partnership tools to undertake stakeholder and context mapping using a practical supply chain scenario
• Analyse the opportunities that come from collaborating with key stakeholders and entering into partnerships to create new value
• Reflect on the benefits of collaborative mechanisms in supply chains for business, society, and the environment using practical scenarios

Recognise your ability to effect change, consolidate your support network, and develop a strategy to realise your goals.

• Identify your role as an influencer of change and the barriers to taking action in your own context
• Illustrate the importance of gaining internal support for overcoming barriers to organisational culture change
• Investigate the resource implications of adopting different approaches to your supply chain
• Identify members within your network who can assist you with influencing change in your supply chain
• Investigate a range of support mechanisms beyond your existing network that can help you be more effective in your current role
• Develop an action plan for leveraging your support network to reach your personal objectives within your organisation or sphere of influence
• Write a reflection on how your views on supply chains have changed since the start of the course