Supply Chain Management Certificate Online

Organizations in virtually every industry rely on intricate supply chains that globally manage goods and services demands. Synchronizing the flow of products, information, and funds are becoming increasingly complex with products that move across continents daily and deadlines that directly affect a company’s profitability. This fast-paced industry requires professionals with strong and balanced quantitative, analytical, communication, and project management skills.

Offered 100% online, WPI's Supply Chain Management Certificate is a convenient way to advance your skills without pressing pause on your career.

The Business School, grounded in a technology-focused university, has world-class expertise and educational resources in these areas, and thus is suitably poised to offer a graduate-level education to prepare students for their career choices and leadership in the field of supply chain management.

This four-course certificates is excellent preparation for taking the Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM formerly APICS) Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) and ASCM Certified Production and Inventory Management.

Learning Outcomes

By completing the certificate in Supply Chain Management, students will learn to:

Design and manage effective supply chains
Improve the operational efficiencies of a supply chain
Be able to interpret the implications of supply chain initiatives in terms of key business performance and analytical metrics
Apply supply chain analytical tools and decision-making for supply chain analysis.
Recognize and evaluate supply chain vulnerabilities, mitigate supply chain risk, and build resilient domestic and global supply chains
Evaluate and manage the sustainability of a supply chain

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Faculty Profiles

Joseph Sarkis

Professor, The Business School

Joseph Sarkis is a Professor of Management within Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Business School. He previously served as a faculty member at Clark University and the University of Texas at Arlington. His teaching and research interests are in the fields of environmental susta [...]

Sara Saberi

Associate Professor, The Business School

My research agenda takes advantage of my educational background. The first area of research is supply chain networks equilibrium. In this research stream, I model supply chain networks to understand the interactions of agents who act in their own self-interest and their impact to [...]

Walter Towner

Teaching Professor, The Business School

I am interested in manufacturing and industrial engineering. My main interests lie at the intersection of manufacturing processes and the financial aspect of the business that relates to these processes. I see my mission as enabling students to become leaders in a business enviro [...]

Paul Delvy

Adjunct Instructor/Lecturer, The Business School

I enjoy teaching an interrelated series of topics that combine current industrial methodologies with the basics from academic study that form the foundations for commercial practice. The WPI classes give me an opportunity to share, mentor and steward students through simulated a [...]

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