Supply Chain Logistics Optimization

Real-World, Scenario-Based Supply Chain Training

In this experiential supply chain module, you'll work through four detailed, hands-on exercises simulating real-world logistics and operations challenges across:

• Supply Management & Procurement Planning
• Manufacturing & Operations Coordination
• Transportation & Logistics Flow Optimization
• Retail & Distribution Strategy

Each exercise requires you to analyze, plan, map, and justify your decisions, mimicking real-world responsibilities in supply chain management roles.

What You’ll Learn
Through immersive, scenario-based exercises, you'll build ready to use skills to:

• Plan and manage complex procurement cycles
• Coordinate manufacturing and operations for efficiency
• Map, analyze, and optimize logistics and transportation flows
• Adapt supply chains to disruptions and changing market demands
• Apply process thinking and strategic decision-making
• Integrate leadership, communication, and collaboration into supply chain planning

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Advanced Scenario-Based Supply Chain Strategy Module

In this experiential logistics module, you’ll work through four hands-on exercises simulating high-level supply chain leadership challenges in:

• Global supply chain mapping
• Leadership and competency development to manage supply chain logistics
• International market risks and regulatory pressures
• Customer-centric value creation

Each scenario demands critical thinking, strategic analysis, and leadership decision-making across evolving logistics environments.

What You’ll Learn
Through immersive exercises, you’ll build skills to:

• Map complex, global supply chains from source to customer
• Evaluate and strengthen your leadership capacity
• Navigate geopolitical and regulatory disruptions
• Build value-driven supply chain strategies aligned with market needs
• Understand supplier dynamics and customer value delivery

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Critical Thinking for Modern Supply Chain Challenges

This analytical module explores critical issues impacting modern logistics, including data strategy, performance measurement, and sustainable systems. You'll work through four scenario-based exercises in:

• Supply chains and information technology
• Balanced performance measurement
• Sustainability and strategic impact
• Quality management in customer-focused systems

Each exercise demands a deep-dive into real logistics issues that demand innovation and strategic thought.

What You’ll Learn
You’ll gain practical skills to:

• Use analytics for traceability, responsiveness, and supplier collaboration
• Apply Balanced Scorecard thinking to align strategy with results
• Design sustainable supply chains balancing cost and ethics
• Maintain quality while adapting to customer variability
• Identify trends and tech shaping supply chain evolution

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Structured Problem-Solving for Operational Excellence

In this hands-on module, you’ll work through a full-cycle creative process using the Simplex 8-step framework to solve a real supply chain problem from your own experience. You’ll be guided to:

• Frame and define complex, real-world problems
• Map the causes, obstacles, and implications
• Generate and evaluate multiple solution ideas
• Build a concrete and implementable action plan
• Anticipate resistance and gain stakeholder support
• Strategize your implementation with tools to overcome inertia and risk

Each step helps sharpen your decision-making, creativity, and strategic planning skills.

What You’ll Learn

• Use divergent/convergent thinking to explore real problems
• Build and evaluate creative supply chain solutions
• Develop an action plan backed by stakeholder insights
• Anticipate resistance and drive implementation
• The Simplex Template that can be used to apply to any problem you face

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Ethical Leadership Development for Supply Chain Professionals

This leadership module takes you through an introspective journey to align your values, ethics, and vision with your professional leadership role.

You’ll complete one immersive workbook that explores:

1. Your values and their impact on decision-making
2. Your personal vision and leadership self-awareness
3. Dilemmas, ethical leadership, and stakeholder management
4. Organizational culture and ethics in practice

Through real-world case work and self-assessments, this module strengthens your ability to lead with clarity, integrity, and purpose.

You’ll learn to:

• Identify the core values that drive your behaviour and leadership
• Understand how conflicts between values shape your choices
• Build ethical decision-making strategies for complex workplace issues
• Align your leadership with your organization’s mission and culture
• Lead with purpose, integrity, and emotional clarity

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Practical Change Management for Logistics Leaders

In this practical leadership module, you’ll work through four in-depth exercises that guide you through the challenges of leading change, managing teams, and developing your own leadership style in real-world business settings:

1. Leading proactive and reactive change through simulations
2. Understanding professional competencies and leadership principles
3. Applying leadership styles in a range of organizational scenarios
4. Building vision, trust, and alignment using Kotter’s change model

Each exercise focuses on applying leadership theory to practice - sharpening your ability to influence, adapt, and guide others through complexity.

You’ll learn to:

• Lead organizational change in both urgent and non-urgent contexts
• Understand and apply your own leadership style effectively
• Identify strengths, gaps, and growth areas in your leadership profile
• Ideate how to handle resistance, build coalitions, and communicate change
• Anchor new ways of working into organizational culture for lasting results

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Team Dynamics and Collaborative Leadership

Experiential and scenario-based module: this highly immersive module focuses on teamwork, leadership, and decision-making under pressure.

Drawing from a detailed simulation (The Canoe Trip), you'll explore how real people—with different roles, values, and styles—interact in high-stakes environments.

You’ll complete a comprehensive workbook that explores:

• Group communication and team dynamics
• Conflict resolution and consensus building
• Feedback, behaviour, and leadership development
• Logistics decision-making under emergency conditions
• Team risk management and action planning

The exercises challenge you to assess yourself and others, navigate complex group scenarios, and develop high-performing team practices.

You’ll learn to:

• Navigate personality differences and foster inclusive team dynamics
• Develop leadership approaches for diverse, high-pressure contexts
• Apply decision-making frameworks to real logistics and reverse flow scenarios
• Resolve conflict constructively and build trust across team roles
• Create actionable team charters and ethical guidelines for performance
• Build consensus while respecting individual differences and managing risk

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