SC Certification Program
Online, Self-Directed
Credential Earned: SC-R Designation
By completing this program, participants will earn the SC-R [Supply Chain Resilience] designation.
Earning the SC-R designation prepares you for the 21st Century as a professionally competent resilience strategist.
SC Certification Programs: Strategic Leadership in the 21st Century
The Supply Chain [SC] Certification Program is a series of professional designations in specialized areas that will equip supply chain logistics professionals with the competencies required to implement a resilient supply chain strategy while discovering new opportunities to succeed in the face of constant challenge, change and opportunity.
To enhance the competencies of logistics practitioners and professionals in meeting the challenges of 21st Century global supply chains, the Logistics Institute developed a new certification program specifically focused on risk and resilience. Based on the work of the Supply Chain Risk Management [SCRM] Consortium and in partnership with their key founders, the Institute now delivers this self-directed online program to Identify-Assess-Mitigate-Manage risk in support of resilient global supply chains.
The second program in our series of SC programs is the Supply Chain Resilience Program.
This program provides knowledge and tools to guide you through understanding the choices available to your organization to manage supply chain risk and enhance the resiliency required for long term sustainability and profitability.
Building Resilient Global Supply Chains:
- Do you understand the differences between robust and resilient supply chain strategies?
- How do you identify and plan for internal risks in your company along complex global supply chains?
- Do you know how to handle unexpected external risks? Disruptions? Catastrophes?
- What are your company recovery plans?
- Do your plans focus only on organizational and business issues or do they extend to the realities of social, economic, environmental and personal factors?
Supply chain risk is increasing globally. The financial impact of supply chain disruptions can be devastating and are often not understood until it is too late. Supply chain strategies driven primarily by cost management and delivery improvements are no longer comprehensive enough to ensure competitive success.
Supply Chain Resilience is increasingly a competitive differentiator. Supply Chain Resilience is the capability and capacity of a supply chain network collectively/holistically, and of individual participants in that network individually, to “bounce back” from the impact of a risk event, quickly, cost-effectively, and in line with the overall value proposition.
Program Content
This program is structured in three levels.
LEVEL 1
Level 1 will review Supply Chain Management fundamentals, industry trends, the impact of uncertainty, complexity, and risk and the identification of supply chain risks.
KEY TOPICS:
SCM Fundamentals: Includes a mini-case and quiz
Global Supply Chain Trends and Role of Volatility: What executives want from supply chain, New metrics of success, Supply Chain trends, mini-case, and a quiz
Learning Outcomes
- Gain an appreciation for basic elements of Supply Chain Management
- Understand the reasons for good supply chain risk and resiliency best practices
- Learn of the financial implications of supply chain disruptions
- Identify supply chain trends and their impact on profitability and resiliency
- Gain an understanding of the impact of global volatility on supply chain operational performance
- Increase comprehension of the importance of supply chain cyber security
LEVEL 2
Level 2 will provide knowledge and tools to assist you in operationalizing the present-day tools, techniques, methodologies, metrics, frameworks and solutions to make these enablers work for you and drive the Supply Chain Risk & Resiliency journey forward.
KEY TOPICS:
Revisiting the four spheres of risk: terms & definitions, global risk index, mini-case and quiz
Framewords & Enablers: supply chain management history, risk frameworks, risk enablers, mini-case and quiz
- Gain further understanding behind the drive for good supply chain risk and resiliency
- Gain further appreciation for new software solutions supporting all aspects of supply chain risk & resiliency
- Learn about emerging risk frameworks and protocols to ensure good SCR&R returns on your investments
- Learn how to identify, assess and mitigate supply chain risks using new statistical tools and techniques
- Gain knowledge regarding your own company’s Risk Appetite/Risk Frontier and culture utilizing new assessment models
- Gain an understanding of methodologies that can forecast supplier bankruptcy 15-18 months in advance with a 90% accuracy rate
- Increase your awareness of the importance of supply chain cyber security and countermeasures
LEVEL 3
Level 3 is the capstone course, building upon the first two levels and expanding on our appreciation for all the known tools, techniques, methodologies and solutions to provide a comprehensive road map to continuously identify, assess, mitigate and manage supply chain risks.
Level 3 will also leverage online resources, video clips from companies, personal interaction with the authors, Global Risk Indexes, Global Risk Standards and will require an Executive Report Out process.
KEY TOPICS:
Supply chain resiliency: Review of SCRM, transformations and risk, terminology, review of the SC landscape, risk agility, SC risk maturity model, Knowledge check
Methods of identifying risks: review strategic and operational risks, Identifying risk surveys, Supply chain mapping, Palo Alto caselet, Big data and AI
- Gain further understanding behind the drive for good supply chain risk and resiliency
- Gain further appreciation for new software solutions supporting all aspects of supply chain risk & resiliency
- Learn about emerging risk frameworks and protocols to ensure good SC-Resiliency returns on your investments
- Learn how to identify, assess and mitigate supply chain risks using new statistical tools and techniques
- Gain a valuable appreciation for your company’s supply chain maturity and risk level utilizing a Cloud-based, Self-Assessment Tool
- Gain an understanding of methodologies that can forecast supplier bankruptcy 15-18 months in advance with a 90% accuracy rate
- Gain a better appreciation of how exemplar SC-Resilient companies identify, assess, mitigate and manage supply chain risks
- Graduate with the confidence and ability to develop a comprehensive SC-Resiliency strategy that will maximize supply chain performance, minimize risks within your supply chain and ensure a resilient enterprise going forward
Participants completing this program will earn the SC-R professional designation granted by the Logistics Institute.
Participants will also receive a certificate of completion from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Subject Matter Experts
lrvine Varkonyi
CSCP, PLog
Irvin Varkonyi, CSCP, PLog, is President of Supply Chain Operations Preparedness Education (SCOPE), a firm offering training and consulting in organizational preparedness for private and public sector organizations. SCOPE seeks to add value to organizations through training human capital and improving their ability to focus on the urgency of organizational balance by optimizing operational performance and minimizing organizational vulnerability.
Mr. Varkonyi is a certified instructor with the DC Metro chapter of APICS, teaching their Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) program. Mr. Varkonyi’s career has encompassed the global transportation and logistics system working with global carriers and Third Party Logistics. That experience and the consequences of catastrophes that disrupted the United States and global economies became the basis to advise clients and his students on navigating a volatile world.
Mr. Varkonyi holds an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a B.A. in International Relations and Economics from Clark University. He is President of the DC Chapter of the National Defense Transportation Association.
Irvin Varkonyi
CSCP, PLog
Gregory L. Schlegel
CPIM, CSP, Jonah
Greg is presently VP/Principal for Shertrack LLC. He has been a supply chain executive for over 30 years with several Fortune 100 companies and spent seven years as an IBM supply chain Executive Consultant. He has presented papers on and has managed consulting engagements in supply chain management, Risk Management, Lean/Six Sigma and Theory of Constraints throughout the US and around the globe. Greg was APICS’ 1997 International Society President. He is well published, a frequent speaker at conferences, seminars, webinars and dinner meetings. Greg speaks over 20 times per year and has authored over 100 articles in major supply chain magazines and journals. He has been a member of the APICS Strategic Direction Committee, has been on the Editorial Board for DC Velocity magazine, has been an IBF forecasting certification instructor, he has taught operations management at the University of Scranton and has been guest lecturer at ASU, St. Johns University and Rutgers University. Greg is presently a member of the Business Analytics Roundtable for Villanova University, he has been a member of the Board of Advisors for Rutgers University’s Supply Chain Undergraduate Program and he is Executive in Residence for Lehigh University’s Center for Value Chain Research. Greg has been teaching graduate level supply chain risk management at Lehigh University and has been facilitating Supply Chain Risk Management public workshops and the new APICS supported Risk CERTIFICATE workshops around the globe for over three years. He is founder of “The Supply Chain Risk Management Consortium”—a group of (13) companies providing education, assessment tools and consulting services in support of supply chain risk management projects and enterprise-wide journeys. He has also been teaching classic financial ERM, Enterprise-wide Risk Management at Villanova, within their Executive MBA program. He and Dr Robert Trent, Department Chair for Supply Chain Management at Lehigh have published a new book—”Supply Chain Risk Management: An Emerging Discipline.” Greg is certified CPIM, CSP in systems and a Theory of Constraints certified Jonah. He holds a B.S. in Operations Research and Computer Science from Penn State University and did his graduate work at Lake Forest College.
Gregory L. Schlegel
CPIM, CSP, Jonah
SC-R Designation
All professional designations are owned and maintained by the Logistics Community of Interest under the stewardship of the Logistics Institute. Professional designations are registered trademarks of the Logistics Institute.
The SC-R™ designation belongs to the Logistics Institute as a trademarked asset. SC-R™ professionals are members of the Logistics Institute. Earning the SC-R™ designation entails successful completion of the Supply Chain Resilience program, which is designed to meet the certification requirements set by the Professional Review Board of the Logistics Institute. All program content is developed by partners, who own and deliver that content under license to the Logistics Institute.
Participants completing the Supply Chain Resilience program will also receive a certificate of completion from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Designations must be renewed on an annual basis for continued use of the trademark. The professional year for all designations runs from November 1 – October 31.
| General | $ 165.00 |
| P.Log Members | Auto-Renewed with P.Log Renewal |
The Logistics Institute has the mandate to foster business, trade and economic developments between and among supply chain logistics professionals to sustain global trade built on an even playing field, led by competent and ethical certified professionals, based on the fundamental conviction that global trade can only be sustained at the human level by practitioners and professionals who are capable of building trust.