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November 28, 2024
Date
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Time
RM 2,500*
Program Fee
In-Person
Format
Overview
In today’s world, everything we encounter flows through intricate supply chains—products rarely originate and reach consumers in the same location simultaneously.
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities, disrupting raw material flows and labor availability, while businesses faced immense pressure to cut costs and enhance service, particularly in global operations and emerging markets.
Experienced supply chain managers are scarce, leaving many businesses unprepared for crises. Our program offers a comprehensive view of supply chain management, addressing logistics challenges with practical solutions.
Learn to design and lead integrated supply chain operations, develop performance metrics, and customize strategies to fit diverse product and service needs. Ideal for supply chain, logistics, and procurement managers looking to boost their skills and confidence, it’s also valuable for professionals new to supply chains or in related fields like finance or marketing.
Expect a dynamic, action-oriented experience that challenges your assumptions and unlocks a world of opportunities within supply chain management. Don’t just adapt—thrive with our strategic insights.
- What is Supply Chain Management and why it matters
- Designing supply chain for Push and pull systems
- Supply chain segmentation
- Handing demand Uncertainty in Supply Chains
- Pooling, postponement, and other inventory deployment strategies
- Understanding Inventory Types and relevant Costs, Economic order Quantity and establishing Inventory Policy
- How to manage a supply chain avoiding common functional pitfalls with a systems approach
- Directors, Managers responsible for sales and operations planning
- Functional counterparts to supply chain working in finance, information systems, manufacturing and marketing
- Mid to senior-level managers and directors who to learn supply chain processes and best practices
- Senior Executives responsible for supply chain strategy, procurement, planning, distribution and / or transportation
Asad Ata
Associate Professor II of Operations and Supply Chain Management,
Faculty Director of Center for Sustainable Small-owners,
Research Affiliate at MIT
Faculty Profile
Dr. Asad Ata is an Associate Professor II of Operations and Supply Chain Management at the Asia School of Business. His primary areas of research include sustainable sourcing and supply chain management. Dr. Asad has worked full-time in the industry for over 12 years on various supply chain IT, telecom, and e-commerce projects. He has also worked extensively with food and agricultural supply chains with multinational corporations, NGOs, government organizations, and agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and SWIFT.
With a team of more than 40 researchers, field officers, and consultant agronomists, he leads a sustainability center for SMEs and small farmers of oil palm in Malaysia. Dr. Asad is working with small farmer communities to design supply chains that are socially responsible, environmentally sustainable, and economically viable. Dr. Asad Ata has been appointed on the Technical Advisory Committee for Mechanization & Automation Research Consortium for Oil Palm (MARCOP) Malaysia, a Government-Industry platform to discuss, develop and adopt mechanization and automation technologies for oil palm. In addition he is also on the advisory board of PERTANIGA, an independent smallholder association of Oil Palm farmers in Malaysia.
Dr. Asad teaches graduate programs in the areas of logistics, supply chain management, and sustainability. His teaching and research expertise covers operations and supply chain management, analytics, software systems, optimization, and data modeling. Dr. Asad has been a Research Affiliate with MIT from 2011, where he has taught for MIT Global Supply Chain And Logistics Excellence (SCALE) Network. He has been part of the design team for MIT’s first X-Series MOOC on Supply Chain Management.
Dr. Asad received his PhD in Operations Research from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, USA. He completed his Master’s degree from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, USA. He completed his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
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Logistics & Supply Chain Management
RM 2,500*
*excludes Sales & Service Tax (8%)
RM2,500.00
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