This two-day class will focus on the challenges and opportunities in the transformation to integrated supply chain management.  The course will be taught using active learning methods, designed to engage the participants in new the development of improved understanding of best practices.   The topic list is drawn from recent practice and research, and participants will engage in skill development using simulations, case discussions, and team-based exercises.  Participants will receive a certificate of completion certifying their successful completion of this professional development activity.

Course Topics include:

• The Supply Chain and Organization Strategy.
• Designing the right supply chain for your organizational environment.
• Rapid Fire Fulfillment: the Zara case study.
• The triple-A supply chain approach to supply chain strategy.
• Managing Risk in the Supply Chain.
• Planning for the different types of risks in the supply chain.
• Designing and implementing a risk management process for foreseeable risks.
• Developing a risk response process for unforeseeable risks.
• Case study: Transformation risk management.
• The Sustainable Supply Chain
• The closed-loop supply chain network.
• Consumer-off-the-shelf (COTS) in the supply chain and sustainability.
• Learning from Supply Chain simulation
• Modeling your supply chain: process and inventory modeling
• Case study: Supply chain simulation.
• Supply Chain Transformation
• Understanding and transforming the integrated supply chain.
• Eliciting supply chain performance requirements from customers.
• Case study: Managing and transforming the product-process supply chain (Cyclone Grinder.
• Implementing innovation to transform the supply chain.

The course is highly relevant for Logistics and Acquisition professionals working with the Air Force, as well as for all supply chain practitioners.  The course will take place October 18-19, 2011, and the cost of the training is $750.

About the Instructor

Dwight E. Smith-Daniels is Professor and Chair in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management in the Raj Soin College of Business at Wright State University.  He received a B.B.A. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Arizona.  Prior to joining WSU in 2008, Dr. Smith-Daniels was on the faculty of the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, where he was the Director of the MBA Specialization in Supply Chain Management.

Over the past fifteen years, Dr. Smith-Daniels has concentrated his teaching efforts in the areas of Project  and Supply Chain Management at the Masters level, in addition to teaching several Doctoral Seminars on those topics.  He has developed courses for Full-Time, Evening, Online, Technology, and Executive MBA programs.  In all of his courses, active learning principles are used to engage participants in the various problems that they encounter in their business environment.  He was a co-developer of the capstone project program in the MBA program at Arizona State University, and has continued his work in this area as he advises the projects in the Masters of Logistics and Supply Chain Management program in the Raj Soin College of Business.   Dr. Smith-Daniels also conducts seminars and teaches professional development courses on project management and supply chain management to a variety leading technology companies.  He served as a faculty liason on a U.S. Department of Commerce grant that was awarded to leading Arizona companies to fund the education of over eight hundred engineers and managers on project and program management from Boeing Helicopters, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Intel, Motorola, On Semi-Conductor, Raytheon Missile Systems and Maricopa County Workforce Connections.   He has also offered an Excutive Program on Supply Chain Management at the annual AFCEA conference in Dayton.

Dr. Smith-Daniels is widely published in the fields of project and supply chain management, with publications in a variety of aca­demic and practitioner journals, including the Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics and Production and Inventory Manage­ment.  His research focuses on Project Management and Planning in Technology and Supply Chain environments, including software, new product and supply chain transformation.  He has served as an Associate Editor for The Project Management Journal, The Journal of Operations Management and the Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education.   Dr. Smith-Daniels is a member of the Project Management Institute, the Decision Sciences Institute, The Institute for Supply Management, the American Project and Inventory Control Society and the Production and Operations Management Society.  He has served as consultant to a number of organizations, including Intel, DialCorp, Honeywell and Motorola.