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Supply Chain Analytics

Yao Zhao

This Specialization is intended for people seeking to integrate supply chain management with data analytics. Through six courses, you will discover and solve problems in various domains of a supply chain, from source, make, move to sell. Upon completion, you will learn concrete data analytics skills and tools to improve supply chain performance.

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This Specialization is intended for people seeking to integrate supply chain management with data analytics. Through six courses, you will discover and solve problems in various domains of a supply chain, from source, make, move to sell. Upon completion, you will learn concrete data analytics skills and tools to improve supply chain performance.

Supply Chain Analytics Essentials: Supply chain pain points and how analytics may relieve them, job opportunities and intelligence.

Business intelligence and Competitive Analysis: Use data analytics to assess the competitive environment and discover business problems and opportunities.

Demand Analytics: Data analytics for demand forecasting and planning.

Inventory Analytics: Discover and solve inventory problems - an essential part of Sales & Operations Planning.

Sourcing Analytics: Use market intelligence, bargain power analysis, and supplier analysis to identify and select new suppliers.

Supply Chain Analytics: Use analytics to design logistics strategies for a large-scale distribution system.

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Six courses

Supply Chain Analytics Essentials

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Welcome to Supply Chain Analytics, a high-demand field! This introductory course explores how analytics can be applied to various supply chain domains, from selling to sourcing, to generate a significant impact. You will also learn about job market trends, requirements, and preparation, and master a job intelligence tool to find preferred jobs.

Business Intelligence and Competitive Analysis

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By the end of 2019, American Airlines (AAL), the world's largest airline group and a SP500 company, is in trouble. To start, business intelligence and competitive analysis is required to discover the problems and opportunities for the company which lay the foundation for the turning-around strategies.

Demand Analytics

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Welcome to Demand Analytics, a sought-after skill in supply chain management and marketing. Through a real-life case study, you'll learn data analytics skills for demand planning and forecasting, enabling you to improve forecasting accuracy and better stimulate and influence demand.

Inventory Analytics

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Inventory analytics is the foundation of supply chain analytics. Companies in trade industries may have 30-50% of their assets tied up in inventory. Effective inventory management can improve revenue and reduce cost by increasing product variety and availability, and reducing excessive inventory and waste.

Supply Chain Analytics

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Welcome to Supply Chain Analytics, where you'll learn to apply data analytics to improve supply chain performance. Through the real-life story of VASTA, a major US telecommunication company, you'll gain the skills to diagnose and optimize a supply chain. Upon completion, you'll be able to:

Sourcing Analytics

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It is easy to spend money, but hard to get the value. Sourcing analytics applies data analytics and business intelligence to supplier development and management. Specifically, you will learn market intelligence, bargain power analysis, and supplier analysis, to identify and select suppliers with the objective of getting more value with less spend.

Learning objectives

  • Understand the pain points of a supply chain and how analytics may relieve them.
  • See supply chain + analytics job opportunities and requirement, and make data-driven career decisions.
  • Discover and prioritize problems for enterprises in a competitive environment.
  • Plan for demand and supply, and design effective logistics strategies for large-scale distribution systems.

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