Green Supply Chain Professional

Hours: 80 / Access Length: 12 Months / Delivery: Open, Mentor Supported

Retail Price: $1,499.00

Course Overview:

Become a Green Supply Chain Professional and learn a clear strategic overview and actionable plan for the implementation of green supply chains. This course is for anyone grappling with the elements required to change an organization’s supply chain strategy in a ‘green’ direction.

This course answers the following five fundamental questions:

  1. What are the tangible and intangible benefits of moving towards a Green Supply Chain?
  2. What are the costs, both direct, and indirect?
  3. What influence do we have over our suppliers, their suppliers and our customers that would allow us to jointly work together and move the supply chain towards a green supply chain?
  4. How will we communicate and measure our progress towards the green supply chain to the key stakeholders? How will we engage them?
  5. What barriers to Green Supply Chains can be expected and how can these be overcome?

The Green Supply Chain Professional is responsible for steering supply chain decisions and this course is an invaluable asset, particularly as the ‘greening of business’ grows ever important.

After completing this course, you should be able to:

  • Define the core elements of the green supply chain
  • Identify features of green production, logistics, and packaging
  • Define methods for executing the green supply chain and overcoming challenges
  • Identify the steps to monitor and manage carbon
  • Identify strategies for reporting and evaluating performance

Course Outline:

Green Supply Chain Professional Module 1
Understanding the Green Supply Chain
  • Benefits of Green Supply Chains
  • Traditional & Green Supply Chains
  • Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
  • Impact on the Bottom Line
  • Key Contributors to the Profitability
  • Green Supply Chain Planning
  • Life Cycle Management
  • Green Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) 
  • Green Procurement
Green Supply Chain Professional Module 2
Green Supply Chain Execution – Part 1
  • Green Production
  • Benefits, Drivers, and Challenges of Green Production
  • Green Logistics
  • Benefits, Drivers, and Challenges of Green Logistics
  • Green Packaging
  • Benefits, Drivers, and Challenges of Green Packaging
Green Supply Chain Professional Module 3
Green Supply Chain Execution – Part 2
  • Green Marketing
  • Benefits, Drivers, and Challenges of Green Marketing
  • Elements of Green Marketing
  • Supply Loops
  • Benefits, Drivers, and Challenges of Supply Loops
  • Moving Toward Supply Loops
Green Supply Chain Professional Module 4
Carbon Management & Migration Strategy
  • Carbon Measurement
  • Carbon Minimization
  • Carbon Monitoring
  • Carbon Reporting
  • Green Supply Chain Migration Strategy
  • Phase 1: Detailed Analysis
  • Phase 2: Design & Implementation
  • Phase 3: Organizational Change Management
Green Supply Chain Professional Module 5
Continuous Improvement & Performance Evaluation
  • Benefits of Continuous Improvement
  • Prerequisites of Continuous Improvement
  • Methodology of Continuous Improvement
  • Green Supply Chain Benchmarking
  • Pareto Analysis
  • Benefits of Performance Evaluation
  • Performance Evaluation Methodology
  • Measurement Toolkit Performance Evaluation

All necessary materials are included.


System Requirements:

Internet Connectivity Requirements:

  • Cable, Fiber, DSL, or LEO Satellite (i.e. Starlink) internet with speeds of at least 10mb/sec download and 5mb/sec upload are recommended for the best experience.

NOTE: While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system.  This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections.   Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

Hardware Requirements:

  • CPU: 1 GHz or higher
  • RAM: 4 GB or higher
  • Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher.  1920x1080 resolution is recommended for the best experience.
  • Speakers / Headphones
  • Microphone for Webinar or Live Online sessions.

Operating System Requirements:

  • Windows 7 or higher.
  • Mac OSX 10 or higher.
  • Latest Chrome OS
  • Latest Linux Distributions

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

Web Browser Requirements:

  • Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
  • Latest Mozilla FireFox
  • Latest Microsoft Edge
  • Latest Apple Safari

Basic Software Requirements (These are recommendations of software to use):

  • Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
  • PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
  • Courses may require other software that is described in the above course outline.


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