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On campus program
Leading the Future Supply Chain

Build your digital, resilient, sustainable value chain

On campus program

Leading the Future Supply Chain

Build your digital, resilient, sustainable value chain

Location
Lausanne
Length
5 days
Fee
CHF 10,900
Discover new opportunities for your supply chain

Your supply chain agenda has never been greater. In addition to digital transformation, you need to increase your supply chain’s resilience and adaptability to futureproof against market and geopolitical disruptions. You need to leverage AI technologies to remain competitive. And demand from consumers, partners, and regulatory bodies, requires building sustainability across your value chain. You need a supply chain that ensures your organization’s future.

Leading the Future Supply Chain is designed for supply chain leaders and their teams looking for winning solutions to the increasing supply chain challenges and opportunities. Over five inspiring days you will meet with industry experts, learn from latest cases and cutting-edge research to help you navigate ongoing transformations while building more resilient, sustainable value chains. You will address leadership and talent management challenges plus discover how to successfully integrate your supply chain with business strategy.

You will leave the program empowered with the latest knowledge, insights and skills to confidently lead the future of your organization’s supply chain.

Leverage new technologies

Develop a digital supply chain management strategy that embeds intelligent, AI-powered technologies for your business.

Manage global supply chain complexity and risks

Understand and manage global supply-chain complexity and risks.

Lead transformation

Lead organizational change and supply chain transformation.

Future-proof your supply chain

Build a truly resilient, sustainable, digital supply chain.

 

How to make your supply chain a source of competitive advantage.

Program director, Prof. Ralf Seifert explains how you achieve this.

IMD program participants
You and your class

Are you an experienced executive working in procurement, supply chain management, or operations? Are you also a part of a cross-company team in charge of customer/supplier relations, or a business development executive responsible for supply chain?

Then join other like-minded executives from across different industries, cultures, and nationalities for an enriching learning experience. This diverse group of global peers will become a trusted resource and network as you go through your learning journey and advance your career. Read more about the admission criteria.

2023 class profile (average data)

16

years of experience

72%

senior & c-level

44

AVERAGE AGE

10

nationalities

Information Session
Join us on 14 January 2025

Interested in an IMD digital transformation program? Don’t miss this opportunity to get all your questions answered by our Program Advisors at 12pm (CET).

Information Session

Join us on 14 January 2025

Interested in an IMD digital transformation program? Don’t miss this opportunity to get all your questions answered by our Program Advisors at 12pm (CET).

Participants review their program takeaways
“Inspiring, interactive, international program.”
“Challenging, rewarding program that gets you up to speed.”
More participant reviews
Christopher Sgobbo

Director of Manufacturing, The Kraft Heinz Company, USA

Invaluable team experience

It was an invaluable experience to join as a team. The week was filled with enriching learning opportunities, meaningful networking connections, and insightful supply-chain excellence business comparisons.

Juan Manuel Santiago Mendez

Group Aftermarket & Supply Chain Director, Mercedes-Benz Valdisa, Spain

This program is top level

The professors are amazing, so passionate about the future of supply chain. They bring in guest speakers and share in-depth case studies showing you how to develop new business models, how to apply intelligent forecasting using AI and much more. This program is top level.

Nina Heinz

Global Head of Cold Chain Logistics, A.P. Moller-Maersk, France

The practical cases anchor the insights in reality

The practical case studies enable you to anchor the insights in reality. It is also an honor to be with other international participants who bring in decades of learning and experience.

Jasvinder Kaur

Director Global Strategy & Marketing, Henkel, Germany

Extremely enriching experience

Extremely enriching experience. Great content and knowledge from the professors. Also importantly, a very good collection of peers to discuss specific issues with and find how they have solved similar problems and what are the next big things you will be faced with!

Per Aasberg

Head of Market & Procurement – Sr. Director, Lemvigh-Müller, Denmark

It gets you up to speed

This program keeps pace of what is going on in the market, with focus on new priorities like Industry 4.0, digitization, and sustainability. It gets you up to speed.

60 seconds with Ralf Seifert

The challenges and opportunities have rarely been bigger. It’s also a confusing time to work in supply chain. The agenda keeps growing: digital transformation, supply chain resilience, sustainability across your value chain, and new trade barriers.

Meet your program director

It’s a fascinating time to be involved in supply chain. Together we will navigate today’s supply chain complexities, discuss how to accelerate your digital supply chain transformations and address ongoing challenges around sustainability, global resilience, strategy, leadership, and talent issues.

Ralf Seifert
Professor of Operations Management

Ralf Seifert is Professor of Operations Management. His primary research and teaching interests are operations management, supply chain strategy, and digital transformation. His work lies at the heart of one of the most important topics currently facing organizations, as supply chains come under strain due to multiple global changes. He has also worked on industry analysis, competitive strategy, and new venture formation.

Seifert says supply chain management has grown tremendously in importance…

Ralf Seifert is Professor of Operations Management. His primary research and teaching interests are operations management, supply chain strategy, and digital transformation. His work lies at the heart of one of the most important topics currently facing organizations, as supply chains come under…

Ralf Seifert is Professor of Operations Management. His primary research and teaching interests are operations management, supply chain strategy, and digital transformation. His work lies at the heart of one of the most important topics currently…

Ralf Seifert’s publications
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