Free courseBusiness & Administration
Supply Chain Basics: How Goods Get to the Shelf
Learn how a product travels from raw material to the shelf: planning, sourcing, storage, transport, performance measures and risk. Five short lessons and a quiz, with a certificate of completion.
60minutes
5lessons
1final quiz
Freecertificate of completion
What you’ll be able to do
- Explain what a supply chain is and describe the product, information and money flows
- Build a simple moving-average demand forecast by hand
- Compare suppliers using total cost instead of unit price alone
- Choose between road, rail, air, marine and pipeline transport for a given shipment
- Calculate fill rate, on-time delivery and perfect order rate
- Describe the bullwhip effect and rank supply chain risks by likelihood and impact
Curriculum
01
Course lessons
5 lessons · module quiz- 01
What a supply chain is and who is in itLesson - 02
Planning demand and sourcing from suppliersLesson - 03
Making, storing and moving goodsLesson - 04
Measuring performance and managing riskLesson - 05
Putting it together: one order, start to finishLesson - 06
QUIZSupply Chain Basics: final quizQuiz