Supply Chain Strategy & Analytics Certificate

Build the analytics, AI, sustainability, and strategic leadership skills to transform supply chain operations and drive business impact.

Program Fast Facts

  • Start date: January 4, 2027
  • Live Online Thursdays
    7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. CT
  • Online
    + 80 PDUs and 8.0 CEUs toward recertification
  • Four weeks per course, 16 weeks for the full certificate
  • Full certificate: $3,240 total (4 courses) — save $360 versus paying per course. Single course: $900 per course
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Supply Chain Strategy & Analytics Certificate

Become the Person Your Leadership Turns to for Decisions

If you're a supply chain professional working in planning, sourcing, logistics, operations, analytics or management, you're ready to move beyond day-to-day execution. In 16 weeks of coursework, you'll be able to:

  • Connect logistics, procurement and operations to see the full picture and strengthen your sourcing and network decisions
  • Forecast demand and get ahead of disruption instead of reacting to it
  • Put AI and automation to work, including an overview of the analytics platforms your team already relies on, like Power BI, Tableau, SAP IBP, Kinaxis and Oracle SCM
  • Lead transformation and build the risk, resilience and contingency plans that keep your network running when something breaks
  • Turn performance data into a recommendation your leadership can act on
  • Gathering the data to measure and defend results with KPIs and scorecards

 

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Is This Program Right for You?

  • You're a supply chain professional working in planning, sourcing, logistics, operations, analytics or management, ready to deepen your strategic and analytics capabilities
  • You're an operations or logistics leader, supervisor or manager, such as a plant, materials, transportation or distribution center leader, accountable for process and performance improvement
  • You're a strategic sourcing, category or sales and operations planning specialist positioning yourself for a supply chain strategist or analytics manager role
  • You are transitioning or working in Texas' growing industries, including logistics, energy, transportation, manufacturing, technology or data centers, and need supply chain results you can measure, communicate and lead with confidence

Why This Works

See the Full Picture, From Sourcing to Delivery

Connect how logistics, procurement, operations and global networks work together, so you can spot opportunities and make smarter, more strategic supply chain decisions.

 

Face Your Next Disruption With a Playbook

Work through real examples of disruptions, such as the Suez Canal blockage, semiconductor shortages and Red Sea shipping delays, so you meet your next crisis with a plan.

 

Turn Dashboards Into Decisions

Apply dashboard design principles and build the scorecards your leadership actually reads, then turn them into decisions that improve performance and growth.

 

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Lead Strategy and Transformation

Align supply chain strategy with corporate strategy, lead change through transformation roadmaps, and bring executive decision frameworks back to your team.

 

Prove Sustainability Impact in Numbers

Introduces the fundamentals of sustainable supply chain management, covering the business case for sustainability, core ESG concepts, and how to map and evaluate your supplier network.

 

Show Progress Before You Finish

Earn a shareable digital badge after every course, so your manager and your network see your progress while you're still in the program. Additionally, at the successful conclusion of the full certificate program, a certificate of completion will be awarded

What our students say

"In my role as EVP of Logistics at Medical City Healthcare, I see opportunities to cut costs and waste throughout our supply chain. This course teaches the tools and the step-by-step actions to solve that problem across industries and geographies."

– NAME, SMU Instructor and EVP, Logistics.

What you'll study

Four courses, four weeks each. Courses run in a continuous rotation with no prerequisites, so you can start with whichever one is open and take a single course or all four.

Course 1: Supply Chain Foundations: Logistics, Procurement & Operations
Connect logistics, procurement and operations, and see how each one drives cost, service and competitive advantage. Explore how digital technologies and global trade are reshaping supply chains, and build a foundation in supplier strategy and resilience.

Course 2: Supply Chain Analytics and Applied AI
Explore descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics, plus AI, machine learning and automation, to real planning decisions, and get an overview of the platforms and emerging technologies shaping the future of supply chain analytics.

Course 3: Supply Chain Strategy, Transformation & Resilience
Lead digital transformation, mitigate risk, and build the contingency plans that keep your network running when something breaks. Then develop the strategic leadership skills to align supply chain strategy with corporate goals and lead your team through change.

Course 4: Supply Chain Sustainability, Analytics and Performance
Measure what matters, from KPIs, balance cost, risk and sustainability, and finish with a course project improvement plan built for your own operation.

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Two ways to enroll

Option 1: Full Certificate (Recommended)

Complete all four courses and finish with an SMU certificate and Credly badges you can add to your résumé and LinkedIn, plus a course project improvement plan you can take back to your own operation. You'll earn a stackable digital badge after every course, and the full certificate costs $3,240, a $360 savings versus paying $900 per course.

Option 2: Single Course

Prefer to start smaller? Enroll in any individual course for $900. No course requires another as a prerequisite, so you can start with whichever one is running and apply it toward the full certificate later.

Most learners choose the full certificate for the complete skill set and $360 in savings.

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Credit toward your recertification

The full certificate carries 80 Professional Development Units (PDUs) and 8.0 Continuing Education Units (CEUs), so the hours you put in here count toward keeping your professional credential current.

The Case for Supply Chain Expertise Right Now

Employment for logisticians is projected to grow 17% from 2024 to 2034*, much faster than the average for all occupations, which means more openings for professionals who pair operations experience with analytics.

*BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, Logisticians (2024): https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/logisticians.htm
Salary and employment outcomes are not guaranteed.

 

The Case for Supply Chain Expertise Right Now

Employment for logistics is projected to grow 17% from 2024 to 2034*, much faster than the average for all occupations, which means more openings for professionals who pair operations experience with analytics.

*BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, Logisticians (2024): https://www.bls.gov/ooh/management/logisticians.htm
Salary and employment outcomes are not guaranteed.

Designed and Led by Experienced Industry Professionals

April Winship | Instructor | SHRM-SCP

April Winship, SHRM-SCP, is an HR consultant and founder of Dependable Edge, where she helps organizations build strong teams and people-focused cultures. A University of South Florida graduate with over 20 years of experience across Human Resources, Recruitment, and Operations Leadership in the U.S. and Caribbean, April brings a practical, data-driven perspective to talent strategy. She serves as Programs Director on the HR Tampa Board, teaches a monthly communication course for leaders, and is passionate about using analytics to drive smarter, more human talent decisions.
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Jennifer Currence | Course Designer MBA, SHRM-SCP, PCC

Jennifer Currence is a Senior Partner of HR Soul Consulting, where she delivers HR services, coaching, and customized training programs for leaders. Jennifer earned her MBA with an emphasis in management at the University of Tampa, where she served as a professor for 11 years. She holds advanced certifications in coaching (PCC) and human resources (SHRM-SCP). Jennifer has been published in several industry magazines and is the author of three books on behavioral business competencies in HR. She was named Tampa Bay’s Consultant of the Year in 2017 and was listed as one of the nation’s top 100 Influential HR professionals in Leadership and Development in September 2023.

About SMU

Your certificate comes from SMU Continuing and Professional Education (CAPE), a division of Southern Methodist University, a nationally ranked, globally recognized comprehensive research university in Dallas, Texas, that has offered noncredit learning experiences to the DFW community and beyond for more than 70 years.

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