Optimization, Resilience, and Digitalization

This capstone unit integrates advanced strategies for improving revenue and reducing costs while building resilient, sustainable, and digitally enabled supply chains. Students will explore analytics, emerging technologies, risk and crisis management, circular practices, and supplier/partner strategies to design and measure high-performing global logistics systems, building on prior foundational units and preparing for applied capstone or workplace implementation.

Learning Objectives

• Analyze supply chain performance using scorecards, dashboards, control towers, and business intelligence to identify specific revenue growth and cost-reduction opportunities
• Apply digital and emerging technologies (ERP, CRM, SRM, blockchain, AI, modeling software, and sandbox environments) to design resilient, omnichannel, and circular supply chain processes
• Evaluate and mitigate supply chain risks by developing continuity, crisis-response, supplier/3PL management, and finance/payment strategies (including freight audit/payment and adjusted payment terms)
• Demonstrate sustainable sourcing, ethical procurement, and circular-economy practices and measure outcomes using sustainability metrics and supplier scorecards