coursework
planes, trains, and big rigs
It makes sense that a degree program in intermodal transportation management would offer an interdisciplinary curriculum. After all, who needs to know more about reaching
across different disciplines (or modes) than those in the intermodal field?
The Executive Masters Program offered by the Intermodal
Transportation Institute (ITI) at the University of Denver
includes courses in transportation finance, management and
leadership, and economics as well as classes in U.S. and international law and global trade.
Limited to 25 students per class, the program consists of five
six-day onsite residencies on the University of Denver campus,
one three-day travel seminar to an area with intermodal facilities, and long-distance follow-up instruction. The program is
currently accepting applications for the fall 2009 term.
For more information, visit www.du.edu/transportation/
ExecutiveMastersProgram/.
be a project pro
Project management is a must-have skill for any distribution
professional looking to move up. Villanova University’s online
project management certificate program will help managers
from all parts of the organization learn to manage the scope,
time, and cost of their projects. It will also cover issues related
to budgeting, risk and contingency, resource allocation, quality control, people management, and communications.
Villanova’s eight-week Applied Project Management
Program consists of three courses: “Essentials of Project
Management,” which is required, and a choice of two electives.
For their electives, students can choose from “Mastering
Project Management,” “Project Management Professional
Exam Prep,” “Project Management Capstone,” “Advanced
Strategic Project Management,” “Maximizing Team
Effectiveness,” and “Finance and Accounting for the Nonfinancial Manager.” The exam prep class helps students prepare for the Project Management Institute’s Project
Management Professional certification exam or Certified
Associate in Project Management certification exam.
Classes are led by a professor via online streaming video,
and participants use two-way voice over IP, instant messaging, chat rooms, and message boards to communicate with
teachers and classmates. For more information, visit
www.villanovau.com.
no more failures to
communicate
An annual financial plan that consists of an inaccurate spreadsheet with unexplained, costly variances will not endear you to upper management. If you want to win approval for your projects, you need to be able to align supply chain
decisions with financials and speak the language
of finance. To help supply chain professionals
learn to do that, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will offer a course called “Supply Chain
Finance” this spring.
This two-day executive education course will
teach participants the basics of business case
development, accounting, and budgeting and
help them learn how to assign a value to
improvements. Attendees will leave with a better
understanding of how to integrate operational
risk and uncertainty into their financial plan, pri-oritize their initiatives and understand the initiatives’ financial consequences, and maximize the
likelihood of achieving their operating plans.
The next course will take place April 2–3 on
the university’s campus in Madison. For more
information, visit exed.wisc.edu/supplychain/
scf/ default.asp.
work the network
An effective logistics network depends on cooperation and interaction with supply chain partners.
But in a virtual world, it’s easy to lose sight of how
important these relationships can be. Arizona State
University aims to rectify this with its “Logistics in
Supply Chains” executive education course.
Throughout this online course, instructors will
focus on the logistics network’s role in supply
chain management; how to design an effective
logistics network; and the roles, limitations, and
cost structures of various types of logistics service providers. Course participants will also learn
techniques for working with supply chain partners on forecasting, inventory management, and
disaster planning.
Arizona State will offer the course twice this
year: from April 6–May 10 and from Aug.
10–Sept. 13. For more information, visit
http://wpcarey.asu.edu/exec/oe/logistics-in-
supply-chains.cfm.
