About This Course
This course has been developed to give learners an overview and understanding of what are supply chains, how they work and their critical importance in global trade. Developing a smart and efficient supply chain can mean the difference between success and failure in today’s competitive business environment.
Originally called “logistics” ( meaning movement of goods from one place to another ), this concept has broadened it’s scope over the last 40 years to become “global supply chain”, and involves all the processes to get a product or service to an end user.
The Global Supply Chain Journey Farm to Table course provides an introduction to and overview of all the parts involved in the supply chain and you will learn the following:
The importance of becoming a lifelong learner in today’s fast changing world.
An overview of the channels in the supply chain.
An overview of the journey a product takes from source to destination.
The actors involved in the supply chain process.
The three basic flows in a supply chain.
An overview of challenges that exists in supply chains.
Course Staff
Alice Infeld
Years working at multinational companies Tambrands Inc. and Novartis Pharmaceuticals provided a strong foundation before leaving the corporate world to become a principal in WFExports Inc. in 2003. WFExports Inc.’s primary niche is global supply chain management for MSME’s.
Alice was born and raised in Denmark. She studied commerce at the Copenhagen School of Business and attended University of Toronto where she graduated in International Relations and Physical Anthropology. Further studies included sales and marketing at the American Management Association Europe SA in Brussels.
Michael Young
An early foundation in the legal and business worlds led to the development of WFExports Inc. from 1996. WFExports Inc.’s primary niche is global supply chain management for MSME’s.
Michael was born and raised in Vancouver, Canada. He attended Princeton University:math, Oxford University:law, London School of Economics-SOAS:law, Harvard University:software engineering and MIT:global supply chain.
