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12.05.2025
The effective management of supplier relationships is becoming ever more critical in the global business landscape characterized by increasingly intensive competition and rapidly evolving technologies.
The Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management online course focuses on the interphase between different organizations and ways to manage it. The course will take you through a journey that covers the understanding of what Supply Chain Management is, making outsourcing decisions, designing the primary mode for planning and control, and laying the ground for carrying out analysis on different aspects of your supply chain.
The course is designed to support independent study optimally. You can choose when and how to carry out the learning tasks. You will also get a certificate for the completion of the course.
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A unique insight into the relationships between organizations and ways to manage interphases.
The basic frameworks and concepts of supply chain management with practical learning tasks.
A cost-effective and flexible way to deepen your understanding of supplier relationships.
By taking the course, you will learn supply chain management fundamentals. The course provides essential tools, concepts, and frameworks to be applied to your daily work.
This online course benefits professionals from different functions of organizations who need both overall understanding and practical frameworks of supply chain management to be applied in their everyday business.
The course covers the fundamental concepts of supply chain management, vertical integration, push and pull strategies, and supply chain frameworks.
Each core module contains:
Introduction
Video lecture (from 5 to 9 minutes)
A small reflection task
Reading assignment based on a specific article
Knowledge check questions
Review of the key takeaways from the module
Each core module lasts about 1–2 hours, depending on the preferred study style. The length of the whole course, including the summary and final assessment, is about 5–10 hours. The course allows flexible study patterns; you can decide on your schedule and the speed of your progress.
The course videos are subtitled in English.
A Pre-Test for Self-Assessment
Four core modules
Each core module is about 1–2 hours
The Final Assessment
You will receive a certificate of the completion of the course
Max Finne
Max Finne is an Assistant Professor of Information and Service Management at Aalto University School of Business.
Max Finne is an operations, projects, and supply chain management expert. He has specialized in servitization, Industry 4.0, service network management, professional service operations, inter-organizational collaboration, learning analytics, and flipped learning pedagogies. Finne has taught in several Warwick Business School’s prestigious Executive, Full-time, and Distance Learning MBA Programs before joining Aalto University. Even the most demanding student cohorts highly appreciate Finne’s teaching and have awarded him the highest student feedback of the whole teaching team on many occasions.
He has carried out close research collaboration with companies such as ABB, Costain, Finnair, Fujitsu, KONE, NCC, and Skanska. He delivers innovative and engaging teaching with a high impact on learning, showcased through his winning the distinguished Nigel Slack Teaching Innovation Award in 2015, 2016, and 2018.
Max Finne has been awarded Postgraduate Certificate in Academic and Professional Practice with distinction (1st-class honors) from the University of Warwick. It gave him full pedagogical qualification to teach in the UK Higher Education and recognition as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
March 5–6, 2025
Fee: € 650 (+ VAT)
April 8–9, 2025
Schedule April 8–9, 2025
Location Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland
The program will provide specialists in operational roles and business leaders with a comprehensive understanding of how data and analytics can improve industrial processes.
Fee: € 1,900 (+ VAT)
August 20, 2025 to August 2026 or December 2026
Schedule August 20, 2025 to August 2026 or December 2026
Location Aalto University Espoo, Finland & Online
The program helps you build and deepen your expertise in logistics. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of, for example, sustainable supply chains, logistics systems, analytics, and linear programming.
Fee: € 5,900 (+ VAT)
August 25 – September 21, 2025
The program helps to understand what environmental and social sustainability means in the context of a supply chain, and how various approaches and tools can be applied in one’s own organization and supply chain. The program is organized by Aalto EE in Singapore.
Fee: SGD 2,500 (approx. € 1,800)
Fall 2025
This compact program will equip corporate executives with the knowledge and tools necessary to identify, assess, and mitigate risks across the supply chain. It provides a comprehensive understanding of risk management strategies, best practices, and the skills required to lead organizations in navigating supply chain uncertainties.
Fee: € 1,890 (+ VAT)
April 14–15, 2025
Schedule April 14–15, 2025
Location Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland or Live online
Frequency Once a year
The program helps you understand what environmental and social responsibility in the supply chain mean and how they can be applied in your organization. The program is held in Finnish.
Fee: € 2,100 (+VAT)
September 9 – November 11, 2025
Schedule September 9 – November 11, 2025
Location Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
Frequency Once a year
Product management training gives you an overview of effective and efficient product management and its strategy, development, and organization. The training covers the basic product management methods and provides tools to assess and develop a company's product orientation.
Fee: € 3,300 (+ VAT)
September 10, 2025 – May 21, 2026
Schedule September 10, 2025 – May 21, 2026
Location Aalto University, Espoo, Finland and live online
Frequency Once a year
The program is for all who will benefit from having a wide range of knowledge of the company’s industrial property rights. It focuses on patent application processes in Finland and abroad and emphasizes the importance of consistent patenting procedures within companies.
Fee: € 9,400 (+ VAT)
September 16, 2025 - March 31, 2026
Schedule September 16, 2025 - March 31, 2026
Location Live Online
The program contributes to the design of a circular economy by developing new designs and methodologies, improving resource efficiency, re-covering critical raw materials from current levels, and enhancing process design methodologies towards Zero Liquid Discharge of effluents and solid wastes.
Fee: € 2,600 (+ VAT)
November 11, 2025 – May 8, 2026
Schedule November 11, 2025 – May 8, 2026
Location Aalto University, Espoo, Finland and live online
Frequency Once a year
A comprehensive training program in operations and production management that will deepen your ability to develop operations and improve the operational and competitive performance of production.
Fee: € 6,200 (+ VAT)
Spring 2026
Schedule Spring 2026
Location Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland
Intensive production management training, during which you will take a comprehensive look at the key aspects of production operations in a manufacturing company, such as production strategy, material and capacity planning, production as part of the supply chain, and measuring and improving production.
Fee: € 1,470 (+ VAT)
April 20 – September 24, 2026
Schedule April 20 – September 24, 2026
Location Aalto University, Espoo
Frequency Once a year
Designed for experienced procurement professionals, the training provides a comprehensive overview of strategic and effective procurement management. You will deepen your skills in areas such as financial metrics and forecasting, reverse marketing, and supply chain development and improve your process knowledge.
Fee: € 7,950 (+ VAT)
Estimated Study Time: 10 hours
Schedule Estimated Study Time: 10 hours
Location E-learning environment
This online course focuses on the interphase between different organizations and ways to manage it. The course will take you through a journey that covers the understanding of what is Supply Chain Management. Course language: English
Fee: € 200 (+ VAT)
Study time: 2 hours
Schedule Study time: 2 hours
Location Online
This two-hour Aalto EE Master Class delves into the principles and applications of System Dynamics as a modelling tool. After this Master Class, you will have a basic understanding of how to model dynamic systems and how they can be applied in the engineering and manufacturing space.
Fee: € 50 (+ VAT)