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Laura Sivula to Lead Aalto EE's International Business and Singapore Office
20.01.2025, Anu Haapala
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.
August 26 – September 22, 2024
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)
Start December 2025
Schedule Start December 2025
Location Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland
Frequency Once a year
The program explores production strategy as part of a company’s business strategy. The program provides a broad toolkit for each level of production and helps participants to develop operations already during the program.
Fee: € 5,400 (+ VAT)
May 21–22, 2025
Schedule May 21–22, 2025
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)
January 16–17, 2024
Schedule January 16–17, 2024
Location Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland
This is a part of Patentit-Teollisuus-Tekniikka program. Content: competitor monitoring, acquisition and utilization of patent information new technologies & IPR, interpretation of the scope of patent protection, patent disputes and infringements, patent matters (including appeal proceedings) in the market court.
Fee: € 1,600 (+ VAT)
February 5–6, 2025
Fee: € 1,450 (+ VAT)
February 13–14, 2024
Schedule February 13–14, 2024
Location Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland
This is a part of Patentit-Teollisuus-Tekniikka program. Content: Industrial property rights in different countries and continents, patenting in the USA.
Fee: € 1,600 (+ VAT)
March 5–6, 2025
Fee: € 650 (+ VAT)
April 3–4, 2025
Fee: € 1,450 (+ VAT)
April 16–17, 2024
Schedule April 16–17, 2024
Location Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland
This is a part of Patentit-Teollisuus-Tekniikka program. Content: EPC European Patent Convention, PCT Patent Cooperation Treaty, Euro-PCT.
Fee: € 1,600 (+ VAT)
April 8 – October 9, 2025
Schedule April 8 – October 9, 2025
Location Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland and Aalto University, Espoo and live online
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: € 7,600 (+ 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)
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)
June 11-12, 2024
Schedule June 11-12, 2024
Location Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland
In this module, we delve into the objectives, capabilities, and metrics of strategic procurement. We contemplate the significance of external resource networks in increasing revenue and how external resources are organized into manageable units and differentiated operational models are formed for them. Analyzing supplier markets and developing market knowledge are ways to increase the value of procurement and enhance collaboration opportunities within the organization. We also examine total cost thinking and how it can be practically implemented.
Fee: € 1,690 (+ VAT)
May 7–8, 2025
Fee: € 650 (+ VAT)
May 21–22, 2024
Schedule May 21–22, 2024
Location Aalto University Töölö, Helsinki, Finland
This is a part of Patentit-Teollisuus-Tekniikka program. Content: active exploitation of intangible assets, valuation of industrial property rights, counterfeiting, franchising, licensing, open source.
Fee: € 1,600 (+ VAT)