The Global Supply Chain Classroom (GSCC) is proud to announce that in June 2021, twenty-one students from ESLI School of Logistics, ESPRIT Industries Campus, France, were the first group to receive the Post-Graduate Global Supply Chain Certificate.
GSCC’s Post-Graduate Global Supply Chain Certificate program enriches supply chain practitioners, and graduates of qualified university-level supply chain programs with global perspectives, insight into international markets and supply chain practices, and business culture.
Prof. Charles Henri Fredouet, who heads up ESLI’s international development, met with Ms Wanda Li, Secretary General of SALC at the ESLI campus in December 2019 to discuss the GSCC initiative to establish a global network of supply chain educators and educational institutions. Following this meeting ESLI joined GSCC as its first partner in Europe.
ESLI along with other leading universities were involved with the planning and design of this innovative post-graduate program. The three main elements of the program are supply chain knowledge, international knowledge which includes both theory and experiential components, and communication capability.
ESLI’s supply chain management program was evaluated and determined to satisfy the supply chain knowledge requirements. The students in this program also took courses in English which met the foreign language ability requirements. To meet the theory component of international knowledge requirements, ESLI students took the GSCC course on Asia-Pacific Supply Chain which consisted of twenty-four hours of online instruction and assignments that exposed participants to the business environment in the Asia-Pacific region, inter-regional trade and supply chains, China’s business environment, analysis of China’s logistics sector, and China’s E-commerce industry.
The course was delivered by Chung Tam, Executive Director, Sino-American Logistics Council, Johnny Jiang, Senior Director, FTI Consulting, and Prof. Tian Xue, Professor, Beijing Wuzi University. Guest lectures from Industry experts provided additional insight into the automotive, food & beverage and luxury goods markets.
The planned experiential component of the program, a study trip to China where the participants were to visit businesses and interact with Chinese counterparts, was cancelled due to pandemic travel restrictions. The China visit was replaced with a team research project where ESLI students studied how companies have adjusted their supply chains in response to the pandemic in four industries; food, healthcare, fashion, and transportation. Each team was assigned a student from Beijing Wuzi University to assist them in their research. Their findings were presented during Interim and final presentations.
Congratulations to all the ESLI students who participated in this program. In total, fifty-four students from ESLI participated in the program. Thirty-two students completed the Asia-Pacific Supply Chain course and were awarded a Certificate of Completion. Twenty-one students specializing in procurement continued on to complete the experiential component and were awarded the Post-Graduate Global Supply Chain Certificate.
Regional supply chain courses covering the economic regions of Europe and North America will be available very soon. ESLI faculty and industry experts has developed the EU Supply Chain course and will be delivering it this Fall to students in China. A North American Supply Chain module is being prepared by faculty members of the University of Rhode Island for delivery in Spring 2022.
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About ESPRIT Industries Campus - ESLI
ESPRIT Industries Campus is a state-funded, higher education and research public institution, settled in Redon (Brittany state, France), which hosts under-graduate and graduate training programs dealing with all areas related to the design and operation of global supply chains. Within this campus, ESLI School of Logistics focuses mainly on the organizational side of global supply chain processes (procurement, warehousing, manufacturing, transport, supply chain management), while ESTI School of Technology focuses mainly on the technical side (electronics, mechanics, robotics, energy management).
