4-Day Immersive
The Supply Chain T-Leader
Join us for a unique and challenging 4-day immersive simulation, designed to build transformative leaders with a mastery of the end-to-end supply chain (“T-Leaders”).
About the Program
Crafted by experienced supply chain executives, the Supply Chain T-Leader Program offers a realistic and challenging simulation based on real-world cases. During the 4-days, participants will re-shape the operations of a company facing significant external challenges and internal constraints, all with coaching from current and former C-Suite executives.
Participants will emerge with the insights, confidence, and skills required to lead significant operational and organizational change. This immersive, simulation-based development program is designed specifically for leaders steeped in a specific supply chain sub-function (sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, planning, etc.) seeking to elevate themselves to become strategic, transformative, end-to-end supply chain leaders.
DESIGNED, LED, AND ATTENDED BY GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN EXECUTIVES
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"This program offers supply chain leaders a unique chance to benchmark and learn from peers across industries, revealing valuable insights in transformation strategies, change management, and communication with business partners."
Jim Cafone
SVP, Global Supply Chain - Pfizer
Join An Upcoming Session
September T-Leader Program
Dates: September 8-11, 2024
Simulation: "Festival Town": A legacy big-box retailer must navigate a post-Covid inventory crisis, modernize manufacturing operations, and rethink its logistics network to keep up with changing customer behaviors.
Status: Accepting Applications
Location: Chicago, IL
Fee: $10,000
January T-Leader Program
Dates: January 12-15, 2025
Simulation: "Natural Foundries": A leading brand in the CPG Food & Beverage space must modernize its supply chain infrastructure to operate in an environment with rapidly changing consumer preferences.
Status: Accepting Applications
Location: San Diego, CA
Fee: $10,000
April T-Leader Program
Dates: April 6-9, 2025
Simulation: "Westville Chemicals": A growing B2B manufacturer must upgrade sourcing, manufacturing and distribution practices to reliably meet growing demand in a market with increasingly stringent sustainability requirements.
Status: Accepting Applications
Location: Atlanta, GA
Fee: $10,000
Who we work with
Participant Profile
The T-Leader Immersive Program is:
- Designed for mid- to senior-level career supply chain professionals leading teams within a particular process of the supply chain, such as planning, manufacturing, inventory management, or logistics.
- Suitable for leaders aspiring to or already serving in executive-level roles who want to keep current on trends to accelerate delivery.
- Ideal for leaders looking to understand the nuances of interconnectivity between supply chain functions, align supply chain strategy with business strategy, and communicate the implications of technology to broader business teams.
Participants will emerge:
- Able to align supply chain capabilities with the broader business strategy, taking into account all related aspects of a project.
- Skilled at translating supply chain initiatives into business value.
- Significantly improved at communicating with, negotiating with, and partnering with business leaders from non-supply-chain functions.
Participants are expected to:
- Have led teams within a supply chain organization.
- Possess well-practiced leadership and communication skills.
JOIN THE NEXT GENERATION PARADIGM
Benefits to You
Grow beyond your functional expertise into a T-Leader, spanning end-to-end knowledge and responsibilities. Our team of former Chief Supply Chain Officers have identified three areas supply chain leaders must master to succeed in this dynamic new normal.
End-to-End Expertise
Work with seasoned Fortune 500 executives to understand how end-to-end supply chain functions connect with finance, marketing, sales, and other business functions.
Topics of focus include:
• Manage the interconnectivity between planning, sourcing, manufacturing, inventory management, logistics, transportation, and sales.
• Communicate the need for change with the leaders of upstream and downstream supply chain functions.
• Understand concerns and priorities across departments and functions; learning how to relate to non-supply chain executives.
Technology Leadership
Learn from executives from the most innovative technology providers, mastering the transition from one-size-fits-all ERP systems to constellations of agile, light-implementation, best-in-class spot solutions.
• Investigate cutting-edge automation, data collection & standardization, and AI technologies.
• Benchmark progress, techniques, successes and failures with peer organizations.
• Build lasting relationships with technology leaders, investors, and thought leaders.
Change Management
Learn from masters in supply chain change management, ensuring agility and adaptability in processes, technologies, people and teams.
• Connecting supply chain initiatives to relevant, high-priority business problems to gain initiative support, and to ensure stickiness of change.
• Become comfortable making difficult decisions in times of uncertainty.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders and teams.
“You are creating a class of people that doesn’t need consultants.”
Dave Anderson
Managing Partner, Supply Chain Ventures
"The biggest challenge in the path to becoming a supply chain executive is transitioning from being the first violinist to the maestro"
The Immersive Experience
Our Simulation Curriculum
Supply chain operations is a field that requires deep functional expertise.
It requires that our sourcing organization is run by deep sourcing experts; that our manufacturing organization is run by deep manufacturing experts; that our logistics organization is run by deep logistics experts; and that our planning organization is run by deep planning experts.
We call these leaders "I-Leaders."
At a certain point, however, the high-achieving "I-Leaders" must build a higher-level strategic expertise so they can take the next role: orchestrating end-to-end product movement to meet the corporation's strategic and financial imperatives.
We call these leaders "T-Leaders."
The "T-Leader" simulation is designed to accelerate the transition from "I-Leader" to "T-Leader." The program puts traditional "I-Leaders" in a situation where the entire value chain must be transformed--from sourcing through manufacturing, inventory management, logistics, and planning--to restore a once-great company to its rightful place at the top of the industry.
Participants will be forced to think about corporate strategy, finance, sales, and marketing as they make consequential supply chain decisions for the simulated company. They will meet with the CEO, CFO, head of sales, and others in high-stress negotiations to build support and secure resources for critical supply chain initiatives. With coaching from seasoned executives, they will translate supply chain transformation to strategic positioning, sales growth, cash position, and enterprise value.
Participants will learn about the latest approaches, technologies, and trends from executives from the most cutting-edge solution providers. They will be coached by seasoned executives on how to build support and coalition with non-supply chain executives to ensure project approval, adoption, and success.
At the end of the program, participants will have transformed themselves into true T-Leaders, forever changed with a strategic, empathetic, business-first mindset.
The Coaches
Our programs are led by current and former supply chain executives, across a variety of industries and verticals. These experts bring their decades of experience to help grow the leaders of tomorrow.
