Supply Chain & Analytics Professional Certificate

This programme helps supply-chain professionals use data more confidently when planning demand and inventory, measuring performance, managing suppliers, and improving service.\n\nDelegates work with practical analytical questions, dashboard logic, data-quality considerations, forecasting concepts, and decision narratives that support action across procurement, logistics, operations, and leadership teams.

• Gain a sharper working understanding of procurement, contracts, and supply chain management and where it affects performance, risk, or service quality.
• Practise the subject through realistic cases, focused discussion, and practical tools.
• Improve confidence in decisions, communication, and implementation around the topic.
• Leave with practical actions that can be adapted for teams, departments, projects, or client-facing work.

• Define reliable supply-chain measures and data requirements.
• Build practical performance dashboards and decision narratives.
• Apply forecasting, inventory, supplier, logistics, and service-analysis concepts.
• Identify risks, exceptions, trends, and improvement priorities.
• Communicate data-led recommendations to operational and executive stakeholders.

• Supply-chain, procurement, logistics, and operations professionals.
• Planners, inventory analysts, and performance-reporting professionals.
• Managers who need clearer supply-chain insights for decisions.
• Analysts supporting supply-chain improvement initiatives.

Instructor-led demonstrations, data interpretation exercises, dashboard workshops, supply-chain cases, facilitated peer review, and action planning.

Core coverage includes:

- Supply-chain data foundations, definitions, quality, and governance. - Key performance indicators, dashboard design, and decision narratives. - Demand, inventory, supplier, logistics, and service analytics. - Forecasting, segmentation, exceptions, trends, and root-cause analysis. - Risk, resilience, scenario analysis, and prioritisation. - Turning insights into operational and executive action.

Data and KPI exercises, dashboard review, scenario analysis, daily knowledge checks, and a final supply-chain insight presentation.

Participants who successfully complete the programme and its internal assessment receive the Professional Achievement Certificate issued by York British Academy.\n\nThis is a York British Academy professional development programme. It does not award, replace, or represent a third-party analytics or supply-chain credential.