Women in Supply Chain Leadership: Strategy, Resilience and Performance
View Dates & OptionsSupply chain leadership is the discipline of balancing service, cost, capacity, inventory, supplier risk and resilience across a system where improving one measure can easily damage another.
Course Overview
This program is designed for women leading or preparing to lead supply chain, logistics, planning, procurement, distribution or integrated operations. It focuses on leadership decisions across the end-to-end supply chain rather than on one technical function in isolation.
Participants work with scenarios involving demand uncertainty, supplier disruption, inventory pressure, capacity constraints, service trade-offs, cross-functional priorities and performance measures. The emphasis is on decision quality, visibility and coordinated response.
For organizations, the program can sit inside supply chain academies, women-in-operations pathways, succession programs or development for managers moving from functional expertise into broader end-to-end responsibility.
Where this program fits
Women supply chain, logistics, planning, procurement and operations managers
Live classroom, live online, or private in-house delivery. Depth and schedule are tailored to the cohort.
End-to-end supply chain thinking, planning, resilience, supplier risk, performance and cross-functional leadership
A supply chain leadership map and improvement agenda for a current business priority
Built for Corporate Cohorts
Private delivery can be aligned to the sponsor’s capability goals, participant roles, internal frameworks, business priorities and real workplace scenarios. HR, L&D, Talent and functional leaders can use the program as a standalone intervention or inside a wider academy, succession or women-in-leadership pathway.
What Female-Forward Means in This Program
The course develops commercial and operational authority in a function where leaders must routinely challenge assumptions, negotiate trade-offs and coordinate across multiple teams and partners.
What You Will Learn
Understand how demand, supply, inventory, capacity and service interact across the system.
Make decisions that balance customer, cost, working-capital and operational consequences.
Identify dependencies, concentration risks and response options before disruption occurs.
Connect performance, risk, collaboration and commercial priorities.
Avoid optimizing one KPI at the expense of the wider system.
Create clarity across sales, operations, procurement, finance and logistics.
Course Outline
Who Should Attend
- Women supply chain managers
- Planning and logistics leaders
- Procurement leaders moving into end-to-end roles
- Organizations developing women for senior operations and supply chain positions
Organizational Benefits
- Strengthen end-to-end supply chain leadership
- Improve cross-functional planning decisions
- Build stronger resilience and supplier-risk thinking
- Prepare women for broader operations roles
- Connect supply chain metrics to business outcomes
Business Problems This Program Is Designed to Address
This program is built around observable workplace problems and business decisions, not generic empowerment themes.
Applied Practice and Scenario Work
Participants use realistic situations to practise analysis, stakeholder communication, trade-offs and decision-making. Private cohorts can adapt the scenarios to the organization without exposing sensitive information.
Practical Tools and Work Products
Participants leave with practical outputs that can be refined and used in their roles after the program.
How Participants Work During the Program
The learning design moves repeatedly between concept, diagnosis, practice and workplace application. Participants define a real problem, test tools or language, build a work product, receive challenge and identify where the learning will be used after the course. This keeps the program anchored in decisions and responsibilities that resemble the roles participants actually hold.
For employer-sponsored cohorts, a participant and manager can agree one live application before delivery, then review what was tried, what changed and what still needs adjustment. Cohort-level patterns can inform future development priorities without pretending that attendance alone caused a business result.
How Participants Work During the Program
Women in Supply Chain Leadership: Strategy, Resilience and Performance is designed as an applied learning experience. Participants repeatedly move from concept to diagnosis, from diagnosis to practice, and from practice to a concrete workplace application. The point is not to finish with a larger set of notes. It is to leave with clearer decisions, stronger language, usable tools and a defined next step in a real role.
Participants define the actual business or leadership problem before selecting a tool or solution.
They test decisions, conversations and frameworks in realistic scenarios where assumptions can be challenged safely.
They create practical outputs such as End-to-end supply chain map, Critical dependency map, Planning trade-off canvas, Supply chain performance scorecard, Resilience action plan, Leadership agenda for use after the course.
Peer and facilitator challenge exposes weak assumptions, missing stakeholders and hidden trade-offs.
Each participant identifies where the learning will be used, who must be involved and what evidence will show progress.
The core pathway covers Supply Chain Leadership as a System, Planning and Decision Trade-offs, Supplier and Network Resilience, Performance and Visibility, Cross-Functional Supply Chain Leadership, Supply Chain Leadership Action Plan. Private cohorts can place more practice around the modules most relevant to the sponsor’s capability priorities while preserving the integrity of the wider program.
For HR, L&D and Program Sponsors
For employer-sponsored cohorts, the strongest design begins with the population and business context. Sponsors can define the participant level, current responsibilities, common decision situations, capability gaps and the work products that would be useful after delivery. This allows examples and practice to feel relevant without reducing the program to organization-specific process training.
- Before delivery: identify one live situation where each participant is likely to use the learning.
- During delivery: use role-relevant scenarios, peer challenge and course-specific work products.
- After delivery: managers can review what was tried, what response it produced and what still needs adjustment.
- At pathway level: cohort patterns can inform the next development priority without treating course attendance as proof of business impact.
Evidence of Application
Useful evidence can include a clearer decision brief, stronger stakeholder preparation, a live map or plan being used in a business process, improved escalation, a better-defined trade-off, or a manager observing more disciplined use of the course framework. These are observable applications rather than guaranteed performance claims.
Leadership Across the Supply Chain Interface
Many supply chain problems are not contained inside one function. A demand decision made in Sales can affect planning, inventory, supplier commitments, production capacity, logistics cost and customer service. A procurement decision can improve unit cost while increasing lead time or concentration risk. A logistics decision can protect service while damaging margin. The program therefore treats cross-functional leadership as a core supply chain capability rather than an optional communication skill.
Participants practise making these interfaces visible: what each function is optimizing, which assumptions are driving the plan, where the constraint sits and which decision belongs at which level. For private cohorts, this can be aligned to the organization’s planning rhythm, supplier model and operating structure without turning the course into software or process-system training.
Delivery Format
The program is live and instructor-led. It can be delivered in a classroom, live online, or in-house. Duration is flexible and should reflect participant level, selected depth, organizational objectives and the amount of applied practice required.
For HR, L&D and business leaders: Explore in-house training or request a customized cohort.
Pricing
The public-course fee follows the current Women at Work offering structure for Saudi Arabia and the GCC. Program length and structure may vary by cohort. Public fees exclude VAT or other applicable taxes.
For in-house or customized delivery, request a proposal.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can this be delivered privately for one organization?
Yes. Private cohorts can be aligned to the participant population, business context, internal language and priority scenarios.
Is the duration fixed?
No. Delivery depth and schedule are adapted to the cohort and organizational objective.
Can we use our own scenarios?
Yes. The facilitator can calibrate practice around common workplace situations while keeping confidential material appropriately protected.
How should managers reinforce the learning?
Agree one or two work applications and review what the participant tried, what changed and what further support is needed.
Can this sit inside a broader development pathway?
Yes. It can be combined with adjacent Women at Work and core TheSkillGrid programs for a defined leadership or functional population.
Is the program only relevant to women?
The program is female-forward in positioning and workplace context, while the underlying professional standards and capabilities are rigorous and business-focused.
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Build the Right Development Pathway
TheSkillGrid can combine this course with adjacent programs into a coherent private cohort or development pathway.
Upcoming Dates & Venues
Explore proposed 2027 dates and venues for this course. The city, trainer, venue, duration and fee are subject to confirmation. Use the proposed-date link to request availability, not a confirmed booking.
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