Hello everyone and welcome to the Certified
Supply Chain Demand Planning and Forecasting
professionals course or CSCD course. My name is Mark Rodgers and I'll be
your instructor for this course. Professionally, I am a university
professor at Rutgers University in the Department of Supply Chain Management,
and I've been a professor here for about 5 1/2 almost six years.
Academically, I've got my PhD in industrial and Systems Engineering, along with Masters degrees and
statistics Industrial engineering and pharmaceutical engineering, and undergraduate degree in
ceramic engineering as well. So I kind of have an interesting
varied background, if you will. On top of that, I do have a lean 6 Sigma
Greenbelt and black belt as well. So I am certified in those areas as it
relates to process improvement in analytics. Professionally, I also,
prior to my academic life as a professor here at Rutgers University.
I've also spent a number of years in industry, in the pharmaceutical space,
management consulting, telecommunications, and in the public sector. Many of these roles were
in varied capacities, many of which were related to supply chain
analytics and supply chain operations, and also in the management consulting space
informing clients on the best sets of. Strategic decisions to make based
on their data and their needs and the goals of their organizations.
As relates to the course, um, this course is going to be structured into 10 distinct modules.
The modules kind of will cover major topics such as inventory management, planning, forecasting,
sales and operations planning, scheduling, service operations, things like that that are really
critical to the operations and supply chain strategy of a firm.
Really, the purpose of this course is to. Cover a couple things and really high level topics. 1st,
to introduce you all to some of the really important issues that managers face in the planning,
controlling and managing of operations and supply chains. Second, we want to equip you with the
best practices and the related analytical tools and models to help you solve these challenges.
And then third, we want to equip with the know how to apply these models
within certain settings ranging from manufacturing settings to even service settings as well.
So with that said, we hope that you have a great experience in this course and if
you have any questions or concerns, you can always reach out to me and I'll be happy to give you
any sort of guidance necessary. Welcome aboard.