Supply Chain Leadership

Programme type
On Campus Open Programme
Location
On campus
Start date
1 Jun 2026 - Open
Duration
1 week, full-time
Commitment
5 days
Department
Department of Management

Overview

Convert your supply chain into a source of strategic advantage

Managing your supply chain can feel reactive. From geopolitical uncertainty to climate concerns, regulatory to logistical bottlenecks, it’s easy to see supply chain management as a source of endless risk, challenges and setbacks. But what if you could turn this around? What if your supply chain leadership could become a source of competitive advantage for you and your organisation? Supply Chain Leadership empowers you to see the bigger picture, to align your supply chains to your organisational goals, and to build the strategies that can not only withstand shock but help forge long-term resilience and strategic advantage in navigating dynamic competitive and regulatory landscapes today and tomorrow.

Impact

A profound and transformational learning experience for you. Immediate and actionable insights for your organisation.

Benefits for you

Benefits for your organisations

Faculty Overview | Supply Chain Leadership

How can leaders build resilient supply chains? | LSE Executive Education

"Organisations today are faced with critically important choices in how they manage their supply chains. Is it better to commit to fewer suppliers and forge long-term, non-adversarial relationships, that can see you learn from each other, tailor and innovate as you build mutual trust and expertise? Or are there advantages to shorter-term transactions that leave plenty of scope for competition and the space to pivot if market conditions suddenly change?"
Professor Rocco Macchiavello

Programme content

Key topics:

Strategy and competitive advantage

Governance of transactions and relational contracts

Sourcing Systems: Relational versus spot, and organisational alignment

Supply chain risk, resilience & the future of supply chains

Data in Supply Chains

Monitoring and evaluation for supply chains

Sustainability, ESG, and regulation

Leading through the supply chain

How you learn

Supply Chain Leadership integrates cutting-edge research on supply chain management as a source of competitive advantage. The programme leverages a wealth of case studies from many of the world’s tier- one organisations, structured project work, peer to peer discussion and collaboration and classroom debate to apply the learning to your specific context, organisational needs and challenges.

Who attends?

Supply Chain Leadership is designed for senior executives who have responsibility for managing and shaping supply chains.

Participants include:

Chief Supply Chain Managers
Logistics Managers
Operations Managers
Purchasing Managers
Demand Planners

Why LSE?

LSE is built on a long-established tradition of interdisciplinary enquiry and research at the inflection point where challenges facing businesses, organisations and society intersect. Supply Chain Leadership fully leverages this proud tradition, blending frontier economic and management research and next-generation pedagogy to explore the challenges and trade-offs in supplier management, the use of data, risk management, leadership and governance capabilities to equip participants with the comprehensive understanding and insights, and prepare them to lead change in their organisations.

Faculty

Department overview

The Department of Management at LSE is a world-class centre for research and education in business and management, that draws fully on the LSE tradition of inter-disciplinary academic excellence. Ranked #2 worldwide for business and management by the QS World University Rankings 2019, the department informs and inspires the very best in management in practice by challenging and enhancing understanding of people, teams, organisations and markets, as well as the economic, psychological, social, political and technological contexts in which they operate worldwide. 

Fees and entry requirements

Tuition fee: £7,750

This covers all tuition, course materials, daily lunches and networking events. You will receive an LSE certificate of completion at the end of the programme.

Entry requirements

All LSE executive education participants are required to have:

Fluency in English, proficiency level or working knowledge of the language is essential.
A good undergraduate degree or significant work experience in a relevant role(s).
Minimum five years’ professional experience. Typically our participants have more than ten years’ work experience, but we will consider those with less experience who have enjoyed an accelerated career path to a senior level.