MITx MicroMasters® Program in Supply Chain Management
Gain the technical and conceptual foundation needed to solve complex global supply chain challenges with confidence through the MITx MicroMasters Program in Supply Chain Management.
Program Information
Certificate Track
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About this Program
This graduate-level program from MIT combines rigorous academic content with practical applications used by leading companies around the world. You will learn how to use data, models, and technology to make better decisions across forecasting, inventory management, transportation, network design, and supply chain systems.
Whether you are looking to advance your career, transition into supply chain management (SCM), or deepen your technical expertise, the program provides a flexible pathway to build in-demand skills at your own pace.
Learners can enroll and begin learning for free, or pursue the verified track to earn the MicroMasters credential. The credential demonstrates mastery of advanced supply chain concepts and may also provide a pathway into select graduate programs, including MIT’s top-ranked master’s degree in supply chain management.
Please be advised that certain courses in the program may require online proctoring for assessments. Specific details will be provided at the start of the given course.
What you'll learn
- Apply probability, statistics, and optimization techniques to real supply chain problems
- Make data-driven trade-offs across forecasting, inventory, and transportation
- Design and evaluate supply chain networks, as well as financial and information flows
- Understand how supply chains behave as interconnected, dynamic systems
- Explore the role of technology, data systems, and software in modern supply chains
- Develop an end-to-end understanding of supply chain management from strategy to execution
Courses
To complete this program, you must take 6 required courses.
Required Courses
How you'll learn
Real-World LearningLearn from MIT faculty and experts who ground their teaching in real-world cases rather than mathematical models, making the material approachable for all.
Meet your instructors
Yossi Sheffi
Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics/ Elisha Gray II Professor of Engineering Systems, MIT
Dr. Yossi Sheffi is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he serves as Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (MIT CTL). He is an expert in systems optimization, risk analysis, and supply chain management, which are the subjects he teaches and researches at MIT. He is the author of many scientific publications and nine books.
Under his leadership, MIT CTL launched many new educational, research, and industry/government outreach programs, leading to substantial growth. He founded the MITx MicroMasters in Supply Chain Management. He is the founder and the Director of MIT's Master of Supply Chain Management degree. He also led the international expansion of MIT CTL by launching the Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) global network of academic centers of education and research. The network includes centers modeled after MIT CTL in Zaragoza, Spain; Bogota, Colombia; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
From 2007 to 2011 he served as the Director of the MIT Engineering Systems Division, where he set a strategy, revamped the PhD program, and set the division for future growth.
Outside the university Professor Sheffi has consulted with governments and leading manufacturing, retail and transportation enterprises all over the world. He is also an active entrepreneur, having founded and co-founded five successful companies.
Dr. Sheffi was recognized in numerous ways in academic and industry forums and was on the cover of Purchasing Magazine and Transportation and Distribution Magazine. In 1997 he won the most prestigious recognition given by the Council of Logistics Management—the Distinguished Service Award. In 2006 he won the Aragón International Prize. In 2010 he became an honorary Doctor (Doctor Honoris Causa) of the University of Zaragoza in Spain and in 2011 he was awarded the Salzberg Medal and Award for "outstanding leadership and innovations in Supply Chain management" by the University of Syracuse. He is also a life fellow of Cambridge University's Clare Hall College.
He obtained his B.Sc. from the Technion in Israel in 1975, his S.M. from MIT in 1977, and Ph.D. from MIT in 1978. He now resides in Boston, Massachusetts.
