Digital Supply Chain, Industry 4.0 & Control Towers is a structured track of 13 lessons that build a complete, interview-ready understanding of the topic. Work through them in order, then use the quiz and flashcards in each lesson to revise.
What this course covers
- What a Digital Supply Chain Actually Changes - The decisions that get faster or better, separated from the technology itself.
- Enterprise Systems, Planning Software & the Operations Stack - The systems that run operations, and how planning sits on top of execution.
- Data Foundations: Master Data, Integration & Quality - Why most digital programmes fail on master data, and how to fix it first.
- Connected Devices, Sensors & Real-Time Tracking - What is worth instrumenting, and the data volume it actually creates.
- Supply Chain Control Towers and End-to-End Visibility - What a control tower must do to be more than a dashboard.
- Digital Twins and Simulating a Supply Chain - Building a model of the network to test decisions before making them.
- Industry 4.0 on the Shop Floor: Smart Manufacturing - Connected machines, real-time performance and closed-loop control.
- Automation in the Operations Back Office - Automating transactional operations work, and where it becomes brittle.
- Traceability, Serialisation & Distributed Ledgers - Tracking a unit through a chain, and where shared ledgers genuinely help.
- Analytics Maturity in Operations: Reporting to Optimisation - The path from reports to decisions, with a realistic next step.
- Building a Digital Transformation Roadmap for Operations - Sequencing investment so each phase funds and enables the next.
- Where AI Sits Inside the Digital Supply Chain Stack - How AI depends on the data and systems layers beneath it.
- Applied: Designing a Control Tower for a National Network - Metrics, data sources, alerts and the operating rhythm around it.