Innovation and optimization doesn’t just happen. To get there, manufacturing, operations and supply chain professionals know they need to sharpen their skills in order to promote innovation and optimization. At Caltech CTME, participants learn to employ practical and proven solutions for business problems in technology-driven companies.

The Caltech Center for Technology and Management Education’s operations management programs help executives and managers, technical and non-technical, to use materials, talent, and enterprise resources more effectively. Those abilities help leaders to optimize costs, delivery reliability, and product quality. Participants gain valuable tactical operations and strategic insights needed to manage in today’s complicated global markets.

From supply chain logistics to advanced manufacturing to process optimization, manufacturing and production has become a complex global endeavor. Executives responsible for operations and supply chains must be adept at overcoming an array of challenges: aligning teams, scaling for growth and orchestrating global networks of suppliers and products.

Custom Program Benefits

Your team will learn required skills needed to succeed in competitive business markets as they exist today – and tomorrow.

• Adeptly manage global supply chains and complex processes for orchestration
• Plan, schedule and control complex production processes in order to balance material, capacity, and capital requirements
• Design and manage logistics, a tool for speeding time to customers, significantly reducing total delivered costs, and optimizing inventory deployment and investment
• Apply lean principles and eliminate waste, reduce cycle times and cost, and improve schedule and product performance