This training provides an opportunity to educate participants on Supply Chain Management (SCM) principles and issues with specific regard to CSR. The increasing of globalisation and business competition raises new challenges and opportunities to manage suppliers down the chain. The relation between SCM and CSR seeks an efficient, holistic and comprehensive approach to SCM and business strategy. Training modules include topics which are common to the other catalogue themes, such as Corporate Social Responsibility, Cooperation for Development and Intercultural Dialogue. Specific topics, duration and the offer of different options to be tailored to the participants’ needs can be summarised in the table below.
| Topic | Workload (hours) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Option A | Option B | Option C | Option D | |
| 1.Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management |
2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2.Data and context around the world | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 3.Supply Chain challenges and opportunities | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 4.Sustainable initiatives and “green causes” | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| 5.Supply Chain Management and CSR | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| 6.Supply Chain Management and CSR (Final project) | 10 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
