Supply Chain and Logistics Planning Executive Programme
Prepare your leadership team to design and operate resilient, high‑performance logistics networks in an era of geopolitical shifts, climate pressure, regulatory complexity and rapid digital innovation. This intensive executive programme brings together domain expertise across maritime & port operations and aviation, land and intermodal logistics, and shows how to turn disruption into strategic advantage using data, AI and practical playbooks.
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What you’ll learn
- Future-ready perspectives: Scan megatrends (digital disruption, growing e-commerce activity, sustainability, changes in global trade patterns and evolving workforce) and translate them into strategic choices.
- Maritime & port focus: network design, capacity planning, terminal operations, resource coordination, port optimisation, and digital twin solution.
- Aviation, land & intermodal focus: airport/air cargo capacity, multimodal routing, last‑mile orchestration, urban logistics and flow optimisation.
- Digital transformation: applying big data, AI/ML forecasting, visibility platforms and automation to enable more responsive and resilient decision-making.
- Risk management & governance: risk management frameworks, contingency plans, building resilience, tax optimisation for cross‑border trade, supply chain governance.
Learning outcomes
- Ready‑to‑use scenario plans and contingency playbooks for common shocks (route disruptions, port congestion, demand swings).
- Risk management framework and strategies for supply chain risk resilience
- Data‑driven actions to improve throughput, asset utilisation and multimodal efficiency.
- A roadmap to pilot and scale AI solutions with appropriate governance.
Who should attend
Senior and mid‑level executives in supply chain, logistics, operations, port/terminal management, procurement, transport planning, and digital transformation leaders responsible for end‑to‑end logistics strategy. Join us to turn disruption into advantage – build adaptive, cost-effective supply networks ready for the realities of the future.
Format & delivery
Interactive executive sessions combining targeted lectures, case studies and peer discussions.
Programme Director
Associate Professor Sarah Cheah
Dr Sarah Cheah is an Associate Professor at NUS Business School, with research and practice in corporate entrepreneurship, sustainability, and technological innovation. Her work extends into the logistics and maritime sectors — she received Singapore Maritime Institute funding for a project benchmarking maritime research, technology, and innovation clusters, as well as NOL Foundation funding for scenario planning and forecast of maritime trading and shipping. She is affiliated with the NUS Centre for Maritime Studies, reflecting her interdisciplinary engagement across transport and trade ecosystems.
Her recent book with Routledge, Corporate Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, features case studies of logistics and transportation companies such Legend Logistics Limited on sustainable shipping through digital transformation and Uber on rapid scaling through autonomous technologies. As a Member of the Board of Directors at the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Singapore (CILT) and former Vice President of A*STAR commercialization arm, she brings extensive expertise in innovation management and logistics. She has engaged with Singapore's aviation sector, advocating physical AI and robotics solutions to optimize gateway services, in research commercialization projects funded by the National Robotics R&D Program Office.
Find out more about our courses:
Maritime & Port Logistics
Aviation/Land & Intermodal Logistics