Business – Supply Chain and Operations for Commercial Trucking

Conestoga College’s Business Supply Chain and Operations for Commercial Trucking program will prepare you to work with clients, border crossing agents, and their internal team to be an asset to the supply chain process and optimize business efficiencies and relations. In this program, you will focus on trucking operations, logistics, and business principles. Some of the areas of focus include transportation communication, customer service, freight calculations, hours of service, e-logging legislation, geography, logistics business practices, and a simulation. Your learning will ensure you are well-prepared for a career specifically in the transportation sector in Canada. Graduates are positioned to begin their AZ licensing with an affiliated 3rd party trainer if commercial driving is their career goal.

What You’ll Learn

• Examine the connections between strategic objectives, stakeholder expectations, and the functions, processes, and roles within a supply chain, to support decision-making, problem-solving, and completion of tasks.
• Support supply chain business operations using accounting and financial analysis.
• Identify compliance issues within a supply chain to inform business operations.
• Identify risk mitigation tools and strategies to support business operations within a supply chain.
• Contribute to the acquisition and sale of goods, services, and materials by best practices and stakeholder expectations across a variety of industries.
• Contribute to the planning and scheduling of material requirements and resource allocation, and the management of inventories, for efficient production and fulfillment of customer orders and returns.
• Coordinate the efficient handling and movement of goods, services, materials, and related information within a supply chain.
• Contribute to the identification and management of continuous improvements to functions and processes within a supply chain.
• Use available technologies to enhance work performance and support supply chain functions, processes, transactions, and communications.