Anyone aware of any good (free) resources to brush up on supply chain and planning best practices? A little rusty from my undergraduate days and trying to understand if there have been any drastic changes to SCM best practices in the last 7-8 years.

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I try to read through cases and knowledge transfer pages from big 4 or other firms as often as I can.

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ZS1 - Where can I find these use cases and info ?

MIT has lots of free supply chain courses
I think it’s called MIT MICROMASTERS

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It’s always changing, it also depends highly on the industry

Supply Chain Management by Sunil Chopra. It’s focused mostly in Planning. I like that it has exercise examples being solved in excel.

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