 | Supply chain management offers both an opportunity and a challenge. The OPPORTUNITY is to forge operating links with your customers, trading partners and suppliers. The CHALLENGE is to create the new vision and overcome internal resistance. Managing the flawless, efficient execution of this goal is what this course deal with. Each of the three days is devoted to one of the core SC&LM activities:
- Demand Management (day one)
- Distribution and Warehousing (day two)
- Supply Chain Relationships (day three)
The course is ideal for any manager managing a high performance supply chain operation.
This course is also part of our Certificate in Supply Chain & Logistics Management.
PROGRAM CONTENT
Day One: Demand Management & Supply
Managing Your Demand and Supply Strategy
- Appropriate methods to forecast demand
- Integrating customer data (orders, POS,forecasts, etc.) into the demand plan
- Balancing inventory drivers of revenue,cost, time, service, supply constraints
- Improving replenishment practices
- Implementing Better Demand & Supply Processes
- Designing effective processes that span business functions: roles, activities and accountabilities
- Driving results with focussed implementation
Day Two: Warehousing & Distribution Planning
The Objectives of Distribution
- Delivering service and fast cycle time
- Improving cost effectiveness, cost of inventory, order accuracy
- Warehousing Design and Operations Issues
- The key principles of space planning
- The most appropriate storage and handling methods
- Optimizing order preparation and stock selection
- Bar codes, radio frequency and stock locator systems
Day Three: Strategic Supply Chain Relationships
Creating Win-Win Relationships
- Why strategic supply relationships
- Getting your organization on-side
- Prioritizing and selecting suppliers
- A framework for achieving joint agendas
- The role of service level agreements
- Managing ongoing relationships successfully
- Evolving from projects to processes
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- How to create integrated, high-performance supply chain processes
- Put today’s supply and demand planning best practices to work for your company
- How to focus your warehousing and distribution operations
- Utilize space better and expand capacity with little or no investment
- Maximize warehouse and distribution productivity
- Setting up productive, win-win strategic supply relationships
- Devise an effective supplier selection process
- Solve problems in your current supply chain process
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