Course Description
Supply chain professionals continue to be pressured to deliver superior operational results while at the same time reducing costs. This course will explore key concepts and solutions that can be employed to strike the right balance between supply chain responsiveness and the costs required to deliver desired business results.
This course will deliver actual cost-saving strategies that participants can take back to their firms to drive real supply chain improvement.Global trade has brought about proportionally high levels of risk and uncertainty. In turn, this uncertainty creates a risk spiral that is accompanied by increased cost and reduced levels of service.
Smart organisations must therefore find ways to manage risk, uncertainty and variability and at the same time, look to reduce cost and improve service.
Course Objective:
Delegates attending will be able to show and demonstrate the benefits of this course by:
· Demonstrating the financial results of implementing innovative supply chain concepts
· Understanding the supply chain operations
· Use analytical tools to identify supply chain risk
· Make cost and service improvements
· Gain a framework for continual improvement.
Course Certificate:
Masters Consultant certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total tuition hours of the course.
Course Outline:
Day One
Copy the Best: Supply Chain Benchmarking
· Quantitative vs. qualitative benchmarking
· Types of process frameworks
· Benchmarking against process standards
· Establishing a cross-functional benchmarking team
· Defining performance gaps
· Prioritization and developing a performance road map
Day Two
Inventory Management & Optimization
· Types of inventory
· Applying procurement strategies that maximize inventory turns
· Speeding the cash-to-cash cycle time
· The financial justification for change
· Supplier relationship management: strategies, approaches, and tools
· Supplier collaboration and your company's culture
Day Three
Managing Information to Deliver Supply Chain Excellence
· The importance of ERP systems
· Understanding your company’s IT infrastructure and capabilities
· Approaches to internal systems integration
· IT integration with all your suppliers?
· Normalizing, digitizing, and automating, and accelerating the demand signal
Day Four
A New Paradigm for Outsourcing
· Is your relationship transactional or outcome-based?
· Defining desired outcomes that are measurable
· Developing an effective outsourcing contract
· Designing a pricing model that incentivizes desired behaviours
· Evaluating cost/service trade-offs
· Creating a governance structure that works
Day Five
Performance Management: Defining, Measuring, & Improving your Results
· Rationale and approach to performance management
· Identifying, defining, and tracking your metrics
· Aligning your metrics with corporate goals: creating a cascading metrics program
· Incentives and continuous improvement