A Balanced Approach To Supply Chain Management Course Schedule
Venue | Start Date | End Date | Details |
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Dubai , UAE | 17 - 12 - 2023 | 28 - 12 - 2023 |
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Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia | 24 - 12 - 2023 | 4 - 1 - 2024 |
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Paris , France | 17 - 12 - 2023 | 28 - 12 - 2023 |
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Dubai , UAE | 28 - 1 - 2024 | 8 - 2 - 2024 |
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London , UK | 21 - 1 - 2024 | 1 - 2 - 2024 |
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Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia | 14 - 1 - 2024 | 25 - 1 - 2024 |
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Istanbul , Turkey | 7 - 1 - 2024 | 18 - 1 - 2024 |
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Istanbul , Turkey | 28 - 1 - 2024 | 8 - 2 - 2024 |
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Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia | 21 - 1 - 2024 | 1 - 2 - 2024 |
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Paris , France | 28 - 1 - 2024 | 8 - 2 - 2024 |
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Dubai , UAE | 25 - 2 - 2024 | 7 - 3 - 2024 |
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Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia | 18 - 2 - 2024 | 29 - 2 - 2024 |
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Istanbul , Turkey | 11 - 2 - 2024 | 22 - 2 - 2024 |
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London , UK | 4 - 2 - 2024 | 15 - 2 - 2024 |
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Paris , France | 25 - 2 - 2024 | 7 - 3 - 2024 |
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Dubai , UAE | 17 - 3 - 2024 | 28 - 3 - 2024 |
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London , UK | 10 - 3 - 2024 | 21 - 3 - 2024 |
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Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia | 3 - 3 - 2024 | 14 - 3 - 2024 |
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Istanbul , Turkey | 24 - 3 - 2024 | 4 - 4 - 2024 |
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Istanbul , Turkey | 17 - 3 - 2024 | 28 - 3 - 2024 |
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Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia | 10 - 3 - 2024 | 21 - 3 - 2024 |
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Paris , France | 17 - 3 - 2024 | 28 - 3 - 2024 |
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Course Description
Introduction
Reflecting the latest practices, trends, and emerging developments, this course guides you step by step through the management of all supply chain activity--including issues related to both domestic and global supply chains. Comprehensive, one-of-a-kind coverage encompasses operations, purchasing, logistics, and process integration.
Course Objectives
On completion of this course you should be able to:
- Describe a supply chain and define supply chain management.
- Describe the objectives and elements of supply chain management.
- Describe local, regional, and global supply chain management activities
- Describe a brief history and current trends in supply chain management
- Understand the bullwhip effect and how it impacts the supply chain
Course Outline
Supply Chain Management: An Overview
- Supply chain management defined
- The importance of supply chain management
- The origins of supply chain management
- The foundations of supply chain management
- Current trends in supply chain management
Supply Issues in Supply Chain Management
- Introduction to Purchasing management
- The role of supply management in an organization
- The Manual Purchasing system vs. Electronic Procurement systems
- The Make-or-Buy decision
- Roles of the supply base
- Purchasing Organization and the advantages of Centralization and Decentralization
- Procurement in Government and Nonprofit Agencies
Creating and Managing Supplier Relationships
- Building trust
- Shared Vision and Objectives
- Personal Relationships
- Mutual Benefits and Needs
- Commitment and Top Management Support
- Change management
- Performance metrics
- Continuous improvement
Ethical and Sustainable Sources
- Ethical and sustainable sources defined
- Developing ethical and sustainable sources strategies
- Ethical and sustainable sourcing initiatives
- Early supplier involvement
- Strategic alliance development
- Rewarding supplier performance
- Benchmarking successful sourcing practices
Demand Forecasting
- Introduction to demand forecasting
- The importance of demand forecasting
- Forecasting techniques
- Forecast accuracy
- Collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment
Resource Planning Systems
- Operations planning
- The aggregate production plan
- The master production schedule
- The material requirement plan
- Capacity planning
- The distribution requirements plan
- The legacy material requirements planning systems
- The development of enterprise resource planning systems
- Implementation
Inventory Management
- Introduction to Inventory Management
- Dependent demand Vs. Independent demand
- Concepts and Tools of Inventory management
- Inventory models
- The Economic Order Quantity model
- The Quantity Discount Model
- The Statistical Reorder Point
Process Management – Lean and Six Sigma in the Supply Chain
- Lean production and the Toyota production system
- Lean thinking and Supply Chain Management
- The Elements of Lean
- The origins of Six Sigma quality
- Comparing Six Sigma and Lean
- Six Sigma and Supply Chain Management
- The statistical tools of six sigma
Distribution Issues in Supply Chain Management
- Transportation fundamentals
- Warehousing and Distribution
- The impact of Logistics on Supply Chain Management
- Environmental sustainability in logistics
- Logistics management software applications
- Global logistics and Reverse logistics
Customer Relationship Management
- Definition of Customer relationship management
- Key tools and components of CRM
- Segmenting customers
- Predicting customer behaviors
- Customer value determination
- Automated sales force tools
- Designing and implementing a successful CRM program
- Recent trends in CRM