Supply Chain Management - Fundamentals

Course Objectives

This training focuses on effective planning and management of highly integrated product and information flows from suppliers through the organization to the customer. It provides an in-depth knowledge and practical understanding of all the vital areas across the total supply from planning to execution and control of the operations including feedback loops and capacity considerations.

Course Modules

This training introduces the Supply Chain and the challenges faced by SCM (Supply Chain Management). Thus, SCM to be efficient should include the following modules:

1. Essentials of Supply Chain Management
2. Building a Competitive Infrastructure
3. Improving the Supply Chain

Who Should Attend?

This training is directed to managers involved in administering the company’s operations and logistics in order to add value to the organization’s Supply Chain and impact its performance:

Training Benefits

This workshop will allow attendees to identify opportunities for cost reduction, optimization and overall supply chain performance enhancement. The course enables the participants to:

• Streamline the planning and execution processes
• Quickly and accurately analyze the impacts of proposed Supply Chain solutions
• Manage external relationships (suppliers and clients) and respond to unplanned events
• Improve inventory management and control
• Reduce time and eliminate waste through implementing a formal planning
• Meet operations performance goals without overtaxing IT resources
• Share valuable information by giving multiple users a single, real-time version of the truth
• Enhance risk management by understanding opportunity and rapidly conducting risk trade-off and response
• Improve financial performance & cash-flow by arranging the payment terms and methodologies for exchanging funds across entities within the supply chain