Supply Strategy For Competitiveness
Audience:
General Managers, Purchasing/procurement Managers, Operations
Managers, Logistics/transportation Managers, Inventory Managers, who work
in various decision making capacity to improve the firms’ profit by reducing
costs, improving quality, improving delivery speed, improve flexibility (variety),
and improve customer service.
Objectives:
By the end of this training program, each participant will be able:
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To understand the critical elements involved in supply chain
management,
To understand the roles that the purchasing function, logistics
function, and inventory managers have in improving the firm profit
To acquire the relevant skills: to implement the state-of-the art
purchasing strategies, logistics strategies, and inventory best
practices,
To acquire the relevant skill practice how to select, evaluate, and
develop close relationships with suppliers, logistics service
providers,
To understand the outsourcing strategy
Course Outline:
 What is Supply Chain Management (SCM)?
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Definitions and SCM key concepts
Why SCM have become strategically critical
SCM importance
SCM complexity
SCM challenges
SCM conflicting objectives
SCM new challenges,
Exercise
 The SC Manager Skills
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Leadership
Communication Skills
Conflict Resolution Skills
Team building
Measuring performance
 The Purchasing Managers
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Types of purchasing
Sourcing-related activities
Distinguish the purchasing cost, total cost of ownership, and
purchasing cost ratio to the sales
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Transition to SCM
Designing a relationship with cooperation and trust
How to evaluate and select suppliers?
Supplier performance measurement matrix
Exercises – Supplier evaluation 7 Total costs of ownerships
 The Sourcing-Activity
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Access to external markets
Supplier development and relationship management
Supplier selection and evaluation
Purchasing cost management
Quality management
Supply Risk
Purchasing research & planning
Exercise – Developing a WBS for a project
Interface Between Purchasing, Marketing, and Logistic
 Inventory Management
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Types of inventory
Function of inventory
Managing dependent and independent inventory
Inventory costs
Purpose of inventory
Objectives of inventory
Inventory control techniques
 Logistics Management
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The role of logistics in SCM
The importance of logistics
Logistics -- traditional view
Logistics – integrated view
Logistics Key activities
Logistics Organization
Logistics strategy
o Lean logistics
o Agile logistics
 Logistics Outsourcing
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Third Party Logistics (3PLs) service providers
Benefits of outsourcing to 3PLS
Challenges of outsourcing to 3PLS
Techniques in managing resources, and refining the project plan
o Resource Leveling
o Resource Smoothing
o Project Crashing
 Warehousing Management
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Discuss the strategic value-adding role warehousing plays in the
logistics system
Explain the basic rational for warehousing in light of transportation
consolidation Monitoring
Develop an analytical framework for basic warehousing decisions,
Distinguish between the different warehouse activities requiring
space in the warehouse design,
Introduce the major principles of warehouse layout design
Compare the use of private versus public warehousing,
Discuss public warehousing services, regulation, and pricing,
Exercise on analytical framework