SUPPLY CHAIN ORGANISATION AND STRATEGY

STUDY AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT   

Effective supply chain management is essential for business growth, prosperity and profits, and the principles apply to all organisations; therefore trained supply chain personnel are in high demand so this is a wise career choice. It is helpful for anyone looking for careers in, or aiming for advancement in logistics and supply.

SUMMARY OF MAJOR TOPICS COVERED INCLUDE:

• Forecasting supply chain requirements, methods and techniques of forecasting.
• Problems and uncertainties of predicting supply needs, collaborative forecasting.
• Ensuring flexibility and quick response in supply chain management.
• Variations in demand, controlling lead times, dealing with prices and costs.
• Monitoring, noting and assessing trends.
• Inventory control and policy decisions, deciding upon inventory location points.
• Managing the flows of goods and services.
• Inventory appraisal and monitoring, categories and types of inventory.
• The objectives of holding inventory, pull and push inventory systems.
• Materials Resource Planning (MRP).
• Pipeline inventories, aggregate control of inventories, supply-driven inventory control, virtual inventories.
• Purchasing and supply scheduling, the decisions involved, storage and handling systems, costs.
• Mathematical models relating to purchasing, supply and scheduling.
• Facility and site selection – the factors involved.
• Planning, design and operational needs of sites and warehouses.
• Materials handling systems, planning and designing them.
• Location strategy and decisions, single and multiple facilities location.
• Factories, dynamic warehouse location, design and control of channels.
• Network planning and product flows: data sources and checklists.
• Logistics research, tools for analysis in network planning.
• Facility costs and their capacity; the configuration of networks.
• Benchmarking and quality, monitoring efficiency.
• Supply chain organisation and control: the differing choices.
• Orientation and positioning of the supply chain.
• Inter-functional and inter-organisational management, and integrated planning.
• The control process; managing, developing and understanding the control framework.
• Data measurement and analysis relating to the supply chain.