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Module:
Principles of Supply Chain
Duration: 10 Hours
License: 12 Month
Objectives:
Successful Supply Chain Management ensures
that an organization is efficient, effective and retains
competitive advantage. After completing this 4 Module
Programme, you will be able to identify the key elements
of your Supply Chain, understand and evaluate the costs
involved in SCM, and understand the key organizational
issues facing companies that have identified SCM as a
key competency to their stakeholder base.
Target Audience:
- Individuals wishing to pursue or advance a career
in Supply Chain Management
- Individuals working in organizations outside of
Supply Chain Management with little understanding
of how a Supply Chain works or integrates into a total
business unit
- Corporations wishing to use these Modules as part
of a general company wide induction programme
- Individuals working in a particular Supply Chain
function but with limited knowledge of how the total
Supply Chain operates or interacts with each other
Module Outline:
Module 1 - Understanding
the Supply Chain
Topic 1: Supply Chain Overview
In simple terms, supply chain management is the integration
and co-ordination of organizational activities, buy,
make, move sell and return. Successful supply chain
management ensures that an organization is efficient,
effective and retains competitive advantage.
Topic 2: Supply Chain Elements – Buy &
Make
After completing this topic, you will be able to identify
the activities involved in the ‘buy' and ‘make'
elements of the supply chain incorporating strategic
and operational procurement, elimination of inventory
buffers, lean manufacturing and design for manufacture.
Topic 3: Supply Chain Elements – Move
& Sell
After completing this topic, you will be able to identify
the activities involved in the ‘move' and ‘sell'
elements of the supply chain incorporating warehousing
& distribution operations, contract manufacturing,
and fulfillment of customer demand.
Topic 4: Supply Chain Costs
This topic covers the cost involved in Supply Chain Management
and includes examples of calculating supply chain costs.
Module 2- Organisation & Structures for Effective
SCM:
Topic 1: Internal Supply Chain Structures
Management of the supply chain is made easier if information
and materials flow in a co-ordinated and ‘real time'
manner and where there is collaboration between all activities
and information along the entire supply chain.
Topic 2: Information in the
Supply Chain
The success of contemporary, highly sophisticated supply
chains has been made possible by extracting, analyzing
and managing information delivered through modern information
system technology allowing for collaboration between all
information points.
Topic 3: External Supply Chain
Structures
There has been a growth of business networks made up of
supplier partnerships and strategic alliances as a result
of the move to reduce total lead times, reduce inventories
ad achieve time-advantage over competitors.
Module
3 – Supply Chain Collaboration & Alignment:
Topic 1: World Class Supply Chain Alignment
In response to global market conditions, many organizations
have had to define new strategies, process models, and
performance measurements. Restructuring efforts have focused
on functional and process excellence.
Topic 2: Technology and the
Supply Chain
The past 20 years has seen the development of solutions
that enable cross-organizational information flow, linking
customer and vendor systems, and simplifying the management
of outsourced supply chain components.
Topic 3: Best Practice Techniques
In order to achieve a faster, cheaper, and better response
to customer requirements, market leaders are co-ordinating
their activities and integrating partnerships, processes,
tools, and information across the supply chain.
Topic 4: SCM implementation
Considerations
An organization should carefully consider the implications
for its internal and external supply chains when contemplating
new initiatives such as strategic procurement, international
trading, outsourcing and introduction of IT systems.
Module 4 – Supply
Chain Measurement & Control:
Topic 1: Benefits of Supply
Chain Management
Organizations that are aggressive about supply chain management
and introduce best practices in their supply chains will
reduce inventories and lead-times as well as improving
operational performance, customer service and agility.
Topic 2: Performance Measurements
SCM uses financial and non-financial measures, which should
be linked to the company's vision, mission statement,
and strategic plan, to assess strategic and operational
achievement.
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