Session 1: Understanding what Supply Chain and Logistics Management
- Definitions of logistics and Supply Chain management
- The interrelations and connections of Buying, Making, Moving, and Selling activities
- History and the development
- A view of the future.
Session 2: Key Aspects of Supply Chain Management
- The cost/service balance
- Customer service principles
- Lead times throughout the supply chain
- Adding value
- Production options/changes
- Trade off opportunities
Session 3: The Benefits of Adopting a Supply Chain Strategy
- Understanding the sub functional conflicts
- Benefits within and between functions taking a supply chain view of total acquisition costs
- Accepting that competitive advantage comes from the Supply Chain
Why a Supply Chain approach will change traditional ways
- Looking at demand amplifications, and the "Forester" effect,
- Appreciating the effects of uncertainty and unresponsiveness
- Seeing how we currently manage the supply chain
- Changing the way we manage the Supply Chain for effectiveness
Session 4: Impacts to the Supplier/Customer relationships
- Practical effects on lot sizes/order quantities
- Reducing costs
- Sharing developments
- Eliminating internal and external barriers
- Interfacing versus integrating relationships.
Session 5: Implementing a Logistics/Supply Chain Management Approach
- The changes needed with suppliers and customers.
- The changes need to internal organization and management practices
- Potential action needed
- The "doing nothing" future, with “lessons from experience”
- Guarding against futures of higher stock levels and competition gains
- Breaking down traditional silo/closed management
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