Course Details

Your Growth, Our Mission

Materials Planning and Forecasting
Course Description

This course is designed for personal working in, alongside, or offering non-logistics support to materials management.

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include;

  • Lectures
  • Workshop & Work Presentation
  • Case Studies and Practical Exercise
  • Videos and General Discussions

Session 1: Materials Management as Part of Business Strategy

  • Overview of business planning process
  • Business forecasting
  • Sales and operations planning
  • Demand management
  • Overview of demand forecasting

Session 2: Supplier Management

  • Benefits of partnerships
  • Limitations to supplier development
  • Purchasing in a JIT environment

Session 3: Materials Planning System

  • Master production scheduling
  • Bill of materials
  • Lead times
  • Rough cut capacity planning
  • Materials requirements planning
  • Capacity requirements planning

Session 4: Improving Supply Chain Flows

  • Visibility in the supply chain
  • Reducing manufacturing inventories
  • “Lean” manufacturing systems
  • Financial systems to support “lean” manufacturing
  • JIT

Session 5: Costumer Linking

  • Visibility of costumer data
  • Vendor managed replenishment
  • Costumer managed replenishment

Session 6: improving Competitiveness

  • Time compression
  • Mass customization
  • Organizational requirements for improving materials
  • Management Performance

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.

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Course Rounds

5 Days
Code Date Venue Fees Action
PRO132-01
2026-05-03
Doha
USD 5450
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PRO132-02
2026-08-02
Dubai
USD 5450
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PRO132-03
2026-10-04
Cairo
USD 5450
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PRO132-04
2026-12-06
Dubai
USD 5450
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