Supply Chain Management

Introduction

The challenges of mastering Supply Chain Management are considerable. Supply Chain Management requires a shift away from traditional functional models towards managing an integrated set of business processes. A company must implement these processes based on a vision of the entire supply chain. This vision derives from knowledge and understanding of corporate strategy, performance goals, market competition and customer needs. Developing integrated supply chain processes enables companies to respond quickly to changes – become more agile. What supports such processes are flexible organisational structures and information systems. While there is no ideal supply chain, there are certain central concepts and approaches to successful supply chain management. Firstly. lets be clear about what we mean by Supply Chain Management (SCM)?.

Supply Chain Synchronisation

Today, SCM is regarded as a continuous process from the total market demand for products to customer payment. It encompasses all of the information, financial and physical flows from the supplier’s supplier to the customer’s customer including returns and repairs.

Capability

Business Transformation (Training and Coaching) works with a small number of highly experienced associates who are both Supply Change Management practitioners and trainers, principal amongst these is Aurora Business Development based in Ireland and Bristol, for further details of their specific programmes please visit there website. In many cases they are considered subject matter experts and have an in-depth knowledge of SCM best practice. Training programmes can be designed to meet client requirements as well as being industry specific. The following list of training subjects illustrates the potential scope of Supply Chain Management and the range of our capability:

Supply Chain Strategy

• Developing and implementing a Supply Chain Strategy
• Supply Chain and Business Process Outsourcing
• Establishing offshore manufacturing facilities
• Supply Chain Optimisation
• Optimising the Supply Chain for Agility

Supply Chain Planning

• Demand planning.
• Collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR).
• Manufacturing planning (MRP and MPS).
• Sales planning and channel management.
• Product lifecycle planning and management.
• Field service planning and management.
• Transport planning and management.

Supply Chain Operations

• Inventory and warehouse management
• Purchasing
• Field Service
• Just in time (JIT)
• Import and export operations, controls and management

Supply Chain Improvement

• Six Sigma (programme already established)
• Change Management (programme already established)
• Kaizen continuous improvement process

These subjects can be delivered at an introductory or advanced levels. The latter may combine a number of aspects (e.g. strategic, planning, operations). Training programmes can also be action learning based by combining training and workshop activity focused on a client’s specific projects and issues.

Please contact Business Transformation (Training and Coaching) to discuss your particular Supply Chain Management training and development requirements.

Coaching

We are sure that delegates will leave in-house training courses full of enthusiasm to apply their newfound knowledge. Unfortunately, reality often imposes itself and their good intentions flounder. We can also develop, with the client, a coaching programme to help their staff effectively apply SCM principles and concepts to their organisation. The coaching can be at an individual level or for a team working on changing and improving their supply chain performance. Coaching can also be independent of a training course – helping a client improve the performance of key individuals.

Who should attend?

Supply Chain Management training can be designed to meet the needs of all levels of the organisation, executive to the shop floor, and for those directly and indirectly (e.g. sales) involved in the organisation's supply chain.