Workshop on Strategic Supply Chain / Logistics Management

Program overview:

A successful supply chain and logistics strategy aligns with the organization’s business goals, ensures efficiency, optimizes logistics, improves quality, and delivers value to the customer.

The critical steps are to create a set of KPIs, set measurable goals, and getting buy-in from management. 

This program is designed to help participants gain insights on how to manage supply chain and logistics to effectively impacts the organization’s competitiveness in cost, and speed to market.

For whom:

Purchasing Officers, Project Engineers / Officers, Operation Executives/ Officers, Quality Control Officers and Storekeepers/ Officers, Store managers, Logistics managers, Inventory managers, Admin. Managers and officers and managers involved in supply chain and logistics management in both private and public-sector organizations of the economy

Learning objectives:

At the end of the program, participants will be to:

• develop an end-to-end process of supply chain and logistics architecture;
• build a collaborative model for successful supply chain and logistics management;
• gain new insights into how the application of supply chain process transform the competitive edge of the business;
• align supply chain execution and the business’s unique value proposition;
• define the interrelation between supply chain activities that determine how the product are sourced, manufactured, and delivered;
• identify the value proposition that enables the organization to incorporate key drivers into its supply chain to fulfil its customers’ unique value proposition; and
• use metrics to drive business success.

Course outline:

Day 1: Understanding Key Supply Chain Management Processes   

• Customer relationship management b.
  • Customer service management
  • Demand management
  • Supplier relationship management
  • Returns management
• Forecasting and aggregate planning in supply chain.
• Identifying organizational materials needs and requirement
• Ensuring needs matching sourcing c. Strategic Sourcing,

Day 2: Procurement and Negotiation Management in SCM                                                                                                  

• Market and Economic Analysis b.
  • Procurement: Pricing, Tendering/Bidding

 and Contracting

• Strategic Inventory Management
  • Effective Store keeping and Store

Management  

• Ordering Procedures and Stock

Level Management

• Inventory Planning and Control System
• Issuing Processes and Stock
• Record Management

Day 3: Distribution /Logistics Management

• Planning distribution and documentation
• Warehousing versus distribution centre    
• Transportation administration and

Route management

• Product handling and safety measures

Day 4: Outsourcing/Partnerships Management                                                                                 

• Procurement outsourcing
• Service management
• Vendor-managed inventory
• Negotiation in supply chain management

Day 5: Performance Measurement in Supply Chain                                                  

• Supply chain value analysis b. The importance of metrics
• (Supply chain performance measures) including chain-wide metrics
• Understanding major challenges to effective supply chain management
  • Variability
  • Organization silos
  • The Bullwhip Effect,
  • Trade – offs

Training Methodology

Lectures, discussions, exercises, case studies, audio-visual aids will be used to reinforce these teaching/learning methods.