Supply Chain Management Training

This course by pd training provides you with comprehensive skills like logistics, analytics, planning, supplying and manufacturing. To better compete in a global economy, you must consider that supply chain is one of the keys to your success. After the training, you will be confident and well-equipped to undertake negotiations, deal with suppliers and attain the profitable results to benefit your organization.

If you are involved in a supply chain role, or part of a strategic projects team, this Supply Chain Management training course will help you get the best from your supplier management processes.

This hands-on practical training course is available now throughout Malaysia, including Kuala Lumpur.

This Supply Chain Management training course can be delivered at your premises by one of our expert local or international trainers or live online using our Hive technology.

Your Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify how supply chain management relates to:
• Customer satisfaction
• Improving performance
• Lowering costs
• Product development
• Define the terms:
• Procurement
• Upstream and downstream
• Raw material
• Forecasting
• Carrying cost
• Inventory
• Order generation
• Order taking
• Order fulfillment
• Returns management
• Understand the levels of supply chain management and their effects
• Strategic
• Tactical
• Operational
• Comprehend the flows of supply chain management and data warehouses
• Product flow
• Information flow
• Finances flow
• Take a look at inventory management
• Study supply chain groups
• Review tracking and monitoring methods
• Examine supply chain event management

Rapid global expansion, rising fuel costs, environmental concerns and interconnected businesses can all have a tremendous impact on corporate strategies and costs. Organizations can no longer ignore what happens outside their own four walls, making supply chain management a critical and in demand field.

This course from PD Training helps meet this demand. You'll gain a better understanding of the finances, logistics and delivery of products and services and how it leads to increased efficiencies and competitiveness, while maximizing customer value and satisfaction.

Course Outline for Supply Chain Management

Topic 1

• Getting Started
• Workshop Objectives
• Action Plans & Evaluation Forms

Topic 2

• Why Supply Chain Management?
• Customer Satisfaction
• Improving Performance
• Lowering Costs
• Product Development
• Case Study

Topic 3

• Key Terms I
• Procurement
• Upstream & Downstream
• Raw Material
• Forecasting
• Carrying Cost
• Case Study

Topic 4

• Key Terms II
• Inventory
• Order Generation
• Order Taking
• Order Fulfillment
• Returns Management
• Case Study

Topic 5

• Three Levels of Supply Chain Management
• Strategic Level
• Tactical Level
• Operational Level
• Bullwhip Effect
• Case Study

Topic 6

• Five Stages of Supply Chain Management
• Plan
• Source
• Make
• Deliver
• Return
• Case Study

Topic 7

• The Flows of Supply Chain Management
• The Product Flow
• The Information Flow
• The Finances Flow
• Data Warehouses
• Case Study

Topic 8

• Inventory Management
• Levels of Inventory
• Just-In-Time Inventory
• Keeping Accurate Records
• Inventory Calculator
• Case Study

Topic 9

• Supply Chain Groups
• The Suppliers
• The Producers
• The Customers
• The Customer's Customers
• Case Study

Topic 10

• Tracking and Monitoring
• Dashboard
• RFID's
• Alert Generation
• Stock Keeping Unit (SKU)
• Case Study

Topic 11

• Supply Chain Event Management
• Inventory Alerts
• Supplier Alerts
• Bottlenecking
• Being Proactive
• Case Study

Topic 12

• Wrapping Up
• Words from the Wise
• Lessons Learned