Key details
Mode of delivery: Online Course
Course code: SCM15AO
Duration: 5 days
Fee: £3,668.00 + VAT
CPD Hours: 30
Course Overview
This intensive week focuses on the strategic and operational aspects of advanced supply chain management. Participants will learn to build resilient, efficient, and responsive supply chains, leveraging data, technology, and strategic planning. The programme covers foundational concepts, risk management, demand forecasting, continuous improvement, and future-proofing strategies.
Agenda
Day – 1 Foundations of Strategic Supply Chain Management
- Understanding Supply and Value Chains
- Supply Chain Strategy: Process and Data Flow
- Supply Chain Resilience and Efficiency
Day – 2 Building Supply Chain Resilience
- Analysing Supply Base and Achieving Stability
- Achieving Future State Resilience:
- Supply Chain Risk Management:
Day – 3 Enhancing Supply Chain Responsiveness
- Demand Forecasting Techniques
- Leveraging Technology for Responsiveness
- Just-in-Time Inventory Management
Day – 4 Improving Supply Chain Flow and Efficiency
- Key Supply Chain Diagnostic Tools
- Lean and Agile Supply Chain Structures
- Continuous Improvement Techniques
Day – 5 Course Review
- Summary and recap of key learning objectives
- Action Planning
Post-Course
- Three (3) x hour-long Executive Coaching sessions at monthly intervals following Course Completion
Target Audience
This course is suitable for:
- Supply chain managers and professionals
- Logistics and operations managers
- Procurement specialists
- Business analysts focused on supply chain optimisation.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, you will be able to implement a successful strategy that enables you to:
- Define and differentiate between supply and value chains and explain their impact on organisational strategy.
- Develop a framework for establishing effective process and data flows within a supply chain.
- Explain the relationship between supply chain resilience and efficiency, and identify the roles of MRP and ERP systems.
- Analyse a supply base to determine its capacity, capability, and reconfigurability.
- Develop strategies to achieve both current-state stability and future-state resilience.
- Identify and assess supply chain risks, and formulate effective mitigation plans.
- Apply appropriate demand forecasting techniques to improve supply chain planning.
- Evaluate and utilise technology solutions to enhance supply chain responsiveness.
- Assess and implement Just-in-Time (JIT) inventory management strategies.
- Utilise key diagnostic tools to assess and improve supply chain performance.
- Apply Lean and Agile principles to optimise supply chain structures and processes.
- Implement continuous improvement techniques, such as Kaizen, to enhance efficiency.
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