This seminar is aimed at both suppliers and buyers who need an overview of the key drivers involved when viewing supply chains from a logistics/demand point of view. Supply Chains are the ultimate source of competitive advantage so the purpose of this seminar is to explain and appreciate what logistics and supply chain management are fundamentally about so that delegates are able to:
Understand what logistics and supply chain management are fundamentally about.
Appreciate that time is cash.
See that movement to the customer is all that adds value.
Work with all of the supply chain players pays.
Look 'outside of the box'.
Apply the 8 Rules for Effective Supply Chain Management.
Senior Buyers
Purchasing Supervisors
Purchasing Managers
Supply Chain Professionals
Definitions of logistics and Supply Chain management.
The interrelations and connections of Buying, Making, Moving, and Selling activities.
History and development.
Understanding Supply Chain dynamics.
Supply Chain Operations Reference Models (SCOR).
The Theory of Constraints (TOC).
The cost/service balance.
Customer service principles.
Internal organizational structures.
Inventory principles.
Lead times throughout the supply chain.
Adding value.
Production options/changes.
Trade-off opportunities.
Understanding the sub functional conflicts.
Benefits within and between functions.
Taking a supply-chain view of total acquisition costs.
Accepting that competitive advantage comes from the Supply Chain.
Looking at demand amplification, and the "Forester" effect.
Appreciating the effects of uncertainty and unresponsiveness.
Seeing how we currently manage the supply chain.
Changing the way we manage the Supply Chain for greater effectiveness.
Reducing costs.
Sharing developments and collaborating.
Eliminating internal and external barriers.
Interfacing versus integrating relationships.
Segmentation and product formatting.
Business strategies and the supply chain.
Supply chain planning.
Gaining a competitive advantage.
Considering outsourcing.
Using postponement and consolidation logistics.
Examining demand planning.
Approaches of Quick Response (QR), Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), and.
Collaborative Planning and Forecast Requirements (CPFR).
The Lean Supply Chain.
Manufacturing and retailer case studies.
The major lessons and key aspects of the experience.
Oil and Gas in the UK experiences.
Key questions to be answered.
The changes needed with suppliers and customers.
The changes need to internal organization and management practices.
Potential action needed.
The 'doing nothing' future, with 'lessons from experience'.
Guarding against futures of higher stock levels and competition gains.
Breaking down traditional silo/closed management.
A 5 step approach to Logistics and Supplier Development.
The Supply Chain Rules (Encore); the rules to give competitive advantage from effective Supply Chain Management.
The program opens by exploring the key leadership skills and how to apply them in the organization. Using this initial analysis, the program explores managing yourself as a leader, leading a team, creating breakthroughs through innovative leadership, communicating effectively with others, and imparting leadership values to your team members. All attendees will return to their organizations better equipped to meet the challenges and demands of leadership.
This is a fast-paced, dynamic, and highly informative advanced leadership program. It seeks to develop and enhance your personal, team, and organizational leadership skills.
This seminar is designed to provide practicing or potential leaders with the knowledge and skills required by the role. This leadership programme enables your leaders to critically explore the key idea that the most important function of a leader is to help their people move through the stages of team development.
Alliances in business are a natural route for development – but not all contracting relationships can truly be seen as alliances. A good, trusting and open relationship is essential for a long-term and successful alliance – and this needs to be practiced by the negotiators involved. Negotiation is inevitably at the heart of every process to achieve what you want, whether in an agreement, bargaining for an item, or closing a deal. At the end of each negotiation, the goal is to seek a win/win outcome – an essential characteristic of long-lasting alliances. This course provides an essential framework for effective negotiation — which will be vital for building and exploiting an alliance - from building the relationship, critical thinking to prioritize goals
Health, Safety, and Environmental Management Systems are based on a proactive process for incidents prevention as well as reactive monitoring of performance. Risk assessment is required to be applied to all activities that impact on health & safety, production, asset, environment, and the Company reputation.
All businesses in the current environment need a competitive edge. This can be gained through innovative and exciting products and services, or effective and efficient world-class employees. Top performing organizations are passionate about their most valuable resource - their staff. To maintain their high standards a large proportion of their time and energy is spent on continuous professional development, not only of their employees but of their business. This course investigates the tried and trusted management processes, procedures, and methodology used by many blue-chip companies. They use the tools to develop high levels of performance from their staff. This in turn ensures the future and reputation of their companies through innovative development, service, and evaluation. This course offers participants practical solutions to work-related issues.
Enterprise Risk Management known as (ERM) has evolved considerably since the seventies. From simply 'buying' insurance, it has now grown in importance to become a prime function in many organizations as part of a bigger system known as Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) which starts with corporate governance and ends with compliance. ERM is the function of studying the risks that may hinder a corporation's ability to achieve its goals and then deciding how to overcome those risks. Studies regarding risk management were done by different organizations, including ISO which issued ISO 31000 on risk management. However, the most accepted ERM system is the one designed by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). This system, which is the one covered in this course, teaches the steps needed to control risk. It starts with the evaluation of the internal environment and the setting of objectives which are, mainly, a result of the tone at the top of the organization, the directives from corporate governance as well as the vision, mission, and corporate strategies. Then, the course goes through the steps management needs to consider in order to identify and assess risk and decide on proper risk responses and controls. The course ends with how to monitor, communicate, and report risk. In addition, the course looks at risk in different organizational areas such as strategy, reporting, compliance, operations, financial and physical risk as well as risk in different industries.