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Supply Chain Essentials (Managing Effective Supply Chains: Essentials of Supply Chain Management) 3-Day Course
Course Description
This course covers topics for building maximum efficiency of managing effective supply chains through better reporting and measurement systems. "Essentials of Supply Chain Management" delivers the essential competencies required for expert management of materials, products, processes and information on a regional or global scale.Who Should Take the Course
This program is for managers who are new to supply chain processes and searching for best practices in their area of responsibility. Those who work as functional counterparts in finance, information systems, manufacturing or marketing will also benefit.What the Student Will Learn
Upon completion of "Essentials of Supply Chain Management," the student will be qualified to: integrate all functions along the chain through shared objectives; develop common performance matrices; improve customer satisfaction through shorter delivery times, maximizing capital turnover; use information technology to enhance performance; and, work effectively in alliances and partnerships of the extended supply chain.Included Materials
A three-ring Participant Notebook is provided. The Notebook contains all of the relevant course and study materials.Douglas J. Thomas
Doug Thomas is Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management in the Smeal College of Business Administration at Penn State and a research associate with the Center for Supply Chain Research. Dr. Thomas currently teaches courses in Supply Chain Management and Quantitative Modeling in undergraduate and MBA programs. He has received the MBA Excellence in Teaching award and is a frequent faculty leader in executive development programs.
Dr. Thomas's current research interests include coordinating production and inventory planning across the extended enterprise and connecting decision models to logistics performance measurement. He was one of the primary researchers and contributing authors to the recently published book, "eBusiness and Supply Chain Processes," focusing on the effect of information technology on the measurement of logistics performance. His work has appeared in several academic and practitioner journals in the areas of logistics and operations management, including Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Transportation Journal, European Journal of Operational Research, Operations Research Letters, Supply Chain Practice, and Achieving Supply Chain Excellence through Technology. He serves on the editorial board of the Production Operations Management Journal.
Course Outline
Global Supply Chain Management- Defining the Supply Chain
- Scope of Logistics Activities
- Systems Perspective of the Supply Chain
- Market Demands and Corporate Expectations
- Link Between Business Strategy and Logistics
- Motivational and Leadership Technologies
- Value Chain Analysis
- Competing on Speed, Flexibility, Responsiveness, Quality, and Value-Added Services
- Competing Through Alliances
- Strategic Alliances and Partnerships
- Characteristics of Partnerships
- Current Research and "Best Practices"
- Shared Use of Technologies
- Factors Leading to Partnership Satisfaction
- The Role of Information Technology (IT) in the Supply Chain
- Innovative Technologies and Their Uses
- IT and Supply Chain Integration
- Inventory Management Throughout the Chain
- Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
- Manufacturing/Distribution Resource Planning
- Relationship Between Logistics and Customer Satisfaction
- Methodologies for Measuring Effectiveness
- Integrated Logistics Simulation