SUPPLY CHAIN
A supply chain quickly grows into a complex system of components and processes that need to work together toward delivering the right value to your customers. However, these different elements are not always synchronized and are often competing against each other. Finding the right balance to align your supply chain operations with your business strategy will prove to be key to turning that supply chain into a competitive advantage instead of a mere cost center. Training yourself and your teams appropriately will help you to achieve that challenge.
If you want to become more familiar with any of the following topics, feel free to reach out to me:
>> Forecasting and Demand Planning
>> Inventory Management and Replenishment Strategies
>> Capacity and Requirements Planning
>> Distribution Planning
>> Supply Chain Strategy
>> Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
>> Finance in Supply Chain Management
>> …
Sample Outlines
Below you will find some sample outlines of different training programs on supply chain management. They serve to illustrate the possible approaches. Please get in touch to discuss the challenge your teams face so we can respond with the best training format according to knowledge gap, audience size, time investment, and budget.
Please remember that many of these training topics also come in the exciting format of experiential learning through business simulation games!
DEMAND PLANNING
|INTRODUCTION|
DELIVERY: Online live
LENGTH: 3 hours
OUTLINE:
– Welcome and Icebreaker Exercise
– Role and Importance of Forecasting
– Drivers of Demand: Break-out Session
– Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
– Decomposition and Cleaning of Historical Data
– Impact of Forecast Accuracy
– Setting Up the Process
– Closing Round-table Discussion
SALES & OPERATIONS PLANNING
|BASICS|
DELIVERY: Classroom (in-house)
LENGTH: 1 day
OUTLINE:
– Welcome and Icebreaker Exercise
– Supply Chain Triangle
– Basics
– Concepts in S&OP
– Planning Levels
– The S&OP Cycle
– Product Management Review
– Demand Review
– Inventory Review
– Supply and Capacity Review
– Executive S&OP
– Implementing S&OP
– Link with Strategy
– Customer/Product Segmentation
– Financial Metris
– Risks and Success Factors
– Challenges and Benefits
– Closing Round-table Discussion
INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AND OPTIMISATION
|ADVANCED|
DELIVERY: Classroom (in-house)
LENGTH: 1 day
OUTLINE:
– Welcome and Icebreaker Exercise
– Types of Inventory
– Cost of Inventory
– Financial View
– Supply Chain View
– Lot sizing Models
– Safety Stock Modeling
– Replenishment Strategies
– Inventory Targets
– Setting
– Monitoring
– Controlling
– Reporting
– Game: Inventory Bingo
– Inventory in Networks
– Closing round-table discussion
CIRCULARITY & SUSTAINABILITY
Circularity in all its aspects – material flows, business models, supporting economics and so forth – is a big domain to start exploring by yourself. Same goes for sustainability with its many frameworks, focal points and interpretations. It will however become more and more critical to your business to understand the playing field and start taking your first or next steps. Getting trained is the best preparation to do so.
If you want to become more familiar with any of the following topics, feel free to reach out to me:
>> Relationship between circular economy and sustainability
>> UN Sustainable Development Goals
>> Butterfly diagram and cradle-to-cradle principles
>> Managing and understanding the R-ladder
>> Product-Service Systems
>> Protocols, regulations, directives, and non-financial reporting: the landscape
>> …
Sample Outlines
Below you find some sample outlines of different training programs on circularity and sustainability. They illustrate the possible approaches. Please get in touch to discuss the challenge your teams face so we can respond with the best training format according to knowledge gap, audience size, time investment and budget.
Please remember that many of these training topics also come in the exciting format of experiental learning through business simulation games!
UN SDG’S
|INTRODUCTION|
DELIVERY: Online live
LENGTH: 3 hours
OUTLINE:
– Welcome and Icebreaker Exercise
– 17 SDG’s: Explained
– Avoiding the Trap of Cherry-Picking
– Effectively Put Them to Use
– Link with Other Frameworks
– Closing Round-table Discussion
CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND BUSINESS MODELS
|BASICS|
DELIVERY: Classroom (in-house)
LENGTH: 1 day
OUTLINE:
– Welcome and Icebreaker Exercise
– From Linear to Circular Economy
– Contribution To Sustainability
– Frameworks
– Cradle-to-cradle
– Butterfly Diagram
– Doughnut Economics
– R-ladder
– Product-Service Systems
– Challenges and Opportunities
– Exercise: Feedstocks
– Existing
– Build-Up
– Depleting
– Closing Round-table Discussion
SUSTAINABILITY IN SUPPLY CHAINS
|ADVANCED|
DELIVERY: Classroom (in-house)
LENGTH: 1 day
OUTLINE:
– Welcome and Icebreaker Exercise
– Definitions of Sustainability
– The Usual Suspects
– Transportation
– Waste and Water
– Energy
– Workforce Safety and Well-being
– Non-financial Reporting
– GHG Protocol
– Carbon Footprinting
– Triple Bottomline (3 P’s)
– Life Cycle Assessment
– Data, Data, Data
– From Reporting to Action
– Importance of Product Design
– Impact of Packaging
– Facilitating Circular Flows
– Closing Round-table Discussion
