The Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management for Stronger Foundations
In this intensive course, practitioners extend their supply chain management knowledge and skills through interactive exercises, and the use of rigorous case studies to gain insights into the latest best practices.
- Developing a supply chain strategy that meets the business objective
- Evolving supply chain strategy with Product Life Cycle (PLC) dynamics
- Understanding concepts of Strategic Sourcing
- Demystifying forecasting fundamentals
- Learning basics of demand management and demand/supply balancing
- Learning principles of Production Planning and Scheduling
- Understanding issues in distribution, warehousing and transportation management
This workshop provides a robust overview of supply chain fundamentals designed to raise the knowledge of a cross-functional team and provide an updated overview to practitioners.
Advanced Planning & Scheduling to Achieve Corporate and Customer Objectives
Practitioners learn both the art and science of blending demand, supply, production and distribution planning into a single supply chain plan that makes best use of the corporate resources and satisfies the customer.
- Understanding the process of Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)
- Applying capacity planning for understanding supply constraints
- Collaborating with supply chain partners to reduce variability
- Measuring planning effectiveness
- Making the most of your ERP/APS systems
This workshop provides a cross-functional team insight to importance of advanced planning and scheduling while inspiring supply chain professionals to elevate these critical activities in their organization for measurable returns.
Measure and Advance Supply Chain Maturity
Managers and executives learn the importance of measuring and monitoring supply chain maturity. Uncover the necessary steps to plot a growth plan that avoids the pitfalls and closes the gap on performance quickly and safely to maximize internal results and customer experience. Individual results from eKNOWtion's Maturity Monitor will be provided to participants as a first step toward advancement.
- Understanding the five stages of maturity including Next Generation
- Plotting your company's maturity using eKNOWtion's Supply Chain Maturity Monitor (SCM²)
- Understanding key initiatives by stage to advance maturity and close the gap
- Developing your maturity transition plan
- Examining Supply Chain transformation project management issues
This workshop reveals current state maturity and provides vision for logical supply chain progression. Ideally individuals will attend the workshop as a cross-functional team or with partners to accelerate advancement.
Supply Chain Diet (Lean and Six Sigma Beyond the Manufacturing Floor)
Step on the scales and put your company on a diet to reduce the fat and get in top shape in order to beat the competition in the race for leadership and market share.
- Embracing Lean
- Integrating Six Sigma (6σ)
- Extending lean to non production functions
- Weighing in - where is the value versus waste in your supply chain processes
- Setting target weight - what are optimal processes, inventory and services
- Preparing for Lean Plan / Source / Make / Deliver / Return
- Setting the scale for 6σ
Workshop participants at all levels in an organization will enjoy this insightful workshop which extends lean beyond manufacturing and exerts the same principles into all the areas of the supply chain to ensure a synchronized and sustainable level of success. The workshop also provides value to lean enthusiasts who are supporting their customers and suppliers in their lean initiatives.
Connecting Supply Chain Process & Metrics to Improved Performance
Extending the scope and depth of process documentation and discipline provides a foundation to measure and improve performance. Adding constructive metrics and including supply chain partners will reduce variation leading to stronger chains and positive results.
- Identify primary and secondary processes to deliver supply chain value
- Assembling process documentation and communication
- Introducing process discipline
- Employing metrics as indicators
- Understanding Process iteration for performance
- Extending process, metrics and performance to customers and suppliers
This workshop provides powerful insights on the untapped potential that exists within supply chain processes, emphasizing the importance of the right metrics visibility and a commitment to peak performance.
Managing Successful Supply Chain Projects
Overcome inherent project risk by making your initiative "project perfect" using a structured and measurable approach. Realize faster supply chain advances be leveraging decades of experience packaged for your consumption in this workshop.
- Aligning with business and supply chain strategy
- Selecting and planning a project
- Understanding project knowledge areas
- Identifying project risk
- Defining staff, roles and responsibilities
- Managing / Communication for project success
- Inspiring team and partners
- Rewarding team and partners
Project managers and participants take away practical lessons that can be applied to supply chain transformation while balancing project scope, cost and time to plan.
Supply Chain Design (& Re-Design) for Dynamic Markets
There is ample research confirming that 80% of supply chain costs are dictated by their network design. A deeper understanding of the implication of where supply nodes are located, the functions performed and the associated levels or inventory and transportation modes is critical to support the changing demands.
- Understanding network design
- Learning how to make quantified tradeoff decisions between cost : service level
- Identifying drivers for re-design
- Proposing network strategy initiatives
- Learning principles of optimized outsourcing
- Developing successful outsourcing roadmaps
This course will leave the attendees with a clear understanding of supply chain network design and optimization as a powerful strategy and insights on evaluating readiness, feasibility and appropriate tools and techniques for their extended enterprise.
Replacing Suppliers & Customers with "Partners" to Win
This course cracks the code on an overused word and underutilized opportunity to achieve supply chain success - Collaboration. This course is exponentially more powerful when taken with customers and suppliers - make a supply chain event and commitment.
- Starting with the Partner in the mirror
- Segmenting suppliers and customers
- Changing expectations / behavior / results
- Understanding extended quarterly business reviews
- Applying available collaborative tools
Workshop participants learn how to think beyond traditional roles and motivate customers and suppliers to follow the example into profitable partnerships.
Knowledge Management Across the Supply Chain for Competitive Advantage
The intellectual assets within organizations can fuel development and market advantages. As supply chains extend globally, knowledge transfer becomes more critical and more complex simultaneously.
- Creating value chains that create and respect knowledge as an asset
- Segmenting explicit and tacit knowledge for optimal preservation and reuse
- Applying knowledge codification principles with supplier and customers
- Establishing Knowledge Maps / Directories across the chain
- Competing with knowledge
This workshop delivers practical guidance to unleash the power of knowledge between supply chain partners, leveraging assets for increased value to all parties.
Achieving Operations Excellence with SCOR
This exciting new offering from eKNOWtion's KNOWledge Academy is a specially designed 3-day interactive course which is comprised of six modules. By incorporating our SCOR Basics and SCOR Application courses and other key elements from various workshops our "Achieving Operations Excellence with
SCOR" course delivers participants an understanding of how to best apply SCOR as an enabler for successful supply chain transformation - even for those who are not supply chain specialists.
This course is also designed to be customized around a client's needs and can easily integrate client-specific concepts, previous project examples and client-specific mapping standards. This 3-day course is offered globally.
Efficient and Profitable Paths to Meeting New Environmental Requirements
This workshop delivered through alliance with Technology Forecasters Inc. (TFI), is primarily for OEM company managers working in operations, supply-chain, EHS and design (although it is often attended by CEOs as well as marketing and finance executives). Participants learn the latest methods for meeting WEEE, RoHS and other environmental requirements while at the same time reducing the cost of goods sold and increasing revenues.
This full-day workshop is held at the client site and is customized to reflect the client's immediate concerns and opportunities. Among the areas featured are:
- Insights into what other electronic-equipment companies are doing to meet environmental requirements.
- Mistakes other companies have made and how to avoid these pitfalls.
- Techniques for recycling and substance reduction (both in-house and outsourced).
- Ways to track, monitor, report and test for compliance to RoHS.
- Ways to work with contract manufacturers to best meet the regulations.
- Organizing the business for efficient compliance.
- Ways to reduce COGS when complying with regulations.
- Using the regulations to enhance financial and competitive value.
- Up to date information on the up-coming European Union initiatives (EuP).
- Objective feedback on each Company's current compliance status.
Over the past 3 years, this workshop has been delivered to approximately 150 participants.
Kazien Convergence Workshop
This applied learning workshop will demonstrate the natural and complementary coexistence of Lean, Six Sigma, Green and SCOR. Teaching fundamentals of these powerful methodologies is the first step to unveiling the exponential impact when they are combined in company specific formulas to tackle operational performance in our supply chains. The workshop is structured to allow you to apply this knowledge to an improvement opportunity from your supply chain. This is the optimal way to learn and gives you a head start in realizing the value on your return to the office.
The spirit of a Kaizen shapes this action oriented day, fueling a "can do" attitude and exposing tools and techniques that can be applied to any supply chain for better results including:
all leading to more cost competitive products.
This workshop is a primer on the featured methodologies - relevant to companies that have made a commitment or may be making a commitment in the near future. Additionally, executives in search of a methodology and coaching skills to lead their teams through improvement activities have an ideal opportunity to sample this approach