Supply Chain Excellence: Creating an Agile, Flexible and Effective Supply Chain in Today's Uncertain World

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    As Chair (Full Professor) in Supply Chain Strategy at the Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Cranfield School of Management U.K.  Richard works with European and International companies on logistics and supply chain projects in all sectors including pharmaceutical, retail, automotive, high te...

     

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    Course Overview

    In today's increasingly volatile competitive environment, winning Companies are those that are more responsive to their customers' needs than their competitors - faster rates of innovation, bringing new products and services to the marketplace more quickly, and operating with shorter lead times and greater reliability. Effective Supply Chain Management is recognised as having a significant impact on an organisations financial performance and the shareholder value of the business.

    This 3-day advanced workshop will examine the latest thinking in supply chain management and the development of responsive supply chain strategies and how relevant concepts and tools can be applied within the organisational environment.

    This stand-alone course introduces delegates to the critical concepts to be considered in developing an effective supply chain strategy and explores key tools for analysing and mapping supply chain processes through providing attendees with techniques to create more resilient supply chain structures. 

    As relationships across supply chains are becoming increasingly important to enable resilient and sustainable supply chains, the workshop aims to enable attendees to identify critical relationships across a supply chain network and highlight the drivers for intelligent collaboration in organisations today.

    A popular definition for Supply Chain Management is "the management of upstream and downstream relationships with suppliers, distributors and customers to achieve greater customer value-added at less total cost." The key emphasis is the management of relationships within the network.

    This advanced workshop focuses on

    • Techniques for the creation of collaborative environments. The environment is the context within which the organization operates.
    • The importance of understanding the stakeholders who are part of the network and also the appropriate type of relationship required.
    • Simple ways of developing the network, both issues that promote network creation and also those things that can destroy a network.
    • Tools that can be used to help plan the development of the network will be discussed and presented.

    This advanced workshop follows the structure of an interactive lecture interspersed with short breakout sessions. The workshop is interactive throughout where attendees are encouraged to brain storm issues relevant to their environment.

    Workshop Level

    Mid to senior level managers, directors and VP's within any sector, involved in supply chain, logistics, manufacturing and/or operational excellence and continuous improvement.

    What will I be able to do after participating?
    • Indentify a simple framework for developing the network and promoting network creation
    • Develop techniques to successfully plan collaborative projects
    • Analyse how to successfully ensure certainty of effective collaborations
    • Create awareness of the lean and agile Supply Chain concept and its objectives & benefits
    • Play an active role in delivering responsive supply chain strategies and how relevant concepts and tools can be applied within the organisational environment
    • Understand the value of investing in the capability to deal with risk/vulnerability and how this will impact on the success factors for the market or segment