High-Impact Supply Chain for Managers

Fee: Based on size and duration of class.
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Who Should Attend? Key managers from every department, the software implementation team, union officers and Core Team.

This interactive session gives key managers and leaders a detailed understanding of the new tools and techniques to make major changes in the business and establish your company as an effective link in a competitive supply chain. Managers from all departments come together and reach a common vision.

Managers Learn To:
Grow the business profitably
Position your company as an effective enterprise in your competing supply chain
Raise and meet customer expectations faster than your competitors
Integrate multiple functional plans to support business objective
Eliminate unnecessary costly, time-consuming tasks
Operate without accurate sales forecasts by managing demand and flexing supply
Double inventory turns and reduce inventory carrying costs
Eliminate work-in-process and cut throughput times in half
Cut costs by 30% or more
Increase flexibility
Deliver custom products quickly
Slash delivery lead times
Effectively use new software

Major Topics Covered:
Overcoming the "silo effect"
New paradigms for business
Using MAP as the route to successful new product launches
Shortening time-to-market
Managing the supply/demand process
Proven 5-Step SOP process
The Manager's role in SOP
Demand management up and down the supply chain
Closed-loop planning and master scheduling
Planning bills and configurators
Managing distribution inventory and logistics costs
Cycle reconciling for inventory record accuracy
Critical bill of material issues
Coupling planning systems with lean manufacturing
Cycle time reduction
Empowerment and thinking workers
Five steps to managing capacity
Pull systems
Reducing order quantities and lot sizes
Revolutionary supplier partnerships
The right supply chain metrics
Organizing and motivating the Core Team
ATP: Making customer delivery promises
Moving to a new comfort zone
Getting started with a guaranteed 90-day action plan!  

High-Impact Supply Chain for Executives

Sales & Operations Planning (SOP)

Bills of Material

Market-Aimed Products (MAP)