Supply Chain Strategy & Organisation

·Major Topics Covered in this Diploma Program include:

·Forecasting supply chain requirements, methods and techniques of forecasting.

·Problems and uncertainties of predicting supply needs, collaborative forecasting.

·Ensuring flexibility and quick response in supply chain management.

·Variations in demand, controlling lead times, dealing with prices and costs.

·Monitoring, noting and assessing trends.

·Inventory control and policy decisions, deciding upon inventory location points.

·Managing the flows of goods and services.

·Inventory appraisal and monitoring, categories and types of inventory.

·The objectives of holding inventory, pull and push inventory systems.

·Materials Resource Planning (MRP).

·Pipeline inventories, aggregate control of inventories, supply-driven inventory control, virtual inventories.

·Purchasing and supply scheduling, the decisions involved, storage and handling systems, costs.

·Mathematical models relating to purchasing, supply and scheduling.

·Facility and site selection - the factors involved.

·Planning, design and operational needs of sites and warehouses.

·Materials handling systems, planning and designing them.

·Location strategy and decisions, single and multiple facilities location.

·Factories, dynamic warehouse location, design and control of channels.

·Network planning and product flows: data sources and checklists.

·Logistics research, tools for analysis in network planning.

·Facility costs and their capacity; the configuration of networks.

·Benchmarking and quality, monitoring efficiency.

·Supply chain organisation and control: the differing choices.

·Orientation and positioning of the supply chain.

·Inter-functional and inter-organisational management, and integrated planning.

·The control process; managing, developing and understanding the control framework.

·Data measurement and analysis relating to the supply chain.