COURSE 1: |
Aligning The Manufacturing Enterprise To
Improve
The Effectiveness of Your Supply Chain Process |
Manufacturers, both fabricators and assemblers must support
the mission and vision of the Supply Chain to serve the
customers. They must execute the plan cost effectively, and
also provide continuing operational evaluation and improvement
to all the many type of processes as conditions and
adjustments require.
This class and the included course material is designed to
provide the Manufacturing Professional with the tools to
manage the migration from “arms length” operations to the
collaborative environment. Managing change to any process is
never easy. Successful migration must include an in-depth
assessment of your present performance, and an awareness of
the many barriers and problems and how they may be overcome
through the exploration of practical and pragmatic options.
Session Topics include:
- The Supply Chain Management plan
- Defining and evaluating the internal effort
- Defining and evaluating the upstream effort
- Defining and evaluating the downstream effort
- The S.C.M. plan- business and cultural issues
- The Internal Execution- business and cultural issues
- Customer Collaboration- business, operational,
technology issues
- Supplier Collaboration- management, operational,
technology barriers
Who will benefit from this course?
- Manufacturing, Plant and Operating Managers
- Front Line Supervisors
- Purchasing, Inventory and Materials Managers
- Financial Managers and Internal Auditors
- Key Executives responsible for quality, service and cost
- Supply Chain Project Team Members
- Suppliers and Customers working with the manufacturing
enterprise
Upon completion of this course, participants will be
able to:
- Identify and understand the structure and composition of
the enterprise Supply Chain Management Plan.
- Properly audit and evaluate present internal and
external Key performance indicators.
- Identify and distinguish between cultural,
technological, and procedural issues.
- Properly evaluate the “do nothing, do everything, do
something” options that are available as they relate to
internal enterprise efforts and those of the trading partner
community.
- Develop the tactics and strategy for dealing with
barrier situations.
- How to build reliability and value adding processes into
the changes and enhancements of operational efforts,
including those of all stakeholders, the associated metrics
and measurements, and the on-going improvement process.
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