The Supply Chain

Using Supply Chain Management for organisational benefit

• Supply Chain Definitions
• The 8 Supply Chain Rules
• Customers and demand
• Competitive advantage
• Strategy definitions
• Supply Chain Models
• Supply chain performance measures

The Global Supply Chain

• Risks and benefits
• Regional and cultural differences
• Using the appropriate Incoterms

Inventory Strategy and Procurement Strategy

Inventory management

• Managing inventory in the supply chain
• Forrester effects
• Dealing with supply and demand variability
• Inventory strategy outline

Procurement in the supply chain

• Role of procurement
• total cost approaches
• Category management
• Balancing risk and spend
• Procurement strategy outline

Supply Chain Strategy

Alternative supply chain and logistics approaches

• Cross docking
• Vendor management inventory
• JIT
• Lean supply chains
• Agile supply chains

Understanding the strategic fit

• Decision phases
• Process view
• Supply chain strategy:
• Competitive strategy
• Supply chain design
• Achieving the strategic fit

Rethinking the supply chain

• Supply chain futures
• Reengineering supply chains
• Organisation development
• Models for change