Lean Supply Chain Master Class

Managers are becoming increasingly conscious that their clients are demanding products in lower volumes. This trend towards smaller orders, coupled with the continuing pressures on prices generated by intensifying competition, is stimulating a growing need for companies to reduce their supply chain costs. The implementation of lean thinking within the supply chain will address this requirement, equipping your organisation to succeed in the hard times and leaving it super fit to capitalise on the coming economic upturn.

Lean thinking may typically be applied to manufacturing but the concept is relevant wherever there are process efficiencies to be made - throughout the entire supply chain. A lean supply chain is one that produces precisely what and how much product is needed and when it is needed, sending it where it is needed.

The Lean Supply Chain Master Class examines the supply chain time line from the moment the customer gives an order to the point when the company receives payment, looking at minimising that time line by removing the non-value added wastes.

Who should participate?
The Lean Supply Chain Planning Master Class is aimed at managers with a tactical or strategic influence on the operation of their companies' supply chains. It would also be ideal for a company working party tasked with enhancing their organisation's competitive advantage by improving their supply chain.

What will they learn?
Full details of the outcomes that candidates can expect to derive from the course are provided overleaf.

How will they learn?
During the Lean Supply Chain Planning Master Class, the participants take on the role of newly appointed supply chain managers in a fictitious company. Their allocated specialist tutor takes on the role of their line manager, and sets the learners a challenging project to improve the efficiency of the supply chain. Learners explain how they would achieve the required improvements within the simulated environment and complete this project in a series of reports, periodically submitted to their 'manager' (the tutor), who is on hand should the learner require guidance. As the participants develop the confidence and competence to make changes and improvements in the simulation, they will develop a similar ability in the real world as they integrate the learning into the real life workplace

Fee Scale
The Supply Chain Planning Master Class is available as a 2-day face-to-face event, by distance learning or by a blend of the two.

•  Face to face event (Up to 12 participants) £2700.00

•  Distance Learning: (per participant) £ 500.00

•  Blended Learning , variable fee Please call for a quotation

For an additional fee, face to face courses can be tailored to reflect a particular company's operation and/or current issues.

Outcomes

This master class looks at four critical areas:

• Understanding the supply chain
• Process Mapping
• Analysing the current supply chain, wastes and constraints
• Determining the lean supply chain ' to be'

Understanding the Supply Chain

On the successful completion of this Master Class, participants will be able to understand and/or apply:

• Value as the driver of the supply chain
• Sales and Operations planning process
• Business Strategy - the need to co-ordinate business and supply chain strategy with supporting elements

Process Mapping

On the successful completion of this Master Class, participants will be able to understand and apply:

• Decoupling point theory
• Thread diagrams and response time
• Value stream mapping

Analyse Supply Chain

On the successful completion of this Master Class, participants will be able to understand and apply:

• Cost to serve - life cycle implications
• Identification of waste in the supply chain
• Identifying the constraints and bottlenecks
• Demand analysis - Impact of dependent/independent demand
• Differentiated service for customers
• Push and pull theory
• Performance analysis

Determining the supply chain 'to be'

On the successful completion of this Master Class, participants will be able to understand and apply:

• Compressing lead times, Use of the supply chain response matrix - the virtuous time circle impact of reducing lead time, service level, forecasting error, tracking signals.
• Differentiat products and customers
• Moving from Push to Pull
• Business, Supply Chain and Sales and operations planning requirements
• Using the 5 S's
• Visual Workplace
• Use of DRP and Fair Shares for Distribution
• Collaboration across the supply chain