Designing and Implementing Supply Chain Strategy
- Overview of commercial pressures impacting global organizations and procurement reactions.
- Managing internal changes, communication, and resistance to change in organizations.
- Utilizing ERP systems for managing new organization and process management.
- Setting up supply chain structure, differentiating strategies, and managing people issues.
- Course designed for practitioners introducing change programs in large organizations.
Overview
This one-day course focuses on the impact of external changes on supply chains, the implementation of change programs, the use of systems for managing organizations, setting up supply chain structures, and differentiating in the supply chain. The course aims to provide an overview of commercial pressures affecting global organizations and how procurement can adapt to these changes. It is designed for practitioners responsible for implementing change programs in large organizations.
Who should attend
Practitioners, Managers
Course Content
Course duration: 1 Day
Course running order
The Need for Change
The drivers for change in the world markets
Globalisation, Technology Convergence, Consumerism, Sourcing from Low Cost Countries
Organisations in World Trade- WTO, Asean, EU, NAFTA
The impact of External Changes on our Supply Chains
Aggregation and consolidation
Procurement’s role in the value chain
The role of purchasing in globalisation
Implementing change programmes
Managing the internal changes
Setting up the project
Managing communication
Managing the traditionalists
Managing resistance to change
Stakeholder analysis
Project management of work streams
Using independent help
Using Systems
A look at ERP type systems for managing the new organisation
Process management
The new skills for Procurement
Skills of the new purchaser
Setting up the supply chain structure
Make versus buy
The types of suppliers
The types of Logistics
Differentiating in the supply chain
Selecting the right relationship strategies
Developing these relationships
Managing the people issues
Course Objectives
To provide delegates with an overview of the commercial pressures, such as sourcing from Low Cost Countries, that are impacting on global organisations and looking at ways in which procurement is having to react and how introducing these changes can be best managed
Who should attend?
Practitioners charged with introducing changes programmes within large organisations
