Introduction to Supply Chain Management
- Introduction to supply chain concepts, lean thinking, and commercial concepts.
- The role of procurement in overall business efficiency and risk management.
- How procurement adds value through segmenting expenditures and relationships.
- Designing supply chains with key steps, mapping, tiering, and networks.
- E-Procurement's impact on supply chain management and typical approaches.
Overview
This 2-day course provides an overview of supply chain concepts, procurement's role in business efficiency, adding value in the supply chain, designing supply chains, and e-procurement. The practical program aims to equip new and developing teams with tools and techniques to implement in their work environment. Suitable for new procurement professionals, the course emphasizes understanding modern procurement's alignment with business objectives and value-added activities.
Who should attend
Procurement Practitioners
Course Content
Course duration: 2 Days
Course Running Order
Introduction to Supply Chain concepts
· Concepts – supply chain management, materials management, logistics, and purchasing
· Commercial Concepts – competitive advantage, added value, business goals and objectives
· Lean thinking and supply chain management
The role of procurement
· Procurements’ ‘fit’ with the overall business
· Purchase spend as a percentage of total cost of operation
· Impact of supply chain performance on overall business efficiencies
· Purchasing as a risk management and cost reduction activity
How procurement adds value in the supply chain
· Segmenting organisational expenditures
· Defining how we add value in each segment of our spend portfolio
· Leveraging, partnering, managing for security, and routine purchases
· Deciding on the right kind of relationship for each purchase
· Setting up our activities to maximise our value added
Designing supply chains
· 7 key steps in supply chain design
· Supply chain mapping
· Tiering in supply chains
· Seeing supply chains as competing networks
E-Procurement
· The impact of E-commerce on SCM
· Typical approaches to the use of E-commerce
· E-auctions when and how to use them
Course Objectives
To give new teams and teams seeking development an overview of the current practices and issue affecting supply chains. The programme has a practical thrust that aims to allow attendees to introduce practical tools and techniques covered on the programme within their work environment
Who should attend?
The course would suit new starters and practitioners who have limited previous experience in the procurement profession
Delegates will be gain an overview of how modern procurement fits within the overall objectives of their business. They will learn the concept of value added activity and how to apply this style of thinking in their pursuit of procurement activities.
Duration / Fees
A 2-day single manned course
