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Supply Chain Best Practices: Concepts, Application & Risk Management
Concepts, Application & Risk Management
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Course Introduction
A supply chain encompasses a network of organizations involved in producing value through various processes and activities, from upstream production to downstream delivery to the consumer. This COPEX training course focuses on integrating business processes across the supply chain at strategic, tactical, and organizational levels. Delegates will gain insights into optimizing these processes to drive efficiency and reduce costs, empowering them to implement effective strategies and achieve significant savings within their organizations.
Training Objectives
By attending this COPEX training course, delegates will be able to:
- Understand the Process of Supply Chains Within Their Organisations
- Determine the Best Strategy for Inventory Management
- Identify Cost Savings Through Changes to Processes
- Recognise Risk and the Methods to Reduce it
- Understand the Principles of Finance and Cash Flow
Who should Attend?
This COPEX training course is suitable for middle and senior managers who have responsibility for operational areas in the organisation, as well as consultants and professionals who support them. For example:
- Operational Managers
- Financial Managers
- Risk Managers
- Board Level Executives and Non-Executives
Course Outline
- Supply Chain Definitions
- Supply Chain Models and Types
- Types of process frameworks
- Defining performance gaps
- Customers, competitive advantage and demand
- The Global Supply Chain
- Types of inventory
- Applying procurement strategies that maximize inventory turns
- Speeding the cash-to-cash cycle time
- The financial justification for change
- Supplier relationship management: strategies, approaches and tools
- Is your relationship transactional or outcome-based?
- Defining desired outcomes that are measurable
- Developing an effective outsourcing contract
- Designing a pricing model that incentivizes desired behaviours
- Evaluating cost/service trade-offs
- Internal supply chain risks
- PESTLE and external risks
- Risk management principles
- Evaluation and prioritisation of risks
- Contingency and risk management planning
- Rationale and approach to performance management
- Identifying, defining, and tracking your metrics
- Incentives and continuous improvement
- Re-engineering supply chains end to end to minimise risk
- Organisation development
Certificates
- COPEX Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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