Supply Chain Professional Course - Learn Now

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Course Overview

Supply Management manages relationships, information, and materials flows across organisational boundaries to deliver enhanced customer service and economic value. Supply managers aim towards synchronising and amalgamating these flows through the implementation of a specific ordering of work activities across time and place, with a beginning, an end, clearly identified inputs and outputs, as well as a structure for action.

Project Management is also a structured process of managing workflow in a specific order across time and place. The close similarities between these two processes provide a firm foundation to expand the supply manager's worldview to adopt project management principles and techniques. This course focuses on integrating project management principles into the supply management process.

This course will teach you how project management concepts are applied to enhance supply management. You will also gain an understanding of the tools and techniques used to initiate, execute, manage and control a project.

Objective:

Organise, plan, launch, track, and close a project
Create a clear project objective and work breakdown structure
Master project planning, execution and control skills
Identify the skills necessary to lead or serve on a project team
Utilize project management-related techniques
Create an accurate project timeline
Incorporate uncertainties in project time and cost plans
Use various project scheduling techniques
Plan a project balancing the constraints of scope, time, cost and quality
Complete project cost estimation and financial evaluations
Build and maintain effective and efficient project procedures and processes
Identify improvement opportunities to manage supply chains better
Demonstrate proficiency in developing project plans and making sound decisions
List the objectives of inventory management and its impact on cost and customer service.
Perform proper inventory classification and use best practices for item specification/cataloguing.
Use forecasting techniques to predict demand and better manage lead times.
Identify the optimum ordering quantity and determine safety stocks and reorder points.
Conduct cycle counts, improve inventory record accuracy, and find ways to reduce inventories.
List various techniques to minimise inventory, including JIT (Just-In-Time).
Apply Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure and improve inventory performance.

Course Outline

Day 1 - Setting up the Scene

Project management terminology and life-cycle project phases
Overview of the Project Management Process
Key areas of Project Management Body of Knowledge
Supply management and project management: similarities and differences
Types of integration
Impact of early decisions on project success
Classical project phases
Project scope – parameters & constraints
The concept of Value-for-Money project delivery
The project supply chain

Day 2 - Demand Planning

how to introduce a better demand planning process in their organisation
the importance of forecasting
the relationship between forecasting and demand planning
influencing, adjusting and managing demand
the key performance measures used in demand planning
how to stabilise demand and create a better balance between supply and demand

Day 3 - Operation and Inventory

Thorough understanding of competitive advantages
Strategic plans, activities and critical decisions are required when managing operations in an organisation.
You will know the characteristics of an operations manager and the relationship between operations, productivity and competitiveness.
Inventory control
Inventory management
Warehouse management
Traffic management
Supply chain management
Supervision and leadership
Purchasing
Computerised logistics

Day 4 - Effective Project Relationships Management

Suppliers/contractors selection
Project manager skills
Building and sustaining professional relationships
Trust and trust building
Principled negotiations
Leadership skills
Dealing with professional disagreements

Day 5 - Project Execution and Closure

Change control processes
Identifying measurements of project success
Project monitoring
Integrating project scope, time and cost
Leading and lagging indicators
Project plan update
Project reporting: to whom and to what level?
Closing and evaluation of the project
Project success factors
Application of lessons learned

Schedule & Fees

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Amsterdam

$5,300

Duration: 5 Days

date: 03 - 07 Mar 2025

London

$4,900

Duration: 5 Days

date: 07 - 11 Jul 2025

London

$4,900

Duration: 5 Days

date: 03 - 07 Nov 2025

Contract and Project Management

Project Management for Supply Chain Professionals

Duration:5 Days

date:03 - 07 Nov 2025

London

$4,900

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