Supply Chain Management Strategies


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Expected Duration
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Overview/Description
This course will present the fundamental supply chain management (SCM) strategies one needs to consider before implementing an effective and workable SCM system. SCM concepts and strategies included in this course are centralised and decentralised distribution systems, push- and pull-based supply chains, risk pooling, the bullwhip effect, and centralised and decentralised inventory systems. The course will also examine the importance of supply chain partnerships and will look at strategies for implementing a global supply chain. Completion of the course will allow the learner to assess the needs of a particular organisation and choose the strategies that will help build a successful SCM system.

Target Audience
Managers, team leaders, implementers, project managers and coaches who are considering implementing SCM systems across their organisations

Expected Duration (hours)
5.5

Lesson Objectives

Supply Chain Strategies

  • recognise the benefits of implementing fundamental supply chain management strategies within an organisation.
  • identify the relevant information for determining an effective location and production strategy for an organisation.
  • identify the advantages and disadvantages of both a centralised and decentralised distribution system.
  • identify business supply chains that are structured to take advantage of risk pooling.
  • match push- and pull-based supply chain models to business practices that reflect each.
  • associate three distribution strategies to business practices that accomplish each.
  • analyse an organisation's supply chain to implement an effective distribution strategy in a given scenario.

    • Supply Chain Partnerships

  • recognise the benefits of strong supply chain partnerships.
  • match the five factors that contribute to the bullwhip effect to business practices that represent each.
  • determine the business practices that will implement each of the four information-sharing strategies.
  • match supply chain partnership strategies to business practices that represent each.
  • identify the five components of a supply chain an organisation must prepare in order to ensure an effective global supply chain.
  • recommend steps for effectively implementing a global supply chain in a given scenario.

    • Course Number:
    OPER8502