Applying Lean Principles Across the Supply Chain

Applying Lean Principles Across the Supply Chain introduces a systemic approach for applying Lean thinking to supply chain challenges. You’ll receive practical, hands-on insights from industry leaders such as Kraft Foods and Dell. You’ll also learn principles and tools for greater supply chain speed and efficiency. Specifically, the program will provide an understanding of:

• Drivers of change that impact the strategy and design of existing models and systems

• Inefficiencies of various supply chain models and how to eliminate them

• Processes that ensure your supply chain is Lean, effective and efficient

• Principles essential to extending Lean practices beyond your enterprise to suppliers and customers.

Applying Lean Principles Across the Supply Chain is designed for all managers and executives interested in applying Lean practices and concepts in the development and management of a supply chain strategy. Representative titles of participants include: vice president, director or manager of logistics, purchasing, supply chains, operations, distribution or materials management.

Upon completion of Applying Lean Principles Across the Supply Chain, you will be able to:

• Recession-proof your supply chain
• Produce superior results and improved work teams
• Identify and eliminate physical (inventory) and process waste
• Increase end-to-end system speed and efficiency
• Understand and communicate to top management the financial importance of Lean

 
This program now awards 3 CEUs.

Penn State Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available based on a standard of one unit per ten hours of classroom instruction. Upon completion of this program, each participant will be awarded a certificate for three (3.0) Penn State CEUs earned.

 Lean Thinking: Principles and Building Blocks

• “Waste” definition (10 wastes)
• Analysis of process
• Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
• Evolution/Maturity model 

 
Lean and Manufacturing

• Extended supply chain (scope)
• Interpretation of tools
• Examples of Lean projects 

 
Lean and Enterprise Supply Chains

• Improvement within supply chain functions
• Integrated SCM (within the enterprise)
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• Collaborative product design and management 

Extended Lean Across the Supply Chain

• Lean with customers and suppliers
• Demand planning
• Supply sourcing and relationship management
• Data management synchronization, visibility, and security
• Joint opportunities for Lean
• Customer collaboration and planned order systems 

Implementing Lean in the Supply Chain

• Effective Leadership Models
• Relationship between logistics and customer satisfaction
• Methodologies for measuring effectiveness 

Lean Simulation
Applying Lean Across the Supply Chain includes a valuable simulation that drives home the power of an effective Lean system. In a risk-free environment, participant teams will assume the role of a prime contractor and three sub contractors working to complete a 36-month government contract to build and deliver 15 F35V Strike Fighter Aircraft.

 “Probably the best executive supply chain course I've ever attended. The right combination of theory, practical implementation, and test cases from industry. Incorporating speakers that have implemented these steps was valuable in understanding the importance of these tools and how to implement them in our own companies. The faculty and staff did a great job in engaging the group. I gained considerable knowledge about how Lean can positively impact supply chain.”

Faculty Director

Norman Aggon, Assistant Department Chairman, Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems, The Smeal College of Business, Penn State

Faculty Leaders

Frank Chelko, Instructor of Operations & Supply Chain Management, The Smeal College of Business, Penn State

David Demers, Managing Director and Co-founder, Avicon Partners LLC; and Adjunct Professor, The Smeal College of Business, Penn State

David Veech, Executive Director, Institute for Lean Systems, University of Kentucky

Additional Supply Chain Offerings Include:

• Essentials of Supply Chain Management covers topics for building maximum efficiency through better reporting and measurement systems.
  
• Processes and Tools for Supply Chain Success covers the latest technology and methods for defining, analyzing, and making recommendations for performance improvements.

• Achieving Supply Chain Transformation covers the critical elements of adaptive supply chain management: strategy, people, process, IT, and assessment.

• Designing and Leading Competitive Supply Chains covers developing supply chain systems that support organizational strategy.

• Developing World-Class Supply Chain Collaboration provides the tools and learning, based on practical applications, to start or improve your collaboration initiatives.

• Building Global Supply Chains for Competitive Advantage - NEW addresses supply chain macroeconomic factors, leading teams across geographies, global trade management and transportation issues

Enhance Your Competencies with a Supply Chain Certificate!