Processes and Tools for Supply Chain Success

Processes and Tools for Supply Chain Success presents a practical overview of the tools and resources necessary for improving business performance in the supply chain. The program presents the latest methods and technology for defining, analyzing, and making recommendations for change. It provides a framework for attendees to compute the benefits that can be expected and understand the challenges that might be encountered with implementation.

This program is for managers and executives who want to better understand and use state-of-the-art tools and concepts in supply chain management and operations. Those who work as functional counterparts in finance, information systems, manufacturing, or marketing will also benefit. This is a required course for those pursuing a Certificate in Supply Chain Management.

Process and Tools for Supply Chain Success will improve your ability to:

• Plan supply chains on a global scale
• Better measure and manage profits and costs 
• Better manage the physical flow of products
• Improve the quality and dependability of products and services 
• Increase the speed of delivery and reduce waste 
• Achieve rapid improvements in operational efficiency and effectiveness

Processes and Tools for Supply Chain Success incorporates the standard supply chain processes of PLAN, SOURCE, MAKE, DELIVER, and RETURN – also known as the SCOR model – to introduce important technologies and methods that drive performance improvement at each action point.

Tools for the PLAN process

• Modeling and designing global supply chain networks
• Assessing improvement opportunities using ABC Analysis
• Advanced supply chain planning tools (APO, APS, Inventory Optimization)
• Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR)
• Public/private sector comparisons

Tools for the SOURCE process

• Supplier relationship management and strategic procurement
  
• Reverse auctions
  
• Landed cost models
  

Tools for the MAKE process

• Lean and Six Sigma in the supply chain

Tools for the DELIVER process

• Warehouse management systems
• Transportation management systems

Tools for the RETURN process

• Closed-loop supply chains

Challenges of tool implementation

Putting theory into practice

• Application workshops
  
• Real-world cases in process operation
  
• Corporate presentations of benchmark practices

“I thoroughly enjoyed this class. Great mix of academia and real life examples; great class participation and great instructors. I found this course to be very relevant to my current job activities.”

Processes and Tools for Supply Chain Success includes a valuable business simulation exercise. In a risk-free environment, participant teams apply newly learned program concepts to running their own electronics manufacturing company.

The effects of uncertainty as they apply to supply chains are large and important. The simulation drives home key concepts of the program by allowing the participant to test:

• changes in manufacturing processes and flows
• changes in coordination across supply chain partners
• any kind of impact that contains uncertainty
  
  

  “This is a very top-notch program beneficial to the survival of any organization that wants to remain in business today.”

  – Carl Comeau, Supervisor, Manufacturing Support, Cobham Defense Electronic Systems Corporation

  
  

Faculty Director

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

Faculty Leaders from Penn State

Daniel Guide, Associate Professor of Operations & Supply Chain Management
Learn about some insightful experiences Daniel Guide uses to enrich his educational approach!

Terry Harrison, Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems

Anthony Kwasnica, Associate Professor of Business Economics

Robert Novack, Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management

Richard Wysk, Leonhard Chair in Engineering, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Faculty Leaders from Business and Industry

George Harry
Darren Maynard
John Metzger

Additional Supply Chain Offerings Include:

• Essentials of Supply Chain Management  covers topics for building maximum efficiency through better reporting and measurement systems.

• 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.

• Applying Lean Principles Across the Supply Chain introduces a systemic approach for applying Lean thinking to supply chain challenges and focuses on principles, tools, and application of strategy for greater speed and efficiency.

• 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.

There is no prerequisite for attending any of these programs. An Executive Programs representative will be happy to help you select the appropriate program for your current level of responsibility.

This program is cosponsored by the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals.

Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals
333 East Butterfield Road, Suite 140
Lombard, IL 60148
630-574-0985
FAX: 630-574-0989