Supply Chain Management (On-site)

    The Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management

The Evolution of Supply Chain Management

• Recognise the benefits of understanding the concept of Supply Chain Management and the impact it has on organisations.
• Sequence historical phases in the evolution of supply chain management.
• Match the components of a supply chain to organisational functions.
• Identify the possible outcomes of inter-organisational collaboration within a hypothetical supply chain.
• Match the characteristics of a supply chain management system with the functions.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of an organisation’s supply chain management system and recommend improvements, in a given scenario.

Managing the Supply Chain

• Recognise the benefits of successfully managing a supply chain.
• Label the strategy statements of an organisation as either strategic or operational in nature.
• Identify the corresponding impacts that product design decisions have on the manufacturing and distribution processes throughout a supply chain.
• Match the management objectives, used to synchronise a supply chain.
• Apply the appropriate management techniques to effectively synchronise a supply chain, in a given scenario.
• Associate types of information technology with their primary function within a supply chain.
• Evaluate an organisation’s business operations, to recommend how to better utilise information technology in it’s supply chain.

Supply Chain Management Strategies

• Recognise the benefits of implementing fundamental supply chain management strategies within an organization.
• 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.
• 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.
• Determine the business practices that will implement each of the four information-sharing strategies.
• Match supply chain partnership strategies to business practices.
• 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.

Supply Chain Planning and Inventory Management

• Planning for Supply and Demand.
• Recognise the benefits of effectively planning for supply and demand within an organisation’s supply chain.
• Associate an organisation’s planning activities to the steps for developing an effective supply chain.
• Strategy for satisfying customers.
• Identify accurate descriptions of the four types of forecasting methods used to predict customer demand for a product or service.
• Identify the types of information that should be gathered for a supply chain aggregate plan.
• Apply effective aggregate planning strategies to properly balance cost, production and customer demand within a supply chain.
• Relate the supply chain activities of an organisation to the supply and demand methodology they each support.
• Effectively manage an organisation’s supply and demand variables based upon an evaluation of its production initiatives in a given scenario.

Inventory Management

• Recognise the benefits of successfully managing inventory within an organisation’s supply chain.
• Associate the costs that affect the level of cycle inventory within a supply chain.
• Select factors that influence an organisation’s levels of safety inventory.
• Match the levers for improving supply chain profitability to an organisation’s inventory practices.
• Identify the costs that an organisation needs to consider to maintain optimal product levels within a supply chain.
• Determine the best method for achieving an optimal level of product availability within an organisation.

Supply Chain Management and e-Business Merge

• Recognise the benefits an organization can experience by incorporating the Internet into its supply chain operations.
• Match the business changes resulting from the use of technology and the Internet to organisational practices.
• Match the three areas of impact to the value each adds to an e-business’ supply chain.
• Identify the strategies for using technology to improve a supply chain’s effectiveness.
• Use technology to effectively influence customer demand and fulfilment within an organisation’s supply chain.
• Identify the strategies for effectively using technology to improve supply chain performance.
• Apply strategies to use technology within a supply chain to improve its performance in a given scenario.

Effective Supply Chains and e-Business

• Recognise the benefits of effective supply chain activities in an e-business environment.
• Identify three ways to approach cost reduction in an e-business supply chain.
• Match the types of Supply Chain Transportation and Facility Design Capital to the influences they have on an e-business supply chain.
• Identify three key areas that impact the revenue of an e-business supply chain.
• Apply supply chain methods to enhance revenues of an e-business in a given scenario.
• Match the three opportunities that can be realized in an e-business environment to supply chain activities.
• Apply supply chain strategies to exploit new e-business opportunities in a given scenario.

Supply Chain Transportation and Facility Design

• Recognise the benefits of implementing an effective transportation network design within an organization’s supply chain.
• Associate the roles of a transportation network to an organization’s supply chain practices.
• Match each of the supply chain transportation modes to its relative speed and cost.
• Determine the best mode of transportation for a supply chain in a given scenario.
• Associate the considerations for designing a transportation network to the impact they would have on an organization’s supply chain.
• Identify supply chain practices that represent the two basic transportation network designs.
• Determine the most effective transportation network design for an organization’s supply chain in a given scenario.
• Recognise the benefits of implementing a well-designed facility network within a supply chain.
• Identify the four decisions an organization should make to design an effective supply chain facility network.
• Match the factors influencing facility network design..
• Use the factors influencing facility network design to implement an effective network design in a given scenario.
• Sequence the steps for making effective facility network design decisions.
• Match areas in which changes may necessitate redesign of a facility network to activities.