Strategic
Supply Management
Become a best-in-class supply management organization!
Operating a world-class supply management department can improve
your products and services, optimize the use of resources, and
lower costs for your organization. Managing the entire supply
chain to accomplish this is a complex challenge for today’s
supply managers.
Strategic Supply Management lays out in practical detail
everything you need to know to set the key strategic direction
to achieve this goal and your own success as a procurement professional.
This self-study program represents the most up-to-date practices
in the profession and presents the tools and knowledge necessary
to manage supply chains and suppliers within any enterprise. It
offers real experience with work assignments you can use to create
a strategy, define resources, develop metrics, manage improvements
in the supply chain, and utilize best-in-class processes.
This course offers step-by-step guidance on how you can build
and measure your strategic supplier relationships and helps you
understand the ramifications of global sourcing. Timely thinking
on the role of e-business and an overview of the latest legal
issues provide a current basis for the decision-making required
of supply managers today..
You’ll learn how to
- See things from the customer’s point of view
- Create and implement supply management strategy
- Measure and achieve effective total costs
- Hire, manage, and develop purchasing staff
- Integrate production and service plans
- Control inventory input and output
- Develop improvement plans with suppliers
- Use computer technology in supply management
- Establish and develop effective supply chains
- Understand the legal aspects of supply management
- Benchmark and become a best-in-class supply management organization
Course Objective:Teach procurement professionals
how to establish and operate a supply management department
that achieves strategic objectives.
Level: Intermediate
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