Course Description

Language of Instruction:English|Category: Supply Chain Management: Business & Professional

Think of who all are involved in making a car. What will happen if just one raw material supplier decides to supply material only one day a week [local optimization]? It will cause a huge bottleneck at the receiver side, choking all activities down the stream. Your entire delivery could be delayed due that one action. Every part supplier, raw material provider, designer, operator, worker, supervisor, assembler, marketeer, distributor, transporter, and more comprise the supply chain. Unless you manage the entire supply chain, you can’t deliver high quality cars on time and within budget.

That’s what fascinatingly silent but critical role supply chain management plays : help you manage your entire supply chain.

Unlike traditional performance improvement programs, which focus on managing the output of individual business processes within a company, improvements in Supply Chain affect almost all business processes across all companies engaged in the design, production, and delivery of a product.

There are two reasons why this course will help you improve your place and position in the market place of ideas and profits and jobs:

• Supply Chain Management is perhaps the only discipline that engages the attention of all professionals in product design, production, planning, sourcing, information technology, quality control, logistics, distribution, obsolescence and myriad of other functions. This course gives professionals in these and other areas of work a deeper and broader perspective of how supply chain processes affect the quality and the effectiveness of their work.
• Supply chain management helps or hinders the output of most all business processes. This course provides an inside out view of supply chain processes as and when and how they energize or de-energize the broad spectrum of intra-company and inter-company business processes.

Eight things you will know by the end of the Supply Chain Management seminar series:

• What are the major Supply Chain business processes ?
• How do these business processes effect companies and people who collaborate to design, produce, test, pack, transport, maintain, service, and manage the obsolescence of products ranging from software to hardware, from simple to complex, and from the smallest in size to the largest
• How to design, build, and test supply chain business processes ?
• The technologies that are driving the design, build and testing of the supply chain business processes
• How is collaboration built into the design of supply chain management?
• The technologies that are driving collaboration and are the bedrock of supply chain business processes
• What are the key standards used to measure the effectiveness of supply chain business processes?
• The technologies that are driving the execution of these standards of quality

This course will be helpful for:

• Those of you who want to become supply chain management professionals with practical knowledge that might help them get SCM management positions.
• Help supply chain management professionals measure and improve the performance of their supply chains
• Help all other working professionals gain an insight into supply chain management issues that might affect their own performance, be it in product design, manufacturing, quality control, industrial engineering, finance and accounting and/or other related professions.

What’s in the course:

• 10 LIVE interactive online classes + Access to class recordings
• Course timings: Saturdays at 4 PM EST
• Online access to study material
• 2 online tests

Course outline:

• Key Concepts of Supply Chain Management
• How the Supply Chain Works
• The Evolving Structure of Supply Chains
• Participants in the Supply Chain
• Aligning the Supply Chain with Business Strategy
• Advanced Concepts in Supply Chain Management
• The Bullwhip Effect and other features of SCM
• Collaborative aspects of SCM in Planning, Forecasting, Replenishment and other activities
• How to manage Supply Chain Collaboration 2
• Supply Chain Operations
• Planning (Demand Forecasting, Product Pricing)
• Sourcing
• Order Management
• Inventory Management
• Delivery Scheduling
• Return Processing Strategic Operational Issues: Production - Product redesign and product development - key leverage points Inventory vs. service tradeoffs eBusiness logistics
• Facility Management 3 Benchmarking: Diagnostics for SC performance Metrics for benchmarking
• Metrics for Measuring Supply Chain Market Performance
• Framework for Performance Measurement
• Customer Service Metrics
• Internal Efficiency Metrics
• Demand Flexibility Metrics
• Modeling and Analysis: Benefits of modeling Key variables, control levers and critical tradeoffs Good and bad metrics
• Product Development Metrics that Enable Supply Chain Performance
• Collecting and Displaying Performance Data
• Three Levels of Detail Spotlighting Problems and Finding Opportunities as Markets Migrate from One Quadrant to Another
• Sharing Data Across the Supply Chain 4 Information Flows:
  Information Technology and Systems that Support the Supply Chain Data Capture and Data Communications Collaborative SCM Applications:
• New Trends in Supply Chain Technology
• Cloud Computing Cross-functional approaches Collaborative systems and applications Building partnerships
• Defining Supply Chain Opportunities: The Supply Chain as a Competitive Advantage
• Identifying Business Opportunities
• Defining the Goal and Create the Strategy
• Create a Conceptual System Design Strategic Guidelines for Designing Systems
• Defining Project Objectives to Create an Initial Project Plan and Budget Estimate
• ROI and Specific Costs and Benefits Developing Supply Chain Strategy
• Supply Chain Innovation for the Real-Time Economy Coordination and Collaboration Matching strategies to needs
• The Promise of the Real-Time Supply Chain
• The Profit Potential of the Self-Adjusting Feedback Loop
• Harnessing the Feedback Loop to the Supply Chain Playing
• Emergent Behavior in Supply Chains
• Adaptive Networks and Economic Cycles

About the instructor:

Saleem Javaid has 25 years experience as a senior executive in aerospace industry and 8 years as faculty member at Georgia Southern University, Statesboro GA. His teaching methodology is a combination of lectures, tests, in class assignments, out of class projects. He believes in one on one engagement with each student with emphasis on learning, retaining, and applying key concepts and doing well in tests.

Qualifications :

• Financial Management and Accounting – graduate work at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
• M. Sc Applied Psychology from Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan
• B. Sc in Industrial Engineering from Imperial College, University of London
• C. P. I. M. (Certified in Production and Inventory Management)

Publications :

• Book : “Dynamics of Capacity Utilization and Strategic Performance in Aerospace and Defense industry”
• 1982 Conference Paper - “Maximizing velocity and value in the Supply Chain - in aerospace industry” in 1997
• White Paper - “Airlines – the changing business model” in 2002

He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.