Location

Community Services & Continuing Education - Alexandria

Objectives

• This course looks at the planning for a supply chain. This starts with the design of a logistics strategy, and then shows how this strategy can be implemented. Important decisions include the structure of the supply chain and the location, number and size of facilities. These decisions lead to lower level plans to organize activities and resources.

Outcomes

By the end of this course you will be able to: Define a logistics strategy and discuss its focus. See how a logistics strategy fits into an organization’s broader decisions. Know alternative logistics strategies. Approach the design of a logistics strategy. Describe the steps involved in implementing a logistics strategy. Assess the problems of implementation. Consider the decisions needed for implementing the logistics strategy. Recognise the continual change in the supply chain. Measure the capacity of a supply chain. See how to design medium-term tactical plans. Use Material requirements planning (MRP) to timetable orders and deliveries. Describe the principles of Just-In-Time operations. Design kanban systems for controlling JIT. Extend JIT along the supply chain for efficient consumer response. Applying what was learned during the course to organizations from the actual market reality (Hospital sector, clothes sector, food manufacturing, financial s

Course Contents

Logistics Strategy Strategic decisions Strategy options Designing a logistics strategyImplementing the Strategy Relating strategy to lower decisions Areas for decisions in implementation Managing changePlanning Resources Types of planning Capacity planning  Adjusting capacity  Tactical planning  Short-term schedulesControlling Material Flow Material requirements planning (MRP) Extending the role of MRP  Principles of just-in-time (JIT) Achieving just-in-time operations  Extending JIT along the supply chain Case studies to real organizations from the market.