Supply Chain

Macquarie Graduate School of Management
Sydney, NSW, Australia

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online/Live | On-site/In-house | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' There is a growing understanding of the strategic importance of supply chain management.

Achieving a step change improvement in your organisation’s supply chain management practices can have a significant impact on competitiveness through enhanced customer service and flexibility, while also reducing costs through more effectively managing inventory.

This program is designed for senior executives seeking to understand how to design contemporary high-performance supply chains. It will provide executives with a holistic model that addresses infrastructure, processes, technology and people issues.

The program is relevant for executives from product, service, government or not-for-profit organisations.

Participants will receive field-tested frameworks and diagnostics to take back and apply inside their own organisation.

Organisations are encouraged to send small, multi-functional teams to internalise key learnings within your organisation, and optimise the impact of this initiative.

Content

Logistics and the Supply Chain

Logistics and the supply chain are now widely recognised as a powerful source of competitive advantage. This session will examine the ways in which organisations can develop supply chain strategies that deliver more customer value, at less cost.

’Dynamic’ Supply Chain Alignment

Many of today’s supply chain problems are due to mis-alignment with customers. This session explores how customers want to buy your products and services, and how to use this information to reverse-engineer your internal operations.

Continuous Replenishment Supply Chain Partnerships

This session covers the Continuous Replenishment configuration, designed specifically to service brand loyal customers who value relationships. Models outline how to identify customers who value this level of collaboration.

Lean and Agile Supply Chains

The search for efficient solutions intensify when low cost is the primary priority. This session explores the origins of ’lean thinking’ and implementation strategies. However, for organisations faced with volatile markets and demanding customers, then the need for responsiveness is paramount. This session also addresses how to create fast-reacting or agile supply chains through developing sufficient ’capacity’ ahead of time to absorb both expected and unexpected volatility in demand patterns.

Third Party Logistics

As supply chains are stretched to work with regional suppliers and customers, companies are increasingly working with external parties that provide additional capabilities, seamlessly. This session discusses how third party logistics providers have established credible offerings and how these changes have led to new business models.

Resolving Complexity through Network Optimisation

The Internet Age has driven an exponential increase in complexity within the supply chain. This session explores how Network Optimisation modelling can resolve complexity and make business more manageable.

Sales & Operations Planning

Sales & Operations Planning is at the heart of contemporary supply chains. This session will demonstrate how forecasts of demand in unpredictable markets are taken and systematically converted into agreed demand plans that everyone inside the enterprise lives by, day-to-day.

The Impact of Pricing Regimes

This session explores how organisations such as Wal-Mart have used pricing to create new perceptions of value. Participants will understand how pricing can change customer’s buying values.

Supply Chain Performance Measures

This session provides a framework of key performance indicators which can be used to measure a multi-faceted supply chain network. It also covers potential pitfalls when managers set and monitor KPIs which actually driving mis-alignment with customers and suppliers.

Supply Chains in China and India

This session will focus on the new (supply chain) business models that have emerged from Asia in recent years, led by companies such as Li & Fung. While China is building all the necessary supply chain infrastructural assets, India is building all the virtual (IT) ’highways’.

Managing Risk

The turbulence and uncertainty that increasingly impacts supply chains is now a concern for all businesses. This session highlights the ways in which organisations can better manage and mitigate risk across the supply chain network.

Supply Chain Sustainability Forum

The sustainability of enterprise supply chains is now in question as consumers seek to favour those corporations that demonstrate corporate social responsibility in how they treat the environment and their workers. This forum will discuss issues of sustainability within the supply chain.

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Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

Phone:+612 9850 9017

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Macquarie University
NSW 2109 Australia

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