This course supports the ‘Strategic Purchasing Management’ course and deals with the practical issues of planning and working day-to-day with key suppliers whilst working in a continuous improvement environment.

It is designed in workshop style and explains how to establish a supplier partnership based on supplier scheduling and other techniques. It clarifies the roles of buyers and planners, and shows where key business improvement may be sought.

Course Content

This course provides the comprehensive and practical understanding of how to exploit your ERP system in the incoming supply chain through supplier planning and how this is at the heart of managing a supplier partnership in a very different way.

The principles of Integrated Business Planning and the implications of changes in product, demand, and supply plans on the supply base. How ERP systems work, the impact of data integrity and how the supplier plan is derived from the company Master Schedule through Material Requirements Planning (MRP). The organisational implications of introducing ERP and the different roles of buying and planning. The basics of a good supplier education package and how to roll out MRP to suppliers and plan jointly. Commodity profiling: where commodities and suppliers fit in value and importance: and the successful behaviours for each approach. Procurement measuring, especially supplier performance, and how to review joint processes and target gains for both parties. Alternative replenishment methods with detailed explanations of kanban, VMI, consignment stock, CPFR, and the growing use of ‘e’ in catalogues, exchanges, auctions and reverse auctions. The vital role that people play in making the relationship work with company engagement at all levels to ensure that the partnership grows to mutual benefit. The Oliver Wight Proven Path process for ERP and other project management and how this is used in procurement.

Understand how Integrated Business Planning is used to manage the business and what new information is available to help suppliers plan their way forward. Be familiar with the planning processes which underpin ERP systems and their linkage to procurement from a master schedule, BOM, inventory management, and MRP. It especially focuses on the use of time fences and how to bring order into incoming supply. Understand the roles and responsibilities of buyers and supplier planners, their communication processes, and the characteristics, skills, and competences for success, and how they may be measured and targeted. Identify alternative schedule formats and their appropriate use and be able to design formats for their company. Be able to plan and introduce supplier planning including supplier awareness and education campaigns and how to roll out to the preferred supplier base. Understand where your suppliers fit in commodity profiling and the best way of managing them for your business. Measure and improve supplier performance through changes in the processes of both parties. Understand alternative replenishment methods and their use for business gains. How to prepare a project plan and carry it through to success.

This course is for all those actively involved in implementing change and improvement in procurement and especially for those introducing ERP systems or managing with ERP day by day. It is a vital grounding for managers to understand what their people should be targeted to do and achieve, and to particularly help buyers and supplier planners to achieve Class A excellence in purchasing and incoming supply.

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Supply Planning in Practice
Strategic Purchasing Management

This course is only offered privately. For information contact us.

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