Event Details
22 hours
The course will use a combination of instructor presentation, case studies, and group discussion
Available at QSG’s training facilities
Class 1: June 03, 2025
Start time: 08:30 a.m. EST
End time: 12:30 p.m. EST
Class 2: June 05, 2025
Start time: 08:30 a.m. EST
End time: 12:30 p.m. EST
Class 3: June 10, 2025
Start time: 08:30 a.m. EST
End time: 12:30 p.m. EST
Class 4: June 12, 2025
Start time: 08:30 a.m. EST
End time: 12:30 p.m. EST
Class 5: June 19, 2025
Start time: 08:30 a.m. EST
End time: 11:30 a.m. EST
Class 6: June 23, 2025
Start time: 08:30 a.m. EST
End time: 11:30 a.m. EST
Venue: Quality Support Group Facilities
Directions: Training located at Quality Support Group, 319 Littleton Rd STE 206, Westford, MA 01886. Please plan to arrive 15 minutes prior to the training session start time.
Description
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 created an absolute nightmare for Supply Chain
management professionals worldwide. The immediate impacts of high levels of
employee absenteeism and factory closings may be behind us, but the aftershocks of
COVID-19 continue in the form of persistent shortages on some materials and bloated
inventories on others. Additionally social distancing and work from home has resulted in
lower levels of collaboration within and among organizations.
The course “Supply Chain Management in the Post COVID-19 Environment” presents
strategic and tactical initiatives to improve supply chain performance from three different
perspectives:
- Creating and managing supply chains that support competitive advantage
- Inventory management
- Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for supply chain and operations professionals with responsibility in the following areas:
- Strategy development, and supply chain design.
- Supply partner relationships.
- Managing and optimizing supply chain performance.
- Inventory policy development
- Inventory optimization
- Manufacturing management and continuous improvement
Learning Objectives
Through training, participants will:
- Learn the importance of strategy development and deployment across the entire supply chain.
- Gain insight into how corporate strategy defines supply chain goals and objectives.
- See first-hand how supply chain collaboration improves performance of the entire supply chain as well the performance of all members of the supply chain.
- Learn the levels of supply chain collaboration maturity and the obstacles preventing organizations from doing more.
- Learn how supply chain shocks like COVID-19 impact the performance and management of supply chains.
- Understand the role of inventory in the supply chain, the most common reasons for excess inventory, and strategies to reduce inventory without impacting performance.
- Learn about Lean manufacturing principles and philosophies.
- Understand the need for continuous improvement and how to manage its attainment.
Course Outline
- Creating and managing supply chains that support competitive advantage. (8 hours)
- Corporate strategy development
- Supply chain definition
- Supply Chain design
- Supplier selection and certification
- Supply chain collaboration
- Supply chain resiliency
- Technologies used in supply chain management
- Inventory management (8 hours)
- Types and purposes of inventory
- Inventory metrics
- Causes of excess inventory
- Demand management
- S&OP planning
- Inventory segmentation
- Inventory record accuracy
- Lean manufacturing and continuous improvement (6 hours)
- Definition and history of Lean manufacturing
- Lean philosophy, culture, and leadership
- Lean manufacturing tools
- Continuous improvement
- Sand cone performance model
Topics 1 & 2 will be delivered in 2 x 4-hour sessions each
Topic 3 will be delivered in 2 x 3-hours sessions
