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Supply Chain Management: Planning

Supply Chain Planning: Demand Planning #SCP301, Member: $129 Non-Member: $195 (3 CEHs) Measuring the effectiveness of demand planning is key to continuously improving the demand plan. It is used to monitor the "health" of the supply chain. Demand planning is a critical element of safety stock calculations. This course reviews the key demand planning metrics and the acceptable average of those metrics for different industries. The goal of improving these metrics is optimized inventory levels, which eventually result in more inventory turns. The circumstances for using these measures, as well as when they are applicable, are other important concepts reviewed in this course.

Supply Chain Planning: Finding the Right Model #SCP201, Member: $99 Non-Member: $149 (2.5 CEHs) This Online Self-Study focuses on how to find the right planning model for supply chain planning. It starts by explaining what a planning model is. The course then moves into describing and analyzing the two categories of planning models: fulfillment and manufacturing. The course also discusses industry and functional aspects of planning models.

Supply Chain Planning: Integration #SCP601, Member: $99 Non-Member: $149 (2 CEHs) Companies manage their supply chains by connecting the functions in the supply chain--Procurement, Manufacturing, and Fulfillment--via supply chain planning processes. Supply chain planning processes coordinate and share information among the other supply chain functions to create an integrated supply chain. This two-hour Online Self-Study discusses the challenges, issues and processes incumbent in the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) integrated planning process.

Supply Chain Planning: Introduction #SCP101, Member: $79 Non-Member: $119 (1.5 CEHs) This course was designed to provide an overview of the entire supply chain planning process. It begins with the explanation of a supply chain and how supply chains are managed. The course exposes participants to the environment, basic concepts and terminology used in demand planning, inventory planning, master planning, detail production scheduling, material planning, distribution planning, fulfillment planning, and related components of a supply chain.

Supply Chain Planning: Leading Practices #SCP701, Member: $99 Non-Member: $149 (2 CEHs) Leading edge companies are using supply chain planning (SCP) capabilities to reduce costs, enhance revenue and yields, and achieve other operational benefits. Such companies pull ahead of their competitors with significantly reduced costs and/or increased yields. Supply chain leaders put increased pressure on competitors to implement leading supply chain planning practices as well.

Supply Chain Planning: Production Planning #SCP501, Member: $99 Non-Member: $149 (2.5 CEHs) Planning is the ability to create a plan of record from the requirements of the demand, supply and capacity plans. Production planning (PP) encompasses the allocation and deployment of resources to optimize plant capabilities. The course shows how to use the PP process, leveraging the PP inputs, to enable the organization to understand the viability of a production schedule and to understand actual production versus planned production. Key considerations in balancing the demand, supply and capacity plans, existing customer orders, and customer service objectives are discussed.

Supply Chain Planning: Supply Planning #SCP401, Member: $129 Non-Member: $195 (3 CEHs) Supply Planning (SP) is an Online Self-Study that provides an overview of the supply planning process, inputs, outputs and terminology. Supply planning is the ability to take the demand plan and, utilizing the distribution plan, inventory plan and rough-cut capacity plan, determine how to best meet the demand. Supply planning encompasses the allocation and deployment of resources, as well as facilitating order promising. The course shows how to use the supply planning process, leveraging the inputs, to enable the organization to maintain the optimal amount of inventory in order to meet customer service levels and place required capabilities in place before demand arises. Key considerations in balancing the demand plan, existing customer orders, and customer service objectives are discussed.