Supply Chain Management (FULL COURSE)

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This is a full and complete introduction to supply chain management training. We are confident that taking this course will introduce you to several skills that will give you the advantage of solving important supply chain real-life problems. It is presented in both video, text, and audio. Research has shown that the human brain can process video images much faster than text alone. The combination of video, audio, and text is appropriate for your maximum understanding of the course.

At the end of each lesson, you shall answer a test question to show your understanding of the concept before you progress to the next lesson.

The course is divided into three chapters and 42 video lessons. You can play it on your computer, mobile phone, tablet, etc.

CERTIFICATION

At the end of the course, you shall PRESS the certificate button to print your certificate and save the soft copy in your system as leverage in case the first one has any problem.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

CHAPTER ONE
• Introduction to Supply Chain Management
– Introduction To Supply Chain Management
– Definition of Supply Chain management
– Importance Of Supply Management
– Purpose of Supply Chain
– Supply Chain Value Added
– Supply Chain and Logistics
– Perspectives Of Supply Chain
– Historical framework of supply chain management

CHAPTER TWO
• Transportation
– Road vehicles (trucks)
– Railways.
– Inland waterways (barges)
– Deep-sea
– Air (Aircraft and drones)
– Pipelines.
– A combination of the above is called inter-modal or multi-modal.

• Warehousing
– Types of warehouses
– Functions of warehouse
– Functions of warehouse
– Warehouse design
– Advantages of warehouse

• Inventory management
– Types of inventories
– Ordering cost (Microsoft Excel and calculation)
– Carrying cost (Microsoft Excel and calculation)
– Economic order quantity (Microsoft Excel and calculation)

CHAPTER THREE
Supply chain operations
• Goals of operation
– Quality control
– Flexible manufacturing
– Process Optimization
• Lean operations
– Kanban system
– Central lessons of lean
– Lean inventory
– Theory of constraint
• Quality management
– Total Quality Management (TQM)
– ISO:9000 Family of standards
– Six Sigma
– Lean and Six Sigma tool kit
– 5 WHYs problem-solving methods.
– 5s workplace improvement methods
– Fishbone/Ishikawa problem-solving methods.
• Forecasting.
– Types of forecasting (Microsoft Excel)
– Naïve, Cumulative, Moving average, and Exponential methods (Microsoft Excel)
– Forecasting accuracy (Microsoft Excel)

CHAPTER FOUR
Supply, Manufacturing, and Distribution Planning
• Manufacturing strategy.
– Level strategy
– Chase strategy
– Peak demand strategy
– Make-to-Stock.
– Make-to-Order.
• Sourcing
– Single and multiple sourcing strategies
– Purchasing
– Procurement
– Supplier management
– Kraljic portfolio management
– Supplier segmentation
– Procure-to-pay
– Reverse auction
– Sustainable procurement
– Risks management

Download the course outline here