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Integrating Purchasing, Logistics and Inventory with Suppliers

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Seminar #4262
July 27 - 29, 2011
Minneapolis, MN

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Overview

Eliminating functional and organizational silos is an imperative if organizations are to achieve the high levels of customer satisfaction and reduced cost and improved performance demanded in today's marketplace. Eliminating these silos requires creative integration by supply management of the many critical functions that react with both suppliers and customers.

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Who Should Attend

Supply chain professionals involved in purchasing, logistics, operations and inventory activities who want to learn how better supply chain integration can significantly improve to the organization’s performance.

You Will Learn...
  • How to implement cost reduction strategies and develop spend profiles
  • Methods to improve supplier performance, manage supply risk, and reduce cost, inventory and cycle time
  • Supplier Relationship Management
  • How to avoid common errors in reengineering
  • Understand the demand for organizational renewal
  • Review common logistic and inventory techniques
  • Find where the real savings are and how to stop wasting your time on where the savings are not
  • The stages of integration and where to start the process
  • Identifying and managing supply risk
  • The steps in developing the Integration Strategy
You Will Earn...

21.00 continuing education hours
Course Outline
  1. Integration: supply chain management, the demand for organizational renewal, and defining supply chain management
  2. Integration framework, benefits and barriers, the stages of integration
  3. Where to start the integration process, get rid of the "Cs", aggregating the spend, developing the spend profile, defining commodity/service groupings
  4. Integration requires alliances, defining the alliance, the alliance process, success factors and barriers to alliances
  5. The need for process change, reengineering, changes in supply chain responsibilities
  6. The challenges of integration
  7. Common logistic processes and improvement initiatives, expressive bidding, the outsourcing issue
  8. Identifying and managing supply risk, developing the integration strategy, and the commodity/service strategic plan

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Hilton Garden Inn - Minneapolis Downtown
1101 4th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55404
612/339-6633

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