Supply Chain Executive Program
There is a growing understanding of the strategic importance of supply chain management.
Achieving a step change improvement in your organisation's supply chain management practices can have a significant impact on competitiveness through enhanced customer service and flexibility, while also reducing costs through more effectively managing inventory.
This program is designed for senior executives seeking to understand how to design contemporary high-performance supply chains. It will provide executives with a holistic model that addresses infrastructure, processes, technology and people issues.
The program is relevant for executives from product, service, government or not-for-profit organisations.
Participants will receive field-tested frameworks and diagnostics to take back and apply inside their own organisation.
Organisations are encouraged to send small, multi-functional teams to internalise key learnings within your organisation, and optimise the impact of this initiative.
Logistics and the Supply Chain
Logistics and the supply chain are now widely recognised as a powerful source of competitive advantage. This session will examine the ways in which organisations can develop supply chain strategies that deliver more customer value, at less cost.
'Dynamic' Supply Chain Alignment
Many of today's supply chain problems are due to mis-alignment with customers. This session explores how customers want to buy your products and services, and how to use this information to reverse-engineer your internal operations.
Continuous Replenishment Supply Chain Partnerships
This session covers the Continuous Replenishment configuration, designed specifically to service brand loyal customers who value relationships. Models outline how to identify customers who value this level of collaboration.
Lean and Agile Supply Chains
The search for efficient solutions intensify when low cost is the primary priority. This session explores the origins of 'lean thinking' and implementation strategies. However, for organisations faced with volatile markets and demanding customers, then the need for responsiveness is paramount. This session also addresses how to create fast-reacting or agile supply chains through developing sufficient 'capacity' ahead of time to absorb both expected and unexpected volatility in demand patterns.
Third Party Logistics
As supply chains are stretched to work with regional suppliers and customers, companies are increasingly working with external parties that provide additional capabilities, seamlessly. This session discusses how third party logistics providers have established credible offerings and how these changes have led to new business models.
Resolving Complexity through Network Optimisation
The Internet Age has driven an exponential increase in complexity within the supply chain. This session explores how Network Optimisation modelling can resolve complexity and make business more manageable.
Sales & Operations Planning
Sales & Operations Planning is at the heart of contemporary supply chains. This session will demonstrate how forecasts of demand in unpredictable markets are taken and systematically converted into agreed demand plans that everyone inside the enterprise lives by, day-to-day.
The Impact of Pricing Regimes
This session explores how organisations such as Wal-Mart have used pricing to create new perceptions of value. Participants will understand how pricing can change customer's buying values.
Supply Chain Performance Measures
This session provides a framework of key performance indicators which can be used to measure a multi-faceted supply chain network. It also covers potential pitfalls when managers set and monitor KPIs which actually driving mis-alignment with customers and suppliers.
Supply Chains in China and India
This session will focus on the new (supply chain) business models that have emerged from Asia in recent years, led by companies such as Li & Fung. While China is building all the necessary supply chain infrastructural assets, India is building all the virtual (IT) 'highways'.
Managing Risk
The turbulence and uncertainty that increasingly impacts supply chains is now a concern for all businesses. This session highlights the ways in which organisations can better manage and mitigate risk across the supply chain network.
Supply Chain Sustainability Forum
The sustainability of enterprise supply chains is now in question as consumers seek to favour those corporations that demonstrate corporate social responsibility in how they treat the environment and their workers. This forum will discuss issues of sustainability within the supply chain.
The Supply Chain Executive Program will be of particular interest to senior managers involved in the supply chain management process. The program will be most effective when organisations nominate several candidates from the Supply Chain Management function, along with senior managers from related functions.
- Learn to design contemporary high-performance supply chains
- Apply field-tested frameworks and diagnostics to your organisation
- Increase your organisations competitiveness through improved supply chain management practices
- Reduce costs by effectively managing inventory
- Mitigate and manage risk across the supply chain network
John Gattorna has been actively involved in all the development phases in the supply chain field since 1975. He has worked in various capacities including consulting/advisory (Managing Partner, Accenture Supply Chain ANZ and S Asia); teacher and researcher (currently holds visiting professorships at Australian and UK/European universities); 'thought-leader' and speaker on the international conference circuit. He is the author of several books and his latest book, Living Supply Chains is creating intense interest around the world for its innovative insights.
Martin Christopher is Professor of Marketing and Logistics at Cranfield School of Management (UK), and directs the Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management, the largest activity of its type in Europe. His work in the field of logistics and supply chain management has gained international recognition. He has published widely and his recent books include Logistics and Supply Chain Management and Marketing Logistics.
Dates
25- 27 February 2009, non residential.
Fees
$4,620 (inc GST)
Fees include tuition, program materials and catering.
Venues
MGSM Executive Hotel & Conference Centre
Macquarie Park, North Ryde, Sydney.
Program Coordinator
Phone: + 61 2 9850 9016
Fax: +61 2 9850 8630
Email: Public-Programs@mgsm.edu.au