Global Supply Chains

Module 1: Managing responsive, customer-driven supply chains

• Understanding the basic principles of good Supply Chain Management and how this can yield competitive advantages.
• Identifying the opportunities for creating fleeter-footed businesses capable of competing in markets that are highly sensitive to delivery times.
• Learn how to synchronise the supply chain.
• Learn the cost of serving clients and how to measure supply chain results.
• Identify the main hurdles to supply chain integration and how to overcome them.

Module 2: Managing the global supply chain

This module covers management tools, and knowledge and ideas on:

• New approaches to co-ordinating a company's global supply chain.
• Practices for meeting the logistic challenges posed by a global supply chain. 
• Planning of the strategic roles played by each factory in an international network.
• Designing the architecture of a company's global operations network.
• Increasing the contribution made by global operations to a company's competitiveness.

Module 3: Managing supplier relationships and outsourcing

• Learning new purchasing approaches from the supply chain management perspective.
• Learn how to forge links with suppliers.
• Learn how to harmonise incentives with the various actors in the supply chain.
• Learn the advantages and risks of logistic outsourcing.
• Learn the steps required to ensure successful outsourcing.

The target audience for this programme is: directors and executives in the logistics, supply chain, operations, distribution, marketing, and customer service fields.

Participants taking any of these modules will:

• Take part in a forum providing information on the field and discussion with experts and managers from other companies.
• Learn how leading companies use logistic and supply chain capabilities to become more competitive. Greater competitiveness can be gained through: a more responsive supply chain (dealt with in the first module), more efficient management of a global supply chain (discussed in the second module), and/or more strategic management of company relations (an issue covered in the third module).

The training is imparted through participatory learning and group work. This ensures that participants get the opportunity to put forward their views and discuss key concepts of supply chain management.

Date	Tuition Eur.	Location
28 and 29 May, 2008	1.850¤	Barcelona

Cristina Giménez and Ricardo Ernst.