HR Pulse

“Supply chain and logistics optimization is neither easy nor cheap but it is the biggest opportunity for most companies to significantly reduce their cost and improve their performance. For most supply chain and logistics operations there is an opportunity to reduce cost by 10% to 40% by making better decisions”

In today’s increasingly volatile competitive environment, implementing a long-term strategy for competitive advantage has become next to impossible for organisations. This stand-alone course introduces delegates to techniques from around Africa that uncover supply chain productivity inefficiencies and then create processes to build towards supply chain optimisation.

Course Content

• Streamlining all your supply chain functions to collaborate for effective cost reduction
• Demand planning & forecasting strategies and tools to gain competitive advantage in the most cost-effective way
  
• Examining best practices around Africa in inventory, service and cost optimisation
  
• Hands-on learning of cost reduction opportunities in distribution and warehousing
  
• Improving service levels, reliability and risk mitigation with distribution network optimisation
  
• Evaluating the role of transport in supply chain management for profitable growth

Course Outcomes

• Benchmark against best practices on measuring supply chain performance in Africa
• Develop efficient supply chain strategies to minimise downtime and loss of production
  
• Improve lead time management
  
• Optimize your inventory management and distribution network; and minimize hidden costs
  
• Prevent excessive downtime by minimising lead time
  
• Various practical case studies from around Africa
• Critical concepts will be analysed which can be considered in developing an effective supply chain.