| Module Title |
Module Content |
Business Benefits |
Duration |
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Product Lifecycle Management
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- History and definition of PLM
- Product lifecycles and data sets
- The PLM process
- Organisation structures for PLM
- Integration with project management and ERP
- Integration with customers and suppliers
- Case studies
- Implementing PLM
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- Understand how PLM relates to your business processes
- Identify the key benefits of PLM to your business
- Contribute to planning and delivering a PLM implementation
- Understand the key features of effective PLM systems
- Recognise the need for effective integration with other systems
|
2 days
|
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Principles and Concepts of ERP/MRPII
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- Overview of ERP/MRPII
- Sales & Operations Planning
- Demand Management
- Master Production Scheduling
- Material Requirements Planning
- Batch sizes & Lead Times
- Record Accuracy
- Inventory Management
- Shop Floor Control
- Supply Chain Management
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- Understand how ERP/MRPII systems work
- See how they can help or harm business performance
- Identify how you can improve your company performance
- Achieve rapid bottom line benefits from simple “quick wins”
- Identify how to get the benefit from ERP/MRPII
|
4 days
|
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Developing and Managing Forecasts
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- What the forecast is for
- Types of Forecast
- Forecasting Techniques
- Demand analysis matrix
- Role of Planning Bills
- Forecasting in different business types
- Measuring accuracy
- Forecast outputs
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- Learn how to forecast
— even if your business can't
- Understand the variables and business drivers in the market
- How, when and where to apply the techniques
- How forecasting can save you money and improve performance
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1 day
|
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Tools for Managing Inventory
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- Demand analysis
- Reorder point calculations
- Safety stock calculations
- Ordering cycles
- Inventory analysis
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- Understand how demand characteristics affect your business
- Use statistical techniques to set the “right” inventory and save money
- Keep control without spending a fortune
|
1 day
|
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Sales & Operations Planning
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- Product families and groupings
- Planning horizons
- Criticality
- Scenario Planning
- Performance measures
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- Gain value by linking business planning with production planning
- Reduce medium and long term risk
- Improve costs and cash flow
- Make better strategic decisions
|
1 day
|
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Production Planning and Control
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- The planning and control framework
- The Master Production Schedule (“MPS”)
- Capacity planning and management
- Material Requirements Planning (“MRP”)
- Controlling batch sizes and lead times
- Shop floor scheduling and control
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- Understand how production planning and control works
- See how effective planning and control improves business performance
- Understand how your role fits into the bigger picture
- Understand the key tools and techniques
- Develop your planning and control skills
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2 days
|
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Managing MRP Parameters
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- Order policies
- Lead times
- Achieving due dates
- Change and impact analysis
- Performance measures
|
- Control parameters and data
- Align responsibility and accountability
- Get accurate and reliable information from your system
- Zap the cost of chaos
|
2 days
|
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Structuring & Using Bills of Material & Routings
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- Structuring for planning
- Phantom items
- Modular bills
- Bills vs. routes
- Scrap and yield factors
- Change control
- Structuring routings
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- Improve the accuracy and usefulness of your BoMs
- Use BoMs to eliminate waste of materials and time
- Manage engineering change more effectively
- Better routings and shorter lead times
|
1 day
|
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Shop Floor Control
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- Production order control
- Material reservations, issues and returns
- Yields and scrap
- Variances and analysis
- Managing product change
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- Improve control of work-in-progress
- Improve feedback from the shop floor into planning
- Track material usage more effectively
- Manage product changes efficiently
|
1 day
|
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Supplier Management
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- Strategic purchasing
- Portfolio analysis
- Relationship mapping
- Purchase price cost analysis
- Source planning and supply chain analysis
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- Learn how to manage suppliers, not be managed by them
- Manage cost not price and save money
- Purchasing as a profit centre
— increase delivery value
- Developing the right strategy
- Managing risk and vulnerability
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2 days
|
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Managing the Master Schedule
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- Capacity constrained schedules
- Simulation and impact analysis
- Achieving schedule stability
- Scheduling and promise dates
- Effective management of schedule changes
- Performance measures
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- Learn how to achieve 100% on time delivery
- Manage available capacity better and reduce production costs
- Stabilise the supply chain and get rid of “just in case” inventory
- Understand how “realism” can be a profit earner
|
2 days
|
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Managing Record Accuracy
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- Understanding record types, origins and uses
- Control groups and processes
- Mechanism for improvement
- Tracking
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- Understand the cost of inaccuracy and the drivers
- The cost/benefit of getting it right
- Learn how to get and keep control of record accuracy
- Identify savings in reduced cost and risk
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1 day
|
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Warehouse & Distribution Operations
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- How to establish the business needs that drive operations
- Handling systems and equipment
- Delivery systems
- Systems for different business needs
- Measures of supply chain performance
- Case study
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- Choose the most suitable techniques and equipment for your business
- Improve productivity
- Improve customer service
- Reduce inventory
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1 day
|
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Customer Relationship Management
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- Understanding customer needs
- Building and sustaining relationships
- Communications tools
- Being pro-active - removing obstacles
- The role of IT
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- Improve customer service
- Reduce the cost of handling problems
- Turn complaints into opportunities
- Solve customers' problems
- Retain profitable customers
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2 days
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