At the end of the course participants will be familiar with techniques by which materials and components can be moved through the manufacturing process at high velocity without compromising service, quality of financial objectives covering:

• The essentials of material management
• The relationships between materials management and corporate strategy
• The key techniques supporting materials management
• Best practice in materials management
• Concepts or MRP, JIT and zero inventory
• Developing partnerships

Materials Management as Part of Business Strategy

• Overview of business planning process
• Business forecasting
• Sales and operations planning
• Demand management
• Overview of demand forecasting

Supplier Management

• Benefits of partnerships
• Limitations to supplier development
• Purchasing in a JIT environment

Materials Planning System

• Master production scheduling
• Bill of materials
• Lead times
• Rough cut capacity planning
• Materials requirements planning
• Capacity requirements planning

Improving Supply Chain Flows

• Visibility in the supply chain
• Reducing manufacturing inventories
• “Lean” manufacturing systems
• Financial systems to support “lean” manufacturing
• JIT

Costumer Linking

• Visibility of costumer data
• Vendor managed replenishment
• Costumer managed replenishment

improving Competitiveness

• Time compression
• Mass customization
• Organizational requirements for improving materials
• Management Performance

This course is designed for personal working in, alongside, or offering non-logistics support to materials management.