Course Outline

Integrated Global Supply Chain and Logistics Management

• Introduction to supply chain and logistics management
• Current supply chain strategies
• Customer service and logistics
• Channels of distribution
• Planning framework for logistics
• Logistics management and organisation

Inventory Management Supply Chains

• Inventory flows and supply chains
• Forms of inventory and their role
• Inventory as buffer islands in a supply stream
• Demand amplification and distortion
• Setting and measuring the effectiveness of inventory
• Planning and forecasting
• Collaborative approaches to optimisation

Outsourcing Trends and Best Practice

• Outsourcing operations and services
• Value added services
• Key drivers for outsourcing
• The selection process
• Outsourcing management
• Managing the 3PL relationship
• Detailed metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Freight Transport Industry - Introduction and Development

• Economics, environment and policy
  • Effect of trade deregulation on industrial development
  • Global sourcing, industry relocation and its impact on transportation requirement
  • Globalisation and energy efficiency
  • The environment and CO2 emissions
  • The World Trade Organisation process and quota regimes
• Legislation, authorities and the regulatory environment
• Issues

Freight Transport Industry - Road, Rail, Air and Sea Transport

• Transport characteristics
  • Road
  • Rail
  • Air
  • Sea
• Pressures on the industry
  • Social
  • Security
  • Environmental
• Forecasting transportation demand
• Port and terminal capacity
• Current and future trends

Warehouse and Distribution Centre Design

• Outsourcing of warehouse operations
• Warehouse location planning
• Operations - order picking
• Operations - packaging
• Warehouse design and fittings
  • Storage systems –manual and automated
  • Combined storage and order fulfilment systems
  • Sortation systems
  • Warehouse layouts and material flow
  • Control systems
• The green influence
  • Building and utilities
  • Storage
  • Material handling
  • Monitoring overall energy and carbon usage
  • Distribution transport
  • Waste management
• e-fulfillment (B2C)

Key Issues for Global Supply Chain and Logistics Management

• Developments impacting on the supply chain
• Logistics processes
• Logistics network planning
• Inventory and the integrated supply chain
  • Problems with traditional approaches to inventory planning
  • New inventory requirements
  • The lead-time gap
  • Inventory and time
  • Inventory planning for manufacturing
  • Inventory planning for retailing
  • Best practice
  • Reverse logistics

Information Communications Technology and Supply Chains

• Supply chain and IT strategy
• The role of supply chain systems in business change
• Transaction systems
• Planning systems
• Data analysis and reporting
• ASP, outsourcing and security
• Transport management systems
• Supply co-ordination and warehousing systems
• Implementation
• IT and process mapping tool

Performance Measurement and Improvement - Optimisation Strategies

• Background to logistics and supply chain management
• Modelling techniques in logistics and supply chain management
• Review of logistics and supply chain performance indicators
• Analytical performance and benchmarking techniques
• Current issues in supply chain performance and optimisation