Supply Chain Planning and Strategy

CSCA01.1 Supply Chain Overview CSCA01.1.1 Supply chain essentials

• Supply Chains
• Flows in a Supply Chain

CSCA01.1.2 Financial performance

• The Objective of a Supply Chain
• Financial Measures
• Linking Financial Measures to Supply Chain Operation Measures
• Managing the cash flow
• Cash to cash cycle time

CSCA01.1.3 Strategic fit

• Competitive strategy and supply chain strategy
• Framework to attain strategic fit
• Logistical drivers
• Cross Functional Drivers
• Beyond the walls of our own organization

CSCA01.2 Strategy CSCA01.2.1 Introduction to strategy

• Competitive strategy
• Competitive advantage

CSCA01.2.2 Consistency between competitive strategy and functional strategies

• Typical Functional Strategies
• Supply chain strategy

CSCA01.2.3 Aligning processes with strategy

• Push/Pull Processes

CSCA01.3 Framework for discussion CSCA01.3.1 Sources of costs and revenues

• Sources of the costs across the supply chain
• Drivers of supply chain performance

CSCA01.3.2 Logistic decisions

• Facilities decisions
• Inventory decisions
• Transportation decisions

CSCA01.3.3 Cross functional decisions

• Information decisions
• Sourcing decisions
• Pricing decisions

CSCA01.4 Fundamental Issues CSCA01.4.1 Introduction to Sales and Operations Planning

• Demand management issues
• Sales and Operations Planning

CSCA01.4.2 Forecasting

• Introduction to forecasting
• Forecasting example - Data inputs
• Forecasting example - Quantitative models
• Forecast performance

CSCA01.4.3 Introduction to Supply Management

• Supply management terms
• Supply management issues