Supply Chain Management ON DEMAND
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4.0 Credits
Member Price $116.00
Non-Member Price $133.00
Overview
The quality of an organization’s supply chain will drive its overall success. In this course, we cover the components of a supply chain management system, and how it can be configured to enhance overall effectiveness. The topics in this supply chain management course include inventory reduction concepts, risk reduction, supplier ranking systems, quality management, and several related software applications.
Highlights
Supply chain management. Global sourcing issues. Supplier rewards. The bullwhip effect. Supply chain financing. Types of quality. The cost of quality. Quality assurance. Quality metrics. Types of transport. Warehouses. Reverse logistics. Software applications.
Prerequisites
None.
Designed For
CEOs, CFOs, COOs, and other accounting managers.
Objectives
Identify the different levels of supplier. Specify the advantages of maintaining a smaller supplier base. Describe the issues related to global sourcing. Identify how a countertrade agreement works. Specify how to develop deeper supplier relations. Identify how to run a collaborative negotiation process. Recall the characteristics of a lead supplier. Specify how the bullwhip effect occurs. Describe what is needed to run automatic supplier replenishments. Specify the different types of supply chain risk mitigation techniques. Recall how customers perceive quality in a product or service. Specify the characteristics of kaizen. Identify the 14 points for management promulgated by William Edwards Deming. Recall which types of waste would be eliminated with a lean practices initiative. Recall the contents of a service-level agreement. Specify what a supplier performance index tracks. Identify the characteristics of the different forms of logistics transport. Recall the characteristics of intermodal transportation.
Preparation
None.
Notice
None.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Steven Bragg, Western CPE
Steven M. Bragg, CPA, is a full-time book and course author who has written more than 70 business books. He provides Western CPE with self-study courses in the areas of accounting and finance, with an emphasis on the practical application of accounting standards and management techniques. A sampling of his courses include the The New Controller Guidebook, The GAAP Guidebook, Accountants’ Guidebook, and Closing the Books: An Accountant’s Guide. He also manages the Accounting Best Practices podcast.
Steven has been the CFO or controller of both public and private companies and has been a consulting manager with Ernst & Young and an auditor with Deloitte & Touche. He holds an MBA from Babson College, a Master of Finance from Bentley College, and a BA from the University of Maine (summa cum laude).
Non-Member Price $133.00
Member Price $116.00