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Executive Short Course - Lean Supply Chain Management

A hands-on two days executive course to help you on your journey to reduce value chain costs and increase competitiveness.

As consumers tighten their belts and become more discerning, time is right for renewed attention to supply chain costs and opportunities for value enhancement. The Lean Enterprise Research Centre is a world authority in lean thinking. We have worked with a wide range of leading firms in different sectors to deliver huge improvements.

Drawing from industry's best practice, this course will:

Introduce you to ‘lean thinking’ and how it delivers business improvements
Introduce the key principles of world class supply chain management and provide you with great examples of how companies such as Toyota and Tesco are identifying value and waste in their supply chains
Show you how to apply tried and tested diagnostic tools and how to map your supply chain for opportunities and how sustainable competitive advantage can be delivered
Explain collaboration in supply chains, supplier association models and how to work with trading partners to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of your supply chain
Inspire and enable you to start your "learning by doing" journey

Dates

Check the Registration Form 2011, or visit our online shop.

Facilitators

TBA

Course Contents

DAY 1: INTRO TO LEAN THINKING AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Topics Covered

Introduction
Principles of Lean Thinking
Systems thinking and whole chain approach
Lean Chain Tools and Techniques
Deployment of diagnostic tools (eg value steam mapping)
Lean in different sectors (eg retail and automotive examples)

Activities, Exercises, etc

Value enhancement vs. waste elimination
JIT (stickle-brick) game
Value exercise (eg car dealer exercise)
Case studies (eg Toyota and Tesco Lean Journey)

Day 2

Topics Covered

Value Chain Improvement
Introducing extended value stream mapping concept and practical aspects
Chain collaboration and supplier association models
Lessons learnt
Course Summary

Activities, Exercises, etc

Supply chain red-blue game
10 days value chain analysis approach and “do it yourself”.
Drawing up current state and future state maps for your supply chain
How to apply lean thinking in your environment and how to analyse your value chain to create flow
Beer game and demand distortion
Information systems and information flows in supply chains

Benefits

By completion of this course you will have a high level appreciation of Lean Thinking and its application in the supply chain. You will also be able to understand principles of world-class manufacturing, collaborative supply chain management and best practice performance measurement.
Critically you will see:

How effective delivery of customer value can only result from whole chain thinking.
Focus on ‘silo’ efficiency invariably delivers sub-optimal performance and is rarely sustainable.
How lean tools and techniques can help you achieve whole chain efficiency and effectiveness

Course convenors will draw on their experience of lean application in different sectors to provide you with a hands-on learning experience.