Optimal supply chain efficiency is crucial to your clients. And your resource planning and management is likely getting more complex.
To help streamline operations we dive into demand management and forecasting, material requirements and resource planning, production scheduling, and managing inventory.
A global value chain (GVC) is a complex system to integrate and operationalize. Here your team can learn about identifying strategic partners, make vs. buy decisioning, evaluation and QA strategies and maintaining ethical practices throughout your supply chain.
With your supply chain likely involving global partners your team should be skilled in understanding cultural business differences.
Through the lens of global organizational case studies, we delve into how cultures, politics and economics play an important role in your team’s relationships. And how creating multi-national businesses change your operations, supply chain, marketing and finance.
With your supply chain likely involving global partners your team should be skilled in understanding cultural business differences.
Through a well-ordered approach they’ll evaluate the use of motivation and communication to drive improved group dynamics and the impact of leading effectively.
Steering change in complex workplaces can be challenging for any team member. Your current and future leaders can benefit from systematic approaches to driving adoption of organizational change.
Here they’ll work through the intricacies of creating a change management plan, taking into account human dynamics, models, principles and values that can help to lead the process of change.
To help optimize your team’s interdepartmental relationships we’ll evaluate what drives businesses and initiatives forward through fundamental management theories. Additionally, we’ll cover resource & project management, planning and leadership.
With the speed at which technology is impacting supply chains it’s likely your team is ramping up their tech skills or looking for talent with tech skills. Skills like data mining, business intelligence and managing big data could be beneficial to develop on your team.
Operations and supply chains are becoming increasingly more reliant on advanced technology. Giving your team the basic understanding of how these tools function can help them understand their potential impact on your business. Our courses are designed to develop and train machine learning models and apply linear regression to make predictions. Additionally, your team will work with control systems related to applications such as robotics, natural language processing, data analytics and artificial intelligence.
Supply chains especially can become targets of cyber attackers. It only take an infiltration in one part of the supply chain to potentially compromise an entire network. Through hands-on exercises and projects, they’ll create, plan, implement and monitor security solutions to protect critical data, networks and prevent future attacks. Your team can also explore the design of an organization’s security systems procedures, standards, protocols and policies, as well as how to ensure operational security follows standards, policies and laws.
With marketing technology and demand generation being a large driver of business for sales, your team might benefit from understanding marketing fundamentals like consumer intent, creating promotions, developing advertising campaigns and tracking key performance indicators (KPIs). Through fascinating case studies, interactive tutorials and real-world projects, our programs can help your team understand this key revenue driver.
Communications: Your team’s ability to communicate is critical to your operations team working with internal stakeholders and your supply chain working with external partners. Building your team’s confidence, clarity and credibility takes practice. Could your team use help honing their skills in professional speaking, developing written and verbal communications, creating presentations and providing management support.
Your operations and supply chain team is eager to learn new ways of improving and approaching their work. When they’re given the opportunity to stretch past their set job role, creative thinking will likely follow. Infusing learning pathways into their succession plan can help foster new ways of creating efficiencies and encourage next-level thinking that can lead to brilliant ideas within your team and organization.
Fine-tuned problem-solving skills could be the change you’re looking for on your operations and supply chain team. Identifying problems before they begin and addressing them in a timely and efficient manner could improve your customer experience as well as your organization.
What do you get when you combine increased problem-solving skills and innovative thinking? Most likely better business efficiency. Operational efficiency isn't far behind when your business can ask hard questions, anticipate and tackle areas to improve and break through barriers.
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