Seminars
and Training
Seminars are designed for purchasing, materials, and manufacturing personnel.
Purchasing personnel include purchasing managers,
buyers, planners, agents and administrative assistants. Seminars are customized
to meet
our clients individual requirements.
All seminars given on-site at your company. Seminars are typically from
one day to three days for 10 to 30 people and
combine lecture, discussion and hands-on exercises.
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Stimulating Presentations -- On-site instructors are experts at
translating concepts into easy practices. Diagrams and clear-cut visual
aids are used. You get realistic solutions from people with hands-on
experience.
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Realistic Exercises -- Apply the newly learned
skills immediately as part of the seminar.
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Coach and Discussion -- Get your questions
answered. Share your point of view. We guide and
support each participant in achieving concrete improvements or action plans.
Topics
Basics in Supply Management
Fundamentals of Purchasing and Supply Management 101
How to do 50% more work in 50% less Time:
Time Management for Buyers
Leadership Skills: Increasing your influence and transforming
organizations
Cost and Value
Power
Negotiations Skills
Lower Costs Now!
Cost
Reduction Planning for Successful Professionals
Supply Market
Strategies
Win-Win Negotiations
Conducting Reverse Auctions
Quality
Defect Free Materials without Inspecting
Real
Quality -- Competition to Cooperation
Statistical Process Control for
Dummies
Performance Metrics for
Suppliers
Real Quality -- Fix the Real Problem
Selecting Quality Suppliers
Inventory
Inventory Replenishment Basics
How to Improve Inventory Buying: Drive down inventory fast!
(…Without shutting down the line)
VMI -- Vendor Managed inventory
Fix
Your Inventory System First
Strategies to Reduce Lead-Time
Dynamically
Optimize Inventory
Sourcing
Global Outsourcing and Sourcing: How to do it
Right
Developing a World-Class Supply Base
Use
Marketing Methods to Beef Up Sourcing (Get
best cost, best delivery and best quality)
From Sourcing Strategies to Results!
How to Outsource Successfully in 5 Easy Steps
Professional RFQ Development and Analysis
Advanced Contract Negotiations
Lean Systems
Lean Production System Design
Value Stream Mapping
Balanced and Level Production
Kanban Systems and Suppliers
Kaizen and Continuous
Improvement
Advanced Concepts in Lean Production
Course
Descriptions
Fundamentals of Purchasing and Supply Management 101
Hands-on basics in
purchasing for all buyers! This systematic seminar provides the confidence
needed to succeed and advance in today’s business environment. We’ll help you
find solutions to such problems as getting the best prices, selecting the right
suppliers, managing your relationship with supplier representatives and
negotiating with self-assurance. As a Buyer, you have tremendous power. We’ll
help you understand the basic tenants of agency, law and responsibilities that
come with that power.
How
will you benefit?
Save
money through better purchasing techniques
Improve quality of supplier services through effective communication and
planning
Discover how to select and qualify extraordinary suppliers
Understand your legal role as a purchasing manager
What you will learn in one day:
What
is a contract? How do you negotiate great contracts?
What
key responsibilities come with the power of agency?
What
are good ethics and how to foster cooperative supplier relationships?
How to
structure terms of purchase to your advantage?
What
are the legal responsibilities of a buyer to the employer?
How to
ensure quality from suppliers?
The
difference between firm fixed price, cost-plus and market adjustable prices
Course outline:
1.
Dynamics of the
changing role in Supply Management.
2.
Responsibilities of a
purchasing agent
3.
Developing a business
agreement
4.
Creating a supply base
– select your supplier’s don’t let them select you
5.
Certifying sources of
supply – assuring high quality
6.
Managing logistics and
freight
7.
Continuous cost
reduction
8.
Taking advantage of
E-commerce
9.
Negotiation tactics
and style
10.
Purchasing ethics and
law
11.
Purchasing for lean
manufacturers
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How to do 50% more work in
50% less Time: Time Management for Buyers
Our most popular seminar!
A much sought after and desired course by buyers and planners who can't seem to
find the time to get everything done and get it done at a quality level with
which they feel satisfied. Do you have a bottomless in-basket? Learn
how to to eliminate tasks that add little or no value and to focus on work that
will be sure to get you a raise. Everyone can benefit from this course.
How will you benefit?
Feel less stressed and more in control
Know how to conquer time wasters
Anticipate problems and prevent bottlenecks
Feel like you've accomplished something every day
Understand how to get to get things done that lead to
personal satisfaction
Resolve conflicts when other people's goals conflict
with yours
Discover how to get caught-up and stay caught up
Find your optimum work style
Have the time to do those really important tasks
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Leadership Skills:
Increasing your influence and transforming organizations
Leadership skills are
key to career advancement in business.
Learn 10 practical and proven
techniques on influencing people and creating personal power. We carefully
explore the concepts of power and influence to offer a variety of perspectives
on effective leadership behavior. How do charismatic leaders create their
influence and power? What are the guidelines for successfully transforming
organizations? What are the characteristics of truly effective leadership?
Learn the answers to these and more in this dynamic seminar.
How you will benefit
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Influence people
without creating fear,
resistance or resentment
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Know how to
Increase personal power
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Learn key
management skills that can lead to career advancement
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Develop your
inherent leadership capacity
Learn:
The
secret of balancing likeability and results
18
ways leaders promote self-esteem within a group
The
difference between the hard and soft part of leadership
How to
lessen or eliminate resistance to change
The
link between communication and your ability to lead
Characteristics of great leaders
How to
really influence people to your way of thinking
The
difference between management and leadership
All
about the “soft” and the “hard” parts of leadership
10
specific techniques that will improve your competence as a leader
A
proven framework for conflict resolution
How to
use small group dynamics to your advantage
Secrets of the most powerful leaders
The 5
centers of power
Who should attend?
This seminar is
for managers, directors and all who strive to be tomorrows leaders.
Where is the
seminar conducted?
On-site as scheduled
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Defect Free Materials without
Inspecting
Can you really get defect free material without inspecting?
Some say inspections are critical to preventing defective material from getting
into finished goods. They are right. Yet some companies have virtually defect free material receipts without inspectors.
Why? And how can you eliminate inspections while improving supplier quality?
This is an introductory course geared for buyers, purchasing managers, quality
managers and production people.
What you will learn:
What is good and what is bad about inspection
How inspection can actually lead to greater quality
problems and why
How to better use time spent inspecting, rejecting and
reworking
The importance of supplier development to high quality
incoming materials
How to aligning design and supplier capabilities
The key to defect free product
How to include sourcing as part of the design and quality process
Who should inspect and the real value of inspection
Suppliers as production centers in the extended
enterprise
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Real Quality -- Competition to
Cooperation
Would you like to learn why competition often leads to poor
quality? It may seem obvious that cooperation with a supplier can lead to
better quality... so how can you use cooperation effectively? Do you believe that
competition is the only way to get better prices? Does it come down to
better quality or better prices? This course proposes an alternative.
Get better prices and better quality through managed cooperation with suppliers. Find
out how, why and easy steps that lead to real quality.
Who should attend?
Buyers, planners, purchasing managers, commodity managers, quality staff and
everyone involved in establishing supplier relationships.
Learn:
Benefits of changing the relationship from competitive
to cooperative
How to achieve high quality without sacrificing best
costs
How to establish a constructive working relationship
The power of developing supplier improvement plans that work
Integrating suppliers into a value-adding supply chain
The important links between supplier relationship and
quality improvements.
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Statistical Process Control for
Dummies
Don't
fall asleep yet!
This may be the most important course you take. You'll get excited when you
understand the true root cause of quality, cost and delivery problems. Old
formulas don’t work! The results achieved in Japan and Lean manufacturing are
based on Dr. Deming’s application of statistical techniques. Now we make these
techniques simple and easy to understand.
How you will benefit
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Know how to
determine whether a supplier is capable of delivering required quality
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Confidence in
selecting high quality suppliers
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Drive your
organization to virtually defect free materials
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Improve
quality and productivity using statistical analysis
Learn:
Dr.
Deming’s basic principles on how to use statistical analysis
When
is a process predictable? And when will it yield defect free results?
The
difference between special and common causes of variation
How to
apply these methods to every day quality and cost problems
Product design and statistical control integrating the entire system
To
focus on value and customer satisfaction
How to
interpret statistical data using simple visual tools
Process (machine) stability analysis
What
is a sigma? What is six-sigma? Why is it important?
Who should attend?
Specially designed
for managers, planners, buyers, and workforce people. This complex subject is
made simple enough for everyone. Quality personnel and manufacturing
engineers also benefit from this practical approach to using Statistical Process
Control
Where is the seminar
conducted?
On-site as scheduled
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Performance
Metrics for
Suppliers
How well are you suppliers performing? Do they know? Or do they
think that since they fix every problem as it comes up they are great suppliers?
Would it surprise your to know that most suppliers who don't get performance
measurements regularly think they are doing a superb job? Think of
yourself as the Captain of a ship. How can you get to where you want to go
without measurements that tell you where you are (how effective are your
suppliers) and where you want to go (supplier goals). Design and
implement the right metrics with the right suppliers. As a bonus we
discuss how to deploy metrics within a web-based technology or using virtually
no resources.
Who should attend:
Buyers, planners, purchasing managers,
supply managers, commodity managers, supplier quality engineers, quality
inspectors and everyone who wants to understand root cause analysis methods
How will you benefit?
Clear understanding of how well suppliers are
performing
Quantify problems and reward superior performance
Measure to improve not to pile up paper
Understand how to set up a measurement system with
little or no work on your part
Get supplier action plans that lead to improved
performance
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Real Quality -- Fix
the Real Problem
Do you have quality problems that you can't seem to get
a supplier to fix? Do you spend more time than you'd like sending back
defective material? Do you have low cost suppliers you may have to leave
because they just can't get the quality right? This course will help you
understand and fix the real problem once and final:
Who should attend:
Great for buyers, planners, purchasing managers,
supply managers, commodity managers, supplier quality engineers, quality
inspectors and everyone who wants to understand root cause analysis methods
How will you benefit?
Develop skills that allow you to diagnose the real
problem
Know how to tell the difference between the root
problem and symptoms
Eliminate the stress of dealing with the same quality
issue over and over
Get more time to spend on productive ventures -- such
as saving your company money
Discover how the right approach may be better than a
good solution for the wrong problem
Gain people's respect by helping them solve difficult
problems
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Selecting Quality
Suppliers
So.. you have and RFQ from a new supplier with a great
price? How do you know the supplier will provide good quality material?
Provide good service? Give your company the attention it deserves?
Or raise the price the first chance they get? Or might the price be a
mistake? And even if the supplier is one you currently engage in business,
how do you know it is the right supplier for this particular part or material?
Learn the answers to these and more in the course on how to select quality
suppliers.:
Who should attend:
Supply Management Team, supplier quality engineers,
quality inspectors, new product developers and everyone who wants to understand
what makes a supplier a good supplier.
How will you benefit?
know how to identify core competencies
Have confidence the selected supplier will deliver low
price and high quality
Understand the financial and business ramifications of
changing
Discover when it may be better not to change
Avoid the costly mistake of selecting a poor quality
supplier
Improve your supply system with high quality
businesses
Learn how a high quality producer can usually sell at
the lowest market cost
No longer be fooled by low cost quotes at the expense
of quality
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Manufacturing quality into a product
Power Negotiations
Skills
"You don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate."
Learn how to take's Karass's theory and Harvard's "win-win" negotiating
one step further. Use your personal influence to persuade without
offending. Understand the connections between power, influence and
negotiations. We present research on negotiations, sources of power and an
overview of practical applications. Everyone can benefit from this
course. Topics include:
Types of power and influence
Win-win vs. positional negotiation
Persuasion, aspirations and perceptions
Negotiating tactics
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Lower Costs
Now!
Did you know that a
5% cost savings on a single cost driver can save
more than 20% on hundreds of different parts? Discover how to
target these costs and develop simple plans to reduce them. How do market
trends affect commodity costs? What about custom materials?
Learn this and much more. This course is designed for supply
management staff and new product design engineers interested in reducing
costs that are too high. Topics include:
How focusing on the right costs adds up to big
savings
Cross-functional approaches to reducing costs
Reduce cost, not value
Supply market strategies
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Cost Reduction
Planning for Successful Professionals
Are most of your cost
savings achieved when you place the next order? Do you know how much you save?
Does your boss? How would you like to learn to leverage your power as a buyer?
In one example, a commodity manager increased savings from about $1-million per
year to $2.2 million using our planning methods. Want to know how?
How you will benefit
·
Know
how to
increase your total cost reductions
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Less stress by
knowing "how to" achieve those needed savings
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Measure
progress toward your cost goals
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Develop skills
that allow you to focus on the best opportunities
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Know how to
approach custom material differently than commodity items
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Bring back
tools that help you plan cost reduction activities
What you learn:
Easily
identify the low risk-high value opportunities
12 Key
cost reduction strategies
How to
develop commodity plans and estimate potential savings
Understanding how to take advantage of market prices fluctuations
Taking
advantage of market types and supplier pricing strategies
When
to use price or cost analysis
What
is the total cost of ownership?
Benefit from use of price and cost curves
Use
web-based information to get quick access to market price changes
Who should attend?
Supply Management
Team, new product developers and everyone who wants to achieve greater better
costs for their companies.
Where is the seminar
conducted?
On-site as scheduled
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Supply Market
Strategies
Are you frustrated because your suppliers will not cooperate on getting to low
low costs? Could you be in the wrong "supply market?" Every supplier
has a unique selling proposition. Only those with a "lowest cost" selling
proposition will willing cooperate on getting to lowest cost. But are you
dealing with suppliers who's unique selling proposition is something else?
Want to learn how to remedy these and many other problems using proven marketing
strategies for Buyers? That's right! Buyers can use the same
marketing techniques as sellers have been using for years. Find out how in
this course.
Who should attend:
Supply Management Team, new product developers and
everyone one who is responsible for developing supply strategies for their
companies.
How will you benefit?
Learn proven marketing techniques that work to your
advantage as a supply professional
Select the best set of suppliers for that new product
Get rid of useless frustrations from purchasing in the
wrong supply markets
Know how to identify ideal supply markets
Get great cooperation from all you sources of supply
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Win-Win Negotiations
How can I benefit from a supplier winning a negotiation -- even if I won too?
Isn't it really about getting a better price no matter what? Learn how you
can get an even better price by sharing benefits with a supply partner.
And understand how suppliers who loose eventually get even:
Who should attend:
Supply Management Team, and everyone one involved in
negotiating supply agreements for their companies.
How will you benefit?
Develop great supplier relationships with low cost
parts
Negotiate agreements without giving in
Be more relaxed and less stressed over negotiations
Work together to create mutually satisfying options
Approach negotiations from a Total Cost perspective
Know how to separate people from the problem
Motivate people to offer better terms or lower costs
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Conducting Reverse Auctions
When are reverse auctions the best
way to get lower costs. Why do you sometimes not get the savings you
expect after an auction? How does it work? Should I use an expensive
web-based platform or develop my own? What is involved in conducting one?
This course explores all these issues an more.
Who should attend:
Supply Management Team, IT application engineers and
everyone one wanting to conduct a reverse auction for the first time.
How will you benefit?
Understand why they can lead to significantly lower
costs
Know what materials and parts are best to put into an
auction
Understand your options for web-based tools
Know how to set up fair terms for conducting an
auction
Select the best suppliers to invite
Minimize the impact on your current supply stream
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Inventory Replenishment
Basics
Ask yourself, how do you place your inventory orders? What
triggers a replenishment request? How do you decide how much to order?
Learn a new simpler economic order quantity (EOQ) formula. Do you really
need to place orders so early that you will reschedule them an average of seven
times! What are the alternatives and when to you use them?
Designed for buyers, planners, master schedulers, production supervisors and any
supply management staff involved in replenishing inventory. Topics
include:
Three basic triggers: MRP, Supplier Scheduling,
Inventory Pull
How to decide which type, when to use and how to
transition
How much to order -- a new simpler EOQ
Adjusting replenishment parameters: The key to
it all
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How to Improve
Inventory Buying:
Drive down
inventory fast! (…Without shutting down the line)
Ask yourself, how do you
place your inventory orders? What triggers a replenishment request? How do you
decide how much to order? Learn a new simpler economic order quantity (EOQ)
formula. Do you really need to place orders so early that you will reschedule
them an average of seven times! What are the alternatives and when to you use
them?
How you will benefit
·
Use the right
replenishment method – know your options
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Confidence in
developing a predictable supply stream
·
Focus on
synchronizing deliveries to production demands
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Become skilled
in using proven tactics to prevent shortages
Learn:
Three
basic strategies: MRP, Supplier Scheduling, Inventory Pull
What
are the benefits of each inventory replenishment method?
How to
decide which one is right for you?
When
to use one strategy over another
Methods for improving material flow for each strategy
How
much to order -- a new simpler EOQ for inventory purchasing
Let
suppliers manage replenishment (VMI)
When
to use blanket orders, purchase agreements and release orders
Understand the value stream and effects of sub-tire suppliers
Adjusting replenishment
parameters: The key to it all
Who should attend?
Designed for
buyers, planners, master schedulers, production supervisors and any supply
management staff involved in replenishing inventory.
Where is the
seminar conducted?
On-site as scheduled
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VMI -- Vendor managed inventory
Whether you are in a manufacturing or service
environment, why not let your suppliers manage inventory? Take a load off!
Manage suppliers not inventory. After all, you are a supply manager, not
an inventory manager! Designed for buyers, planners, master
schedulers, production supervisors and any supply management staff involved in
managing inventory.
What will be covered?
Many methods to choose from
How to get your suppliers on-board and excited
How to manage suppliers managing your inventory
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Fix Your Inventory
System First
Production line down again because your
inventory count was wrong? or delivery is late? This seminar
suggests ways to fix the problems quickly, then considers alternate
methods and processes that have permanently fixed these problems for other
companies. Simple concepts that provide a clear understanding on how
to solve common inventory problems such as inventory count errors.
What will be covered? What are the benefits?
Understand why counts are bound to be incorrect
traditional batch inventory methods
Learn 4 key ways to temporarily fix your inventory
problems -- giving you time to work on the right solution
Learn how to implement 3 alternative inventory
replenishment systems
-- Kanban for lean manufacturing cells
-- Dynamic inventory replenishment
-- VMI (Vendor managed inventory) and
Supplier Scheduling
Learn how "value stream mapping" can help you
determine which is best for you
Who should attend?
Buyers,
planners, supply managers, purchasing managers, materials managers, floor
supervisors, and everyone involved in handling, ordering or managing inventory.
Strategies to Reduce Lead-Time
A ten week lead-time! But you need it in two? Now you're in trouble.
Does this seem like a common experience? Why are lead-times sometimes so
long? What can you do to protect yourself and your company against
excessively long lead-times? How is cycle time different from lead-time?
Can cycle-time be reduced as well? Learn the answer to these questions and
more in this dynamic workshop that explores the components of lead-times and
shows how how to reduce them.
Who should attend:
Supply Management Team, new product developers and
everyone one who wants shorter lead-times for their purchased materials.
How will you benefit?
Stop paying high premiums and overnight freight costs
because you can't get the part in time
Relieve stress caused by people that want parts you
can't get in time
Have more time to spend on reducing cost, managing
suppliers or developing relationships
Know how to reduce lead-time even on custom parts
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Dynamically Optimize Inventory
Too much inventory? Too
little inventory? It can sometimes seem like feast or famine. How do
you manage when there are thousands of parts? In this seminar you will
learn the two key factors that drive the need for inventory. You will be
taught what inventory really is and why some is necessary. You will also
become skilled at minimizing it without running out.
Who should attend:
Supply Management Team, the materials group,
production personnel and
everyone one involved in using or replenishing inventory.
How will you benefit?
Reduce active inventory
Eliminate or reduce production line outages
Know how to determine the right time to reorder
Understand how to calculate the right quantity to
reorder (not the outdated EOQ formula)
Recognize the value of guidelines for a balanced
approach to replenishing inventory
Appreciate the inventory transformation process
Learn a simple way to regulate the flow of inventory
to avoid excess and shortages
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Developing a World-Class Supply Base
How many suppliers do you have? How many should
you have? How do you know if they are the best, or the lowest cost?
How do you benchmark there performance? Find the answers to these and more
in this course is specially designed for commodity managers,
sourcing managers, new product design engineers, and purchasing agents. Topics
include:
Dividing your supply base into basic supply markets
Identifying capabilities and business fit within
supply markets
Predicting price and quality performance based on capacity and
capabilities
How to improve an existing supply base quickly
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Use Marketing Methods to Beef Up Sourcing - Get best
cost, best delivery and best quality
-Commodity mangers instinctively understand the supply base is
divided into core supply markets. How do you best develop supply marketing
plans that result in great cost savings for high value commodities? What
are proven marketing strategies that you can apply now to you core supply
markets? This advanced marketing seminar contains great ideas for commodity
managers, sourcing managers, and purchasing agents with 5 -10 years sourcing
experience. Topics
include:
The four "C"s of basic supply market strategies
Aligning supply market strategies with suppliers
market strategi4es
Promoting new products into your supply base
Developing supply strategies that achieve the results
you want
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From
Sourcing Strategies to Results!
-Learn how to develop tactical action plans based on your
sourcing strategies. How many of us develop good strategies that end
up in the bottom of our drawers? This seminar shows you how to turn your
strategies to daily actions plans. So achieve your goals! Meet those
cost reduction numbers! Reduce your supply base! Topics
include:
Developing action plans from strategies
Modifying strategies and action plans based on
feedback
How to make your strategies even more effective
How to accommodate crises in your action plans
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How to Outsource Successfully in 5 Easy Steps
Outsourcing may mean outsourcing manufacturing, purchasing,
materials, logistics and to some extend product development. How to
make this process easy? Outsourcing requires a cross-functional team.
This seminar is for all members of the outsourcing team. While the steps
to outsource are easy, there are many possible pitfalls. We review the key
steps and common pitfalls to avoid. Topics
include:
What you
will learn:
Not all
products or subassemblies are appropriate for outsourcing. Which ones are?
How to
select the best supply partners
How to
negotiate the lowest costs
How to
compose and RFQ package that assures a lowest accurate cost
How to
develop a successful transition plan
How to
assure the same or better quality
Who
should attend?
Everyone
involved in outsourcing including purchasing, materials, manufacturing and
quality engineers.
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Professional RFQ
Development and Analysis
It isn't just "asking", it's "how you ask!" Especially with a "Request"
For Quotation. Should you request cost-plus, firm fixed or market
adjustable price? When are each appropriate? Learn how to compose RFQs to receive low costs
and accurate bids. What is the best way to select suppliers? Is it
best to send to many suppliers, or just a few? And when you receive the
bids... how do you know who to award? Awarding to the overall lowest
price may not be the best way. Find out why.
Who should attend:
Supply Management Team, and everyone one involved in
sending request for quotations.
How will you benefit?
Know how seasoned professionals solicit RFQs that get
low cost high quality materials
No longer award a bid to later find out the supplier
can't perform
Be familiar with key questions to ask
Understand how to generate clear and simple request
that get what you want
Have access to analysis tools and web-based
transmission methods
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Advanced Contract Negotiations
If you've ever negotiated contracts or long term supply agreements, you know how
adversarial the process can be. Suppose you could learn a technique
to do it in a friendly way that gets you all you want an often more? This
seminar teaches some unique methods for negotiating short and long contracts.
It also reviews what sections and specific language should be in a contract and
under what circumstances.
Who should attend:
Supply Management Team, and everyone one involved in
negotiating contracts or long term supply agreements.
How will you benefit?
Know how to compose contracts that are thorough and
complete
Know when to have a contract at all, and when a single
page contract is appropriate
Get contracts done more quickly
Have contracts that protect your rights and important
business points
Possess the skills to negotiate difficult or
controversial subjects
Completed contracts will be realistic and reflect the
real relationship
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Global Outsourcing and
Sourcing: How to do it Right
Global sourcing means
reviewing all supply market options. Companies sometimes erroneously believe it
means selecting an offshore supplier where labor is low so manufacturing will be
less expensive. Manufacturing costs are complex in today’s business
environment. Many factors affect cost including the leading three: capital,
processes and labor. Considering only the cost of labor can lead to disaster!
Learn the most efficient
and cost effective way to achieve high quality products and services through
global manufacturing.
How
you will benefit
·
Avoid
lost revenue
due to late delivery or poor quality products
·
Increase
product cost reductions
without jeopardizing supplier relationships
·
Determine what
should be sourced locally vs. offshore with total cost analysis tools
·
Structure a
successful search for global sources
·
Understand
critical success factors and feel confident of success
·
Make yourself
comfortable with sourcing in a global environment
Learn how to…
Decide
where to source or outsource globally
Make
global sourcing easy and low risk
Estimate “total cost” and make cost reductions easy
Multiply cost savings by managing the right sub-tier suppliers
Anticipate problems and mitigate them (common pitfalls to avoid!)
Identify critical decision factors in global sourcing selections
Develop relationships with offshore suppliers
Bridge
the cultural divide
Evaluate your options in providing support for offshore manufacturing
Negotiate differently depending on where you source globally
Compose effective outsource RFQ packages to assure lowest accurate cost
Consider many sourcing tools including reverse auctions
Assure the same or
better product quality
Which employees should attend?
This seminar is for
all members of the outsourcing team. These include purchasing, buyers,
materials, finance, planners, commodity managers, supply managers, manufacturing
and quality engineers.
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Lean
Production System Design
Lean systems design is the most effective way to dramatically improve
your manufacturing system. Learn how to achieve balanced and level production
in any manufacturing environment. Lean-flow manufacturing is suited to any
production environment whether high-volume, low-volume, high-mix or
low-variety. Lean techniques revolutionized Japanese and American manufacturing
systems. Testimonials claim millions in savings, dramatic increases in quality
and remarkable heightening of customer satisfaction. This seminar lightly
touches on every aspect of lean production design and how your firm can benefit.
How you benefit
·
Reduce
inventory by
creating a lean production flow
·
Improve
profits by
eliminating waste in labor and materials
·
Improve
customer satisfaction from a more agile and predictable production system
·
Understand the
basic principles of lean manufacturing
·
Know how to
make your operations competitive with off-shore lower labor
Learn:
Dr.
Deming's basic principles of system design
How
the Toyoda model for manufacturing systems is replacing mass production
Core
principles of balanced and level production
How to
synchronize manufacturing processes
Basic
principles and philosophies of lean-flow design
The
“7” steps of Lean
Why
Kanban: the importance of a rigorous supply infrastructure
How to
manage time in manufacturing systems
The benefits of value
stream mapping and Kaizen
Why pay for waste? On almost every project, non-value-added
activities cause wasted time, money, and valuable resources. Studies have shown
that in many firms, only one hour in eight of team member’s time is
actually spent creating value for their project’s customers. The Lean Project
Management workshop presents a toolbox of waste-slashing methods that you
can use tomorrow to increase the speed and efficiency of your project teams.
The twelve “lean methods” described in this course enable dramatic reductions in
project cycle time while freeing up valuable resources for additional project
work. Firms that have embraced these practical tools have reported up to 50
percent reduction in project schedules, dramatic improvements in gross margin,
and enhanced customer satisfaction. This lively, hands-on workshop covers all
aspects of lean project management, from the initial definition of project
requirements to the successful close-out of customer contracts
Which employees should attend?
This seminar is
for all members of your manufacturing team. These include Vice Presidents of
Manufacturing, directors, managers, supervisors, planners, manufacturing worker
force, supply managers, manufacturing and quality engineers
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Value Stream Mapping
Are you convinced there is a lot of waste in your operation but not sure how to
target and eliminate it, or do you believe your operation is very efficient with
little room for improvement? Either way, you will be amazed to discover the
additional waste uncovered by using value stream mapping (VSM) tools and
techniques.
You can increase profits by eliminating waste, delay and non-value adding
practices. VSM is a set of proven techniques for charting processes that
identify "value", critical practices and eliminate excess costs and inventory.
How you benefit
·
Eliminate
more waste and associated costs
·
Make process
changes based on data rather than guess work
·
Transform
“workforce resistance” into endorsement
·
Make needed
changes without those “unintended” consequences
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Understand how
to maximize value in any process
·
Get the tools
to understand your value stream
·
Increase
flexibility and efficiency of your manufacturing operations
Learn how to:
Map
processes in ways that easily identify value-adding steps
Redesign a process to produce more value with fewer steps and less work
Identify and eliminating delays
Use
VSM tools to design and implement a “lean” process
Hone
in on large segments of unproductive activities that result in lower profits
Improve any new product introduction process
Become aware of
possible problems from sub-optimization
“We had already implemented some lean manufacturing practices
before we learned about VSM. Once we mastered the basic techniques, VSM led to
dramatic improvements in our lean-flow. We recommend VSM before redesigning for
lean or any Kaizen event.”
Says one national
manufacturer.
Where do you begin your journey to Lean? VSM is an essential tool
for any manufacturer wanting to achieve world-class status, whether just
beginning or well into the lean process. The seminar includes small case
studies and hands-on work with value stream maps to make everyone comfortable
with VSM. It is ideal for all wanting to accurately identify sources of waste
in the company value streams.
Who should attend?
This seminar is for all
members of your manufacturing team. These include Vice Presidents, Directors,
Managers, supervisors, planners, manufacturing workers, supply managers,
manufacturing and quality engineers.
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Balanced and Level Production
One of the most common
complaints is that a company has too much of the wrong inventory and too little
of the products its customers are demanding. Rescheduling never adds value to
your manufacturing or supply process. Discover how to make the quantity and mix
of products demanded by the final customer in a level and balanced manner.
Learn:
Setting the pace:
let the customer drive replenishment requests (heijunka box)
Basic concepts
for leveling and stabilizing production systems
How MRP is great
for planning but poor for execution
Use of internal
kanban to drive production
Dramatic effect
of using “pull” on manufacturing cycle time
Steps to reduce
“setup” time
Developing
self-directed work teams
Tailor the
process and design for the unique character of your company
Who
should attend?
Designed especially for supply managers, materials managers, buyers, planners,
and commodity managers but everyone including production and supplier quality
personnel who want more time and less inventory can benefit as well
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Kanban Systems and Suppliers
Why are kanban system so effective? A "pull" | 