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Interactive Training for Government AgenciesSupply Chain Management Training
Learn Fundamental Functions of SCM to Increase Efficiency
This Supply Chain Management Seminar helps participants meet management’s profit objectives. This onsite training helps provide supply chain management techniques to direct and coordinate staff in every aspect of purchasing operations. Participants discover new supply chain management approaches, gain the latest information on Material Requirements Planning (MRP), and Resource Requirements Planning, and much more.
Use effective supply chain management to improve profitability and market potential.
Supply chain management has become tremendously important in an increasingly competitive marketplace. The term “supply chain” refers to the entire network of companies working together to design, produce, deliver and service products. While many companies focus on manufacturing and quality improvements within their organization, the best companies extend their efforts beyond their organization to encompass the entire supply chain.
This interactive training session encompasses the key elements of supply chain management and provides a basis for developing a strong supply chain management function that can improve profits and market potential.
Not only will you get your supply chain management efforts aligned with corporate strategies, you can make certain that improvements in supply chain efforts are paying off.
Our expert facilitators will tailor the program to the specifics of your situation and the participants.
Most companies struggle with even the basics of balancing supply and demand in their supply chains. For example, supply chain professionals know sales and operations planning (S&OP) is important to your company. However, few companies can actually say they have a strong S&OP process in their business. This interactive training session can change that.
Participants will be introduced to the fundamental and basic aspects of supply chain management, including basic resource planning systems, the interrelationships between purchasing, vendor selection, sources of supply, and the role of technology. Everyone will leave with a better understanding of an integrated approach to planning, acquisition, flow and distribution from raw materials to finished products.
Who Should Attend
This interactive training is designed for: senior level managers, materials managers, warehouse professionals, inventory control specialist, purchasing professionals, finance and accounting specialist, and transportation and traffic specialists. Plus, your vendors and suppliers can also benefit from the interactive discussions throughout this training session and you are welcome to invite them to your session.
Training Benefits
- Apply supply chain system best practices
- Discover how to increase purchasing efficiency through better inventory management
- Produce an effective supply management program
- Produce accurate inventory data
- Evaluate customer service levels
- Discover new supply chain management technology
- Recognize how to substitute information for inventory
- Design effective teamwork strategies with vendors and suppliers
- Acquire the knowledge to collaborate with suppliers for better service
- Determine how to reduce lead times coming and going
- Recognize how to implement continuous improvement throughout the supply chain process
Overview of Concepts and Deliverables Provided
- Recognize Customer Service, Warehousing and Distribution
- Planning, Performance measurements and data accuracy
- Apply Inventory Management
- Distinguish Procurement, Purchasing and supplier management
- Recognize Demand Management, S&OP (sales and operations planning) and Production planning
- Discover Forecast planning, execution and tracking
- Acquire the knowledge to master Production Schedule and Rough-Cut capacity planning
- Identify Capacity Planning, Resource Requirements Planning, Capacity Requirements Planning, Scheduling
- Recognize Material Requirements Planning (MRP), Bill of Material (BOM), and Role of the Planner
- Carry out Quality Management and Problem solving
- Assess Preventive Maintenance
To receive more information about this training call toll free at 877-385-5515.
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Physical Inventory and Cycle Counting Workshop
Learn Best Practices for Managing Inventories and Cycle Counts
In this Inventory Control and Cycle Counting Workshop you learn to maintain inventory counts that increase purchasing and production efficiency. We have designed this training to help you Organize, Regulate and Tighten Inventory Control to overcome your toughest inventory warehousing challenges.
Most U.S. companies have approximately 30% of their assets tied up in consumable inventory. Without proper methods in place to account for the movement and sales, or use of these goods, write-offs against the bottom line profits will occur. This seminar will help you analyze current inventory practices and develop a plan for the taking of physical inventories and cycle counts of consumable products (not fixed assets).
Participants in this training session learn to apply best practices to better manage the inventory control and cycle counting processes. They learn to identify and correct problem areas in your inventory management systems and set up cycle counts to achieve over 95% accuracy in your inventory records.
Plus, participants discover training techniques to better to train the cycle counting team, keep paperwork under control, and timesaving tips to get the job done in less time!
Accurate Inventory Records are critical to production scheduling, sales, forecasting, purchasing, and maintaining high levels of productivity. In fact, in today’s business environment, inventory control can be the key difference between a positive cash flow and red ink.
Let’s face it; conducting an error-free physical inventory is no easy task. Our Inventory Control Professionals help you avoid inventory inaccuracies that can lead to back orders, overstocks, stockpiled obsolete items, higher costs, and other inventory headaches.
Our expert facilitators will tailor the program to the specifics of your situation and the participants.
This highly interactive seminar includes hands-on exercises and provides participants with valuable information and practical tools to improve inventory control and cycle counting processes. By the end of this training, participants will be able to immediately apply the strategies and techniques they have learned.
Participants will be introduced to the fundamental and basic aspects of supply chain management, including basic resource planning systems, the interrelationships between purchasing, vendor selection, sources of supply, and the role of technology. Everyone will leave with a better understanding of an integrated approach to planning, acquisition, flow and distribution from raw materials to finished products.
Who Should Attend
This interactive training is designed for: Accounting personnel, business owners, storeroom and warehouse workers, inventory personnel and anyone who is responsible for or takes part in the taking of physical inventories.
Training Benefits
- Apply techniques to actually improve speed and accuracy when counting inventory
- Distinguish updated time-saving techniques, formulas and checklists
- Verify that proper inventory controls and cycle counting best practices are used
- Carry out smooth and accurate inventories
- Evaluate inventory record accuracy
- Recognize and eliminate inventory write-offs and shortages
Overview of Concepts and Deliverables Provided
- Recognize why inventory record accuracy is important
- Identify four advantages of having an accurate inventory system
- Recognize how to reduce forecasting errors
- Evaluate your inventory system strengths and weaknesses
- Identify four ways to calculate inventory accuracy
- Recall five areas that create the biggest problem in a physical count
- Discover how to establish an inventory planning and preparation timetable
- Design a simple and consistent location system
- Determine how to increase count efficiency
- Recognize the physical inventory
- Procedure
- Preparation
- Training employees on how to do counts the “right” way
- Organizing the count
- Identify ten problems with annual physical inventories and how to avoid them
- Determine how to motivate your counters and workers
- Explore using count teams for speed and accuracy
- Propose coping with ongoing transactions
- Recognize how to conduct an ABC analysis of your inventory
- Distinguish four phases to implement cycle counting
- Determine how to analyze inventory and cycle counting results and set realistic goals
- Determine how to tighten record-keeping procedures and ensure other departments use them
- Organize tracking of corrective action activities
To receive more information about this training call toll free at 877-385-5515.
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Fundamentals of Purchasing
Learn the Latest Purchasing Methods and Strategies to Improve the Quality and Reduce Costs
Who Should Attend
Buyers in service, manufacturing, health care, government, and office purchasing. Whether you are a new purchasing professional or a veteran, this course will be valued for its strong emphasis on real world practices and corporate teamwork.
Training Benefits
- Apply negotiation techniques to compete in a global environment
- Recall how to develop and send your RFQ
- Recognize specialized purchasing instruments and contracting methods
- Evaluate and choose your suppliers to reduce costs and improve quality
- Build knowledge of legal and ethical requirements and issues
- Interpret the tools for enhancing material and product flow
Overview of Concepts and Deliverables
- Translate the purchasing cycle and its relationship to the supply chain
- Distinguish ethical and legal aspects of purchasing law
- Recognize how to select and qualify suppliers
- Apply the concepts of inventory turns and JIT to purchasing
- Analyze how the Uniform Commercial Code relates to purchasing
- Recall the basic parts of a contract
- Recognize how blanket orders/blanket purchasing agreements are used
- Produce savvy negotiating skills
- Identify how E-procurement can save you money
- Evaluate the logistics of international purchasing
- Determine how to calculate price analysis to assess competitive market pricing
- Determine how to calculate cost analysis to better negotiate with a supplier
- Detect the keys used to measure buyer’s performance and make purchasing a profit center
- Acquire a working knowledge of how to use cross-functional teams to create a positive impact on purchasing
To receive more information about this training call toll free at 877-385-5515.
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Negotiation Skills for Purchasing Agents
Learn How to Negotiate the Best Possible Deals and Get Better Prices, Service and Quality
This negotiation skills training will equip purchasing agents with powerful tools and strategies for purchasing negotiations. This course benefits both those experienced in purchasing negotiations and those relatively new to the profession.
The interactive format of this program maximizes audience participation and feedback. The training includes many exercises and activities giving participants the opportunity to practice the skills and techniques used by professional negotiators. Each participant will receive a workbook reference including checklists and guides to prepare for and execute negotiations effectively.
Alliance tailors each course to the client’s needs and specific learning objectives. This includes designing the program around multi-national and multicultural issues. Therefore, we will want you to speak with the selected facilitator to refine the course learning objectives and any organizational issues that may impact the training. This conversation will also help them tailor the examples, cases, exercises and other interactive aspects of the program to your organization. We want the training to be relevant to your learners and provide a real-world learning experience.
Who Should Attend
Buyers in service, manufacturing, health care, government and office purchasing. Whether you are a new purchasing professional or a veteran, this course will be valued for its strong emphasis on real world practices and corporate teamwork.
Training Benefits
- Build negotiation planning skills
- Evaluate the key negotiating strategies
- Integrate the participants in challenging negotiations based on real-life situations
- Apply the tools needed to maintain strong working relationships with vendors and suppliers
- Propose strategies for dealing with internal customers
Overview of Concepts and Deliverables Provided
- Identify what you can negotiate
- Recognize the stages of negotiation
- Prepare high quality questions
- Acquire the skills to negotiate with suppliers
- Prepare your plan of negotiation
- Recognize the settlement range
- Build your skills of diffusing conflict
- Recognize the “dirty words” of negotiation
- Prepare to address those with whom you have differences
- Acquire the ability to use persuasion to get what you want
- Analyze the first offer dilemma
- Acquire the ability make effective concessions
- Acquire the ability to break deadlocks
- Identify how to deal with savvy suppliers
- Acquire the ability to deflect the bully’s attack
To receive more information about this training call toll free at 877-385-5515.
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Purchasing & Inventory Control Training
Whether you are in procurement, sourcing, or supply chain management, the purchasing and supply chain management seminars in this section will help you add value to the organization and improve bottom-line results.
The responsibilities for purchasing today extend far beyond the purchase order. A purchasing professional requires a significant amount of knowledge and expertise in the areas of finance, engineering, manufacturing, and qualiy. Chief executive officers, chief financial officers, and controllers recognize the importance of an effective purchasing department. This is due to the fact that within organizations, purchases account for over 60 percent of the organization’s costs.
Purchased cost and service savings are meaningless. However, if the associated quality, timeliness, reliability, and documentation received from the supplier are below standard, best practice training is essential for purchasing to be able to evaluate the ways of providing value. Then they can develop plans and approaches to implement more effective purchasing processes and procedures in the organization.
Online Purchasing and Inventory Control Training Programs
| Fundamentals of Purchasing |  |
| Negotiation Skills for Purchasing Agents | |
| Physical Inventory and Cycle Counting Workshop | |
| Supply Chain Management Training | |
Online Purchasing Training Courses
| The 1099 MISC Course |  |
| The Basics of Sales and Use Tax |
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