Product Details
Topics Covered
- Supply base
- Procurement
- Supply chain management processes
- Supply chain management processes
- Supplier appraisal process
- Performance measurement
- Relationship management
- Supply chain economics
- Globalization
- Regulatory demands
- Commodity pricing
- Customer service
- Lean manufacturing
- Supplier selection criteria
- Quality management techniques
- Supply chain risk
- Disruption
- Logistics
- Offshoring
- Transportation service companies
- Transportation methods
- Warehouses
- Supply chain management trends
Key Features
- Mobile-friendly
- Audio-enabled
- Badge and credit-awarding
- Fully accessible
- Games & Flashcards
- Expert-supported
- Video content
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Course Description
Learning Outcomes
- Define supply chain management and understand its strategic role
- Explain the goals of effective procurement and supply chain management
- Learn the eight guidelines for successful supply chain management
- Discuss how organizations assess their supply base
- Summarize how organizations appraise individual suppliers
- Understand the importance of communication in managing a complex supply chain
- Compare common relationship problems between organizations in a supply chain
- Discuss the basics of economic drivers in managing suppliers
- Analyze globalization, regulatory demands, and changes in commodity pricing
- Describe how suppliers can impact customer service
- Discuss Lean manufacturing and its role in supply chain management
- Appraise the various supplier selection criteria and explain the supplier appraisal process
- Understand quality measurements and compare basic quality management techniques
- Understand potential supply chain disruptions and strategize ways to reduce supply chain risk
- Define logistics and describe the role it plays in supply chain management
- Assess the strengths and weaknesses of offshoring and of using different transportation methods
- Distinguish between the four types of transportation service companies
- Distinguish between different types of warehouses
- Assess the major trends shaping supply chain management
Notes
This course has an "Ask the Expert" feature, which submits your questions directly to an expert in the field you are studying. Questions are answered as quickly as possible and usually within 24 hours.
As an Accredited Provider, MindEdge offers for its learning events that comply with the Continuing Education and Training Standard.
Learners must achieve an average test score of at least 70% to meet the minimum successful completion requirement and qualify to receive credit. Learners will have three attempts at all graded assessments.
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Information in this course has been taken from A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, (® Guide) - Sixth Edition, Project Management Institute Inc., 2017.
The following list outlines the you will earn for completing this course, based on the certifications you have.