Certificate Course on Managing
Materials Effectively
(Four Days)
Course Objectives
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Understand Strategic & Commercial significance of
effective Material Management and develop insights regarding their new role.
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Learn CAPEX Project Viability Assessment skills &
tools, to improve spend productivity to be able to compete.
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Create awareness of acute need to improve spend
productivity and to expose participants to their new role in the fiercely
competitive market place.
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Introduce them to what Best Practice companies are
following, how and why.
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Expand the vision of their own supply chain and what
role they need to play as a chain participant, through a case study of Global
Supply Chain.
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Introduce the concepts of Strategic Sourcing and
expose participants to spreadsheet tools enabling them to “ WORK SMART”
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Build negotiating/decision-making skills through a
simulated, complex, buyer-seller negotiating situation.
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Make them “think future” from Best Practices to NEXT Practices.
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Course Coverage
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Customer orientation: needs
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Customer – centric Purchasing & Supply Management
(PSM)
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PSM : Best practices
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Global Supply Chain: Case study
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Assessing Total Spend and strategies for reducing it
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Assessing Financial Viability of CAPEX items
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Negotiating Win – Win: A Simulation Exercise
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Reducing RM/WIP Inventory: tools & techniques
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Bull Whip effect: A Computer Simulation
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Managing high FG Variety with high Customer Service;
Case Study
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Course Benefits
The participants will:
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Be able to experience how different management
concepts are integrated and applied to reduce costs, improve profitability
simultaneously improving customer service.
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Develop insights through various exercises designed
to simulate real life scenarios.
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Develop deeper understanding of their role, the
impact of their decisions on performance of the entire supply chain, thereby
enhancing professional competence.
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Benefits to Your Organization
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Inventory Reduction without compromising on Customer
service
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Profitability improvement through superior decision
making
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Development of Managers with a sense of Total View of
Supply Chain
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Training Methodology
The Faculty shall be sharing his experience in application
of new concepts. It includes
Exercises, Case Study, Using Smart spreadsheet tools, and a Simulation Game,
all of which help participants learn faster and better. It thus influences
the way participants THINK, and creates most lasting learning.
The stress is on
inter-disciplinary approach for managerial decision-making. Participants will
have an opportunity to discuss the materials management practices in their
organizations. They will also have an
opportunity to solve the problems faced by them in the materials management
field.
At the Industry visit: presentations will be made by the
company’s team as how materials management is successfully adapted by them.
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For Whom
The course is structured to serve the interest of executives
in senior positions in Manufacturing Industry and Service Organisations
involved in Materials functions.
In particular, the course will be of special interest to: Commercial
Executives: Materials Managers; Controllers of Purchase and Stores;
Industrial Purchase and Stores; Industrial Engineers; Maintenance Engineers;
Production Controllers; Financial / Cost Accountants; Warehousing Officers;
Systems Analysts and MIS Managers.
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Delegate Fee
The delegate fee is
Rs 16,000/- per participant. (Companies nominating 3 or more participants
will be eligible for a discount of 10% on the delegate fee).
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Faculty
Mr Sudhir Patwardhan is a B Tech (IIT-Kanpur) and MS (USA)
in 1971. He has over 35 years of experience in Industry and is practicing
Management Consultant.
Mr Sudhir Patwardhan worked in a large US firm manufacturing
gas turbine engines, before returning to Mumbai to join Tata Consulting
Engineers. He worked with the TATA’s on Hydro, Thermal and Nuclear Power
Project Management. He joined Godrej Soaps Ltd in 1973 where he worked for 23
years, reaching the position of Senior Vice President (Manufacturing) and
later Managing Director of Godrej’s French Joint venture: Godrej – KIS.
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