About the Event

The output of any process can be measured in terms of Quality, Cost and Delivery. A supply chain is obviously critical in meeting delivery targets but is also fundamental to achieving the overall cost requirement and can impact on quality is some unexpected ways. Therefore, the design and architecture of the overall supply chain will be critical to both the supply chain’s success and each individual company’s longevity and sustainability in that supply chain.

The aim of the workshop is to:

• Explore the reasons why an organisation would want to look its supply chain – what are the benefits and advantages from doing so
• Identify barriers and obstacles to efforts to improve a supply chain, and explore how these might be overcome. These may include organisational resistance, financial implications as well as more mundane practical problems
• Look at how a supply chain might be mapped to provide insight into opportunities
• The sorts of improvement activities potentially required within an organisation to align with the overall supply chain’s needs

The workshop consists of exercises and simulations to demonstrate both some of the issues and the benefits likely to exist. Using Lean concepts and principles, ways of improving a supply chain to make it more integrated and effective are explored in the context of the specifics and business drivers of the process industries.

Our workshop leader has a near twenty years’ experience of adapting and implementing Lean into the process industries, so attendees will benefit from their insight.

Who is this course for:

This workshop will be of interest to those wanting to address their company’s supply chain competitiveness and the site’s position within it. This may include:

• Site leadership team members exploring improvement opportunities in the supply chain
• Business leaders and senior managers
• Department managers:
  • Logistics & supply chain
  • Production
  • Purchasing
• Business improvement/ continuous improvement personnel
• Cross functional improvement teams