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The Course

Supply Management is the process of managing relationships, information, and materials flows across organisational boundaries to deliver enhanced customer service and economic value. Supply managers aim towards synchronizing and amalgamating these flows through the implementation of a specific ordering of work activities across time and place, with a beginning, an end, clearly identified inputs and outputs, as well as a structure for action.

Project Management is also a structured process of managing work flow in a specific order across time and place. The close similarities between these two processes provide a firm foundation to expand the supply manager’s world view to adopt project management principles and techniques. This course focuses on integrating project management principles into the supply management process. In this course, you will learn how project management concepts could be applied to enhance supply management. You will also gain an understanding of the tools and techniques used to initiate, execute, manage and control a project. Possible initiatives for the improvement of supply management through the application of project management concepts will be emphasised.

The Goals

Following completion of this course, delegates will learn how to:

Organize, plan, launch, track, and close a project
Create a clear project objective and work breakdown structure
Master project planning, execution and control skills
Identify the skills necessary to lead or serve on a project team
Utilize project management related techniques
Create an accurate project timeline
Incorporate uncertainties in project time ands cost plans
Use various project scheduling techniques
Plan a project balancing the constraints of scope, time, cost and quality
Complete project cost estimation and financial evaluations
Build and maintain effective and efficient project procedures and processes
Identify improvement opportunities to better manage supply chains
Demonstrate proficiency in developing project plans and making sound decisions

The Delegates

This course is designed for professionals who are interested in supply management, including leaders, managers, supervisors, and persons responsible for evaluating and improving their company's supply management programs and activities. The course is also tailored for the needs of those seeking ways to improve, enhance and maximize the value they add to their organisations through better management of their supply systems.

The Process

The course is a mixture of speaker input, several mini-case studies and facilitated discussions. Participants will gain detailed knowledge of project management concepts and techniques by active participation in the group discussions.

The Benefits

Delegates attending this course will gain:

An understanding of the striking similarities between supply management and project management; and learn new skills in order to apply project management principles as effective tools which if successfully implemented will enhance the delegate’s professional capacity to manage supply chains.
An improved personal knowledge of developing and managing project plans, and identifying, controlling and responding to project risks.
An enhanced personal decision making capability.

The Results

Individuals and organisations will be better educated in relation to perceiving and managing their supply systems as unique projects. Individuals will learn how to identify potential opportunities for supply chain improvements, and will have the ability to demonstrate clear, quantifiable short and long-term results thus ensuring better supply chain performance. Organisations, in turn, will have better control on their supply chains through the utilisation of project management best practices.

The Core Competencies

Delegates attending this course will enhance their competencies in the following areas:

Project Management
Project Planning and Monitoring
Project Scheduling and Budgeting
Risk Management Planning
Team Building
Relationship Management
Principled Negotiations
Trend Analysis and Forecasting
Project Reporting

The Programme Content

Day One

Setting up the Scene

Project management terminology and life-cycle project phases
Overview of the Project Management Process
Key areas of Project Management Body of Knowledge
Supply management and project management: similarities and differences
Types of integration
Impact of early decisions on project success
Classical project phases
Project scope – parameters & constraints
The concept of Value-for-Money project delivery
The project supply chain

Day Two

The Project Environment – Objective Parameters

Opportunities and Problems
Identifying, analyzing and managing project stakeholders
Project Charter Development
Beyond SMART Objectives
Introduction to project planning
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
Task characteristics and duration assessment
Planning and scheduling methods, including critical path scheduling
The importance of schedule updating
Incorporating planning in planning and scheduling
Principles of project estimating
Understanding resource estimating in projects
Cost estimation techniques
Implementing cost control
Contingency and escalation

Day Three

The Project Environment – Subjective Parameters

Project quality and reliability issues
Project information management
Project communication management
Project risk management
Risk vs. uncertainty
Risk mitigation strategies
Contingency planning
Performance measures and indicators
Project process maturity
Root cause analysis

Day Four

Effective Project Relationships Management

Suppliers/contractors selection
Project manager skills
Building and sustaining professional relationships
Trust and trust building
Principled negotiations
Leadership skills
Dealing with professional disagreements

Day Five

Project Execution and Closure

Change control processes
Identifying measurements of project success
Project monitoring
Integrating project scope, time and cost
Leading and lagging indicators
Project plan update
Project reporting: to whom and to what level?
Closing and evaluation the project
Project success factors
Application of lessons learned

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Training Methodology

Project Management for Supply Chain Professionals

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