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Supply Chain Planning that Delivers a Competitive Edge
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Supply Chain Planning that Delivers a Competitive Edge

Expand your supply chain planning knowledge with an eye on the changing supply chain landscape
Created byKinaxis Inc.
Last updated 7/2018
English
English

What you'll learn

  • The historic and current practices in supply chain planning to understand where we are going.
  • Key knowledge to give a competitive advantage when entering the supply chain field.
  • How to eliminate frustrating issues like data lag, slow response times, and a lack of visibility across your supply chain.
  • The benefits of modernizing your supply chain planning.
  • What a future supply chain will look like within the digital world, including the Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine Learning (ML).
  • The three stages of adopting new technology.
  • How concurrent planning can eliminate the bullwhip effect.
  • How to use concurrent planning to tear down silos.
  • How to use speed and efficiency to defeat the competition.
  • The three components of Supply Chain 4.0.
  • How to revolutionize planning with Supply Chain 4.0.
  • Ways to modernize your supply chain by knowing sooner and acting faster.

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Course content

1 section • 7 lectures • 38m total length

  • Introduction2:49

    Explore the critical practice of supply chain planning, addressing data lag, slow responses, and visibility gaps, to modernize processes and gain a competitive edge in the digital era.

  • History of supply chain planning6:47

    Explore the evolution of supply chain planning from MRP to MRP II and APS, highlighting integration, silos, and the three adoption stages—substitution, scale, and structure.

  • History of supply chain planning
  • Inherent challenges6:20

    Explore inherent challenges in supply chain planning, including the bullwhip effect from demand spikes. See how concurrent planning links demand and supply through shared data to improve speed and resilience.

  • Inherent challenges
  • Modernizing planning4:36

    Modernize your supply chain by integrating data, processes, and people with IoT and machine learning to enable faster, more accurate planning.

  • Modernizing planning
  • Interview with John Sicard, CEO Kinaxis7:36

    Interconnect all chain links with concurrent planning to reveal real-time demand and capacity shifts. Kinaxis enables sandbox simulations across billions of records for six verticals, empowering what-if tests in seconds.

  • Interview with John Sicard, CEO Kinaxis
  • Conclusion1:56

    Explore the evolution from MRP to APS, why modernizing the supply chain matters in a fast digital age, and preparing for demand shifts and disruption.

  • Final quiz
  • Bonus Lecture: Additional resources8:44

Requirements

  • A computer with an internet connection
  • An interest in discovering the future of supply chain

Description

The 1960s called. They want their supply chain back.  

Until recently, supply chain planning had not changed very much since the 1960s. Why not gain a competitive advantage over your peers, and learn how supply chain has transformed in a digital world? This informative and compact course will rapidly help you expand your supply chain planning knowledge with an eye on the changing supply chain landscape, and teach you how to employ concurrent planning and 21st century technology to modernize your supply chain. 

You may already have some background in supply chain or plan to be a supply chain professional. This course will fortify your existing knowledge, by teaching the latest techniques and technology used by modern supply chain planners to gain a competitive advantage over their industry rivals. Together, we’ll examine how the use of concurrent planning eliminates silos and disconnects between various stages of a supply chain.  

By the conclusion of this 30-minute course, you will be exposed to valuable lessons and examples that can bring you an immediate return on your investment, and more efficiently drive your materials through your supply chain to build your finished goods. You will be ready to revolutionize planning in supply chain for the 21st century. 

Enroll now and gain your advantage before someone else does! 

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone wishing to modernize their supply chain planning skills
  • Anyone looking to enter the supply chain field

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