Professional Diploma in Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management is designing, planning, execution, control, and monitoring of supply chain activities with the objective of creating added value, building a competitive infrastructure, synchronizing supply with demand and measuring performance globally.
Business professionals who want to make a significant impact on the efficiency, effectiveness or profitability of their organizations should consider learning more about supply chain management and its value for companies operating in today competitive marketplace.

1. Supply Chain Introduction

• Supply Chain Management Definition
• Relation between supply chain and modern business
• Supply chain from different perspectives
• Managing of Supply chain conflicts
• Integration of supply chain management

2. Forecasting and Demand Planning

• Importance of forecasting in supply chain
• Types and methods of forecasting
• Sources of demand
• Different time horizons of planning
• Business planning, S&OP, master scheduling and MRP
• KPIs of forecasting and demand planning

3. Procurement & Supply Management

• Strategic Sourcing, Procurement & purchasing
• Supplier Classification techniques
• Procurement and tendering Processes
• Pre-qualifications of suppliers
• Different techniques of supplier selection
• Types of procurement contracts
• Supplier Performance Metrics &(KPI) For Procurement

4. Production Management

• The impact of Production on supply chain
• Production activity control
• Capacity management of production process
• Methods of production improvement.
• Quality techniques (lean, Six sigma, TQM & TOC)
• Quality Control and Quality Assurance

5. Inventory Control and Costing

• Inventory impacts in financial statements
• Inventory categories and types
• Inventory levels, reorder point and safety stock.
• Order management techniques (quantities, systems & timing)
• Inventory cost and financial valuation of the inventory
• Techniques of controlling the inventory items
• KPIs of the inventory management

6. Warehousing and Materials Handling

• Main warehousing processes and adding value activities
• Designing of warehouses Layouts & Space utilizations
• Material handling equipment and tools
• Selection techniques of warehouses location
• Distribution centers management
• Warehousing performance and KPIs

7. Logistics Management

• Selection transportation modes “Land, Air and Sea”
• Managing of Liner and chartering logistics
• The main activities of door to door freight forwarding processes
• International commercial terms (INCO terms)
• Customs processes and HS code
• Logistics documents types
• LPIs and KPIs of logistics processes

8. Supply Chain Functions by using Excel

• Forecasting
• Planing
• Procurement Management
• Inventory Management

At Supply Chain Diploma Completion; Participants will be able to:

• Apply operation processes from business perspectives
• Create a complete supply chain business processes
• Apply the main processes of end to end supply chain
• Integrate all activities of supply chain to be harmonized smoothly
• Link between market demand and supply activities
• List the factors effects on customers satisfactions and resources utilization
• Apply different strategies to achieve demand supply balance
• Assess the performance measurements and KPIs of all supply chain activities

• Seniors and Executives who are involved in supply chain management.
• All have relations and business impact with supply chain processes
• Teams of planning, procurement , warehousing, operation and logistics management