Supply Chain Bootcamp

PROCUREMENT AND PURCHASING TEAMS

We’ll teach you how to reduce procurement spend, and raise fulfillment performance by 15% – 30%

Here is just a glimpse at the best practices and techniques you’ll learn to drive key business improvements:

The top 5 common purchasing practices that inflate your costs (and inventory) such as manual buying practices

Proven techniques for leveraging materials management (MM) and MRP settings, along with purchasing automation functionality that can help you to reduce inventory levels up to 15% within 6 months

Guidance to segment data by time period and hone in on specific problems, like high purchasing averages

Best practices for leveraging LIS reports and analyses to better align your company’s purchasing policies with inventory targets

Specific SAP MRP settings for purchasing automation that can improve warehouse service levels and reduce operational costs

Methods to navigate from Logistics Information Systems (LIS) into other analytic areas, such as the purchasing information system (PIMS), to obtain an integrated view of procurement and inventory management

Tips to manage “old” or “invalid” conversion data for better awareness of your accurate real-time supply chain status for procurement — and techniques for data integrity and reliability

Approaches to ensure that you you’re getting agreed upon vendor pricing and negotiated service levels stated in your supplier contracts with SAP Materials Management

Instruction to apply standard MRP and purchasing functionality such as ABC analysis and Dual Classification (part of your standard SAP system) to free up warehouse space and improve service levels

The correct ways to navigate from the LIS to the Purchasing Information Structure (PIS) to obtain an integrated view of procurement and inventory management — and align inventory level decisions with your business strategy

I learned more about our SAP solutions in 2½ days at this seminar than I did during an entire 6-month training period on the job. We now have a new strategic focus to improve our supply chain activities. This was an outstanding educational event!”

— Sindre Gjoystdal,
MRP Controller
FMC Technologies
(attended in Frankfurt)
…this seminar will pay for itself many times over. There are functions and capabilities within SAP that our business users are not taking advantage that can save us significant time and money!”

— Eric Pulley,
Master Scheduler
Beiersdorf Inc.
(attended in Philadelphia)
… it was really specific and applicable. The speakers offered great insight to evaluate the current state of your company’s supply chain – AND realistic, applicable tools (that we already own) to address shortcomings.”

— Kathleen Suvoy,
Operations Business Analyst
MEDRAD
(attended in Philadelphia)
Every company looking to improve system performance while decreasing costs should attend! …using core SAP tools is big for us in these tough economic times. I now have a solid plan to optimize our processes.”

— Carolyn Lennon,
Continuous Improvement Engineer
Harley-Davidson
(attended in Chicago)
We now have a strategy for getting our inventory and working capital under control. The specific instruction on LIS and the event manager was excellent! The presenters made the material interesting and entertaining.”

— Megan Post,
Supply Chain Manager
Cadbury
(attended in Chicago)
The seminar provided an excellent summary of how to use standard, readily available tools and reports to perform deeper analysis on supply chain processes and high-ROI areas of improvement.”

— John Coombs,
Dir., Information Services
Knauf Insulation GmbH
(attended in Frankfurt)
The lessons taught at this seminar were very practical – we were able to examine our SAP system the first night and start planning our next steps right away. There was an excellent blend of practical application and conceptual information.”

— David Figueira,
Supply Chain Director
ICL Performance Products
(attended in Chicago)
This event taught me the importance of data integrity and exception handling. I learned about standard reports that are already available to me that I can use to optimize our supply chain and support decision-making.”

— Anand Achwal,
Production Planner
CANBERRA Co.
(attended in Chicago)
The speakers presented useful information that you can apply without implementing a new solution. You learn how to use tools that already reside in the SAP system and how to apply them to real-world problems.”

— Kathy Domokos,
Dir. of Supply Chain
Great Lakes Cheese, Inc.
(attended in Philadelphia)
It offered practical insight on how to spot inefficiencies within your end-to-end operations – and, more importantly, how to use existing SAP features and functions to address these problem areas.”

— Michele Brown,
Systems Consultant
Sunoco, Inc.
(attended in Chicago)