Supply Chain Bootcamp

PRODUCTION TEAMS

Improve your lead-time accuracy 15% – 20% as you optimize processes and realize incalculable benefits across your supply chain

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

Guidelines to reduce frequencies and lot sizes, and minimize holding and setup costs in your production environment

A methodology to identify (before or after production or during certain warehouse activities) and build lead time buffers into your material master data

Identified documents and alerts to show you what can happen to an order during processing in production, logistically, and along a delivery route, and see what tools are available to handle exceptions

Instruction on how to set up and leverage available-to-promise (ATP) functionality (within sales and distribution), production planning, and plant maintenance applications to establish rock solid delivery dates

Tips to help you understand the impact of accurate, up-to-date lead times on your delivery and take home examples of how other companies have balanced inventory levels with production schedules and lead times

Insight into SAP’s standard tools and reports you can leverage to monitor and improve on lead times

New and more efficient ways to track lead time performance taking into account supplier, warehouse, planning, scheduling, release dates, and ship times

Methods to improve the way you align data definitions for production

The correct steps to improve data flow within your production environment to improve synchronization across procurement, inventory, and customer service

Criteria to determine the frequency with which lead-time estimates really need to be updated

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)