Supply Chain Bootcamp

Supply Chain Teams

Leverage existing tools to reduce costs, train your teams, improve communications, identify and resolve inefficiencies, and better align supply chain activities with the changing needs of your business

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

Guidelines to root out inefficiencies using standard tools and reports within your current SAP ERP, SAP Business Suite, or SAP R/3® systems

Proven tools and techniques to build situation-based interventions and solutions that drive business forward to help achieve more effective delivery, enhanced competitiveness, and improve business efficiency within your supply chain

Tips to go beyond SAP system modifications to implement a broad-based change management strategy that not only addresses technology, but also strengthens interdepartmental cooperation and communication, enhances individual “ownership,” and invigorates the supply chain

Advice on how to define and enforce rules across your user base to ensure a single, standardized process for making changes to and properly utilizing your SAP system for process optimization

Powerful team evangelization techniques, exercises, and train-the-trainer strategies for inspiring users to adopt your new plan

Lessons on how other companies are using PAT (process aligned teams) that meet regularly to review exceptions and make decisions on corrective actions

Ways to spot common and costly inefficiencies in the areas of procurement, materials management, inventory and warehouse management, planning, production, logistics, and fulfillment

Principles to shape and measure your optimization efforts, from identifying and implementing optimization measures through their introduction to end users

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)