Supply Chain Bootcamp

INVENTORY & WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT TEAMS

Raise inventory turns, reduce stockouts, and better align inventory with purchasing and production, and reduce inventory levels up to 15% within 6 months!

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

Guidelines to leverage standard SAP tools to analyze your inventory to provide the best indicators or inventory levels and effectively identify high moving, high-average materials

Expert tips for using the exception monitor, LIS, and inventory analysis tools in your current SAP systems to pinpoint master data problems that could lead you to purchase and stock more inventory than you need

Proven methods to better align purchasing, inventory, and warehouse management with production for faster throughput and on-time delivery

Techniques for using LIS drill-down capabilities to generate real-time, visual representations of process performance and to make better inventory decisions

Methods to implement MRP policies in SAP that can help you control lot sizes and frequencies

Tips for leveraging materials management (MM) and MRP settings, to help reduce inventory levels

Instruction on using historic inventory activity data in your SAP system to set better supply cycles and lot sizes with vendors and suppliers

A methodology on how lowering inventory averages can help you better optimize inventory turns

Best practices to prevent stockouts

Guidance on how 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 best 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

Inventory reduction steps to take first for immediate cost savings

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

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)