GROUP TRAINING 2019

GROUP TRAINING

SUPPLY CHAIN

ESSENTIALS OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Achieve an overall understanding of Supply Chain Management and the mechanisms at work in the functional (forecasting, production, planning, inventory management) and operational arenas (logistics, distribution, transportation, warehousing, recycling).

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OBJECTIVES • Understand how Supply Chain works involving all actors from vendors upstream to customers downstream, covering all functional and operational interfaces, such as product development, production, distribution and even recycling at the end of product life. • Learn how to use Supply Chain Management to generate value for customers and decrease costs, get a healthy inventory and explore the best practices and the latest trends in Saint-Gobain as well as outside the Group.

PARTICIPANTS

Supply Chain stakeholders: logisticians, producers, purchasers, sales managers, management controllers, production planning managers, supply chain analysts

PROGRAMME

• Introduction, definition • Simulation – the Beer Game and discussions • Business value creation by Supply Chain

Organization

• Key process review – SC complexity – Key success factors • SC planning – Make to stock vs Make to order, Inventory Management • Distribution • Contribution of each function to SC • Examples of best practices in & outside of the Group • Conclusion – trends for the future Teaching techniques: presentations, discussions and case studies and “Beer Game” simulation

• 2 days, • Follow up Webex(0.5 days) • Face-to-face session • 18 participants • Attendance sheet • online course evaluation form

• Language: english, french

TRAINERS

External trainer: Michel Fender (Senior Advisor and Professor from HEC Paris) Saint-Gobain Supply Chain Directors

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Programme manager: Agnieszka Kolczarek Coordinator : Ajit-Joseph Sunny

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