MATERIALS PLANNING AND FORECASTING

This course is designed for personnel working in, alongside, or offering non-logistics support to
materials management.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of the course participants will be familiar with techniques by which materials and
components can be moved through the manufacturing process at high velocity without
compromising service, quality or financial objectives covering:

• The essentials of material management

• The relationship between materials management and corporate strategy
• The key techniques supporting materials management
• Best practise in materials management
• Concepts or MRP, JIT and zero inventory
• Developing partnerships

COURSE CONTENT

Session 1: Materials Management as Part of Business Strategy

• Overview of business planning process
• Business forecasting
• Sales and operations planning
• Demand management
• Overview of demand forecasting methods

Session 2: Supplier Development

• Benefits of partnerships
• Limitations to supplier development
• Purchasing in a JIT environment

Session 3: Materials Planning System

• Master production scheduling
• Bill of materials
• Lead times
• Rough cut capacity planning
• Material requirements planning
• Capacity requirements planning

Session 4: Improving Supply Chain Flows

• Visibility in the supply chain
• Reducing manufacturing inventories
• ‘Lean’ manufacturing systems
• Financial systems to support ‘lean’ manufacturing
• JIT

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Session 5: Customer Linking
• Visibility of customer data
• Vendor managed replenishment
• Customer managed replenishment

Session 6: Improving Competitiveness

• Time compression
• Mass customisation
• Organisational Requirements for Improving Materials
• Management Performance

Trainer:

Mr Emmanuel V. Farrugia MILT UK, ESLog

Mr. Jurgen Spiteri

Duration: 6 Sessions of 3 hours each

Dates: 19 – 30 April 2010
Days: Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays
Time: 17.30 – 20.30
Venue: SSM Group Centre in Hamrun
Fee: €221.29 + VAT per person

Certification:

At the end of the training programme all course participants will gain a Certificate of
Achievement endorsed by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport UK
(www.ciltuk.org.uk).

To achieve this Certificate all course participants must attend 90% of the programme.

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