• Be more effective in managing sustainable supply chains
• Develop appropriate strategies for delivering value
• Use appropriate methodologies for managing suppliers
• Understanding customer management techniques
• Enhance value obtained from suppliers
• How to work with resource depletion within a financial, environmental and social structure.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Supply Chain
• Projects
• Tenders and Contracts
• Purchasing
• Finance

COURSE OUTLINE

• Principles of Good Processes within the Supply Chain
  • Understanding the Sustainable Supply Chain
  • Requirements and Specifications
  • Managing supply chains within challenging financial, environmental and social contexts
  • Price, cost and value
• Principles of Good Management
  • Strategy, vision and finance
  • Objectives of Sustainable Supply Chain management
  • Organisational structure.

Day 2 : Sourcing and Supplier Management

• Appropriate sourcing techniques
• Understanding sustainable supplier management
• Principles of inventory management
• Applying strategies to maximise inventory turns
• Speeding the cash-to-cash cycle time
• The financial justification for change
• Supplier relationship management: strategies, approaches, and tools.

Day 3 : Risks and Opportunities in the Supply Market

• Sustainable Supplier Management and Development
  • Supplier Evaluation
  • Partnerships and alliances
• Supplier Development
  • Local supplier development
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Ethical and Environmental responsible sourcing.

Day 4 : Managing Sustainable Customer Relationships

• Managing Partnerships
  • Appropriate opportunities for partnering and alliances
  • Structure of partnerships
  • Duration and end of partnership arrangements
• Managing non-critical customers
• Managing Service Levels
  • Service Level Agreements
• Customer non-conformance and corrective actions.

Day 5 : Measuring Performance and Leading Change

• Measuring Sustainability Performance
  • Key Performance Measures
  • Financial Measures
• Leading Change
  • Ensuring Cross functional collaboration
  • Promoting Sustainability to the organisation
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Balanced Score Card
• Action planning