CISCPMCertified International Supply Chain Planning Manager

Course Objectives

Upon completing this supply chain planning course, participants will be able to:

• Recognize the benefits of effectively planning for supply and demand within an organization’s supply chain.
• Associate an organization’s planning activities with the steps for developing an effective supply chain strategy for satisfying customers.
• Identify accurate descriptions of the four types of forecasting methods used to predict customer demand for a product or service.
• Identify the types of information that should be gathered for a supply chain aggregate plan.
• Apply effective aggregate demand planning and S&OP strategies to properly balance cost, production and customer demand within a supply chain.
• Relate the supply chain activities of an organization to the supply and demand methodology they each support.
• Effectively manage an organization’s supply and demand variableness based upon an evaluation of its production initiatives in a given scenario.