Supply Chain and Lean Production Integration
Delivering a product to your customers at the right time, place and cost requires highly integrated lean production and supply chain management operations, from initial design through procurement, production and delivery. Proper alignment of lean production practices with supply chain management practices yields greater efficiencies of time and cost.
Supply Chain and Lean Production Integration is a customized educational program that presents a systems approach for integrating your lean production activities with your supply chain management activities, aligning key functions with business strategy.
Program Topics
Lean Production
- Strategic role of operations
- Process Flow Management
- Lean Production
- Managing operations uncertainties
- Reducing operations uncertainties that cause waste
- Cost effective ways to accommodate uncertainties including customer demand - Push versus Pull production
- Improvement strategies
Global Supply Chain Management
- Establishing supply chain maturity
- Aligning supply and demand management
- Positioning inventory in your supply chain for optimal customer service
- Designing your supply chain for new products and services
- Establishing collaborative supply chain relationships
- Strategic sourcing and supplier development
- Establishing supply chain performance metrics
- Global logistics and distribution strategy
- Supply chain risk management
Related faculty centers, initiatives & Academic Programs
Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain Resource Consortium (SCRC) - Academic Concentration, Research and Outreach