Strategic Supply Chain Management Negotiation
How to create corporate value with leading-edge, strategic supply chain management
Program Description:
The Strategic Supply Chain Management Negotiation seminar explores the vital role played by supply management in achieving overall effectiveness in a global economy. The seminar examines how supply management becomes a strategic contributor by developing strategies that create top- and bottom-line corporate value, nurturing supplier relationships that lead to competitive advantage, and taking actions to become a preferred customer to suppliers. The seminar stresses supply management best practices and features lectures, current topics and readings, and cases. The faculty instructor is a renowned thought leader in the field of procurement negotiation and supply chain management and is an expert in strategic sourcing, supply market intelligence, and supplier development. The instructor serves as a Professor of Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University’s Poole College of Management and as an Adjunct Professor at the Supply Chain Management Research Group at the Manchester Business School. He is a globally recognized leader in the field, contributing regularly to the intellectual capital of Supply Chain Management. In this customized TNI seminar, participants learn how to can gain a competitive advantage for their firm by strategically managing the supply chain. Participants will learn tools and strategies they can implement immediately upon returning to the workplace.
- Topics:• Understanding Strategic Supply Management, Including Risk Management and Leadership
• Stressing the Enablers of Strategic Supply Management
• Developing Strategies and Contracting
• Outsourcing for Competitive Advantage
• Building a World-Class Supply Base and Managing Supplier Relationships
• Managing Costs Strategically, Including the Development of Total Cost of Ownership Systems
• Involving Suppliers Early
• Sourcing Globally
• Looking toward the Future - Key Takeaways:• Gain an understanding of proven strategies in supply chain management
• Learn to enable strategic supply chain management, and understand how to sustain the new supply chain
• Bring competitive advantage to your firm through the supply chain
• Understand how strategic supply management supports the achievement of corporate improvement beyond achieving lowest purchase price
• Understand how strategic supply management fits within your firm’s integrated value chain
• Develop a strong knowledge of leading-edge strategic supply management strategies and processes - Likes:
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