Collaborative Planning Workshop

You Will Learn to...

• Appreciate the importance of supply chain collaboration
• Quantify the benefits of internal & external supply chain collaboration
• Set up a collaboration process with your trading partners
• Utilize the various collaboration methods & understand the pros and cons of each
• Understand the key building blocks & challenges in creating a collaborative value chain
• Calculate, Use & Interpret collaboration metrics & the partner collaboration scorecard

Whether you are a Supplier, manufacturer, or distributor in the global Value Chain, an integrated supply chain planning process with partner collaboration is a key requirement to...

• increase customer satisfaction,
• speed up the time to market, and
• Improve profitability.

Integrated supply Chain planning starts with a plan for customer demand, which then gets translated into a production and manufacturing plan, complemented by effective inventory management, and network optimization for improved supply chain efficiencies in the long run.

Traditional supply chains are driven by a halo mentality where one function receives information from another and reacts with goods and service transfers or with more information. However, collaborative supply chains work on the basis of collective inputs from various supply chain participants including even the customer (CPFR) and the vendor (Comanaged Inventory, VMI or Supplier Managed inventory).

In this workshop, we will review and illustrate the various partner collaboration initiatives including VMI, CMI, ECR, and CPFR and their key benefits to an extended value chain. We will illustrate the mechanics of the different collaborative initiatives and show you how to set up a collaboration process with your partners. We will also discuss the key building blocks of Supply chain collaboration including Demand Planning, New Product Development process, order fulfillment, and integrated business planning (S&OP).

Detailed Outline of the Workshop

For more information, please view the workshop brochure (PDF)

To schedule a customized on-site workshop, please contact us.