Strategic Planning of Supply Chain Facilities Training Course:

Course Overview

This hands-on working conference will show you step-by-step how to successfully plan major investments in capacity and facilities. You will learn proven methods that integrate the five components of every supply chain facility — layout, handling, communications, utilities and building design.

Working "top-down" and "outside-in," you will learn and experience the practice of systematic planning. Case exercises and teamwork assure your mastery of the material. Specific techniques are presented for estimating space and capacity required, evaluating automation and for linking your facilities plans to those of your business and supply chain. The methods presented can be put to immediate use on your current or next planning project. They are equally useful for inbound logistics, finished goods distribution, transportation, assembly and configuration, service centers and consolidation and repurposing.

Who Should Attend?

Senior executives, plant and distribution center managers, supply chain directors and managers and industrial and plant engineers

Course Objectives:

• Maximize the strategic value and flexibility of your capital assets — land, buildings, machinery and equipment.

• Improve the link between business needs, supply chain strategy and facilities plans.

• Speed up the planning of major rearrangements and expansions.

• Save time and prevent oversights on major capital projects.

Contents:

• Facilities and supply chain strategy

• Supply chain network design

• Site location and selection

• Systematic layout planning

• Facility layout

• Systematic handling analysis

• Systematic planning of industrial facilities

• Integrating the major components of an industrial facility

• Estimating capacity and space requirements

• Master site planning

• Team presentations and evaluation of alternative plans

• Key decisions for distribution and logistics facilities

• Guided applications of systematic planning