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Supply Chain Economics

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Key Benefits
During this course, you will:
Investigate the relationship between supply chain operating success and financial metrics through information flow analysis
Explore and leverage Activity-Based Cost and Revenue Management for value creation and profit improvement with money value of time
Examine the need for strategic alliances in the supply-demand value chain and the challenges of developing meaningful information standards in supply chain relationships
Explore Electronic Value Added and other performance metrics as systems to improve productivity and achieve process and operational excellence
Leverage productivity gains for a global environment through purchasing, distribution technology, and customer needs assessment
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Program Content
 

Linking Strategy and Operations

  • Strategic positioning and integration
  • Strategy implementation
  • Process linkage and performance

Fundamentals of Financial Analysis

  • Income and cash flows
  • Rates and ratios and their usage
  • Looking for trouble in all the right places

Linking Operational and Financial Flows for Sustainable Profits

  • Operational flows and optimization
  • Linking financial/cash flows with operations
  • Leveraging financial information for productivity

Cost, Revenue, and Activity-Based Management

  • Measure, Monitor, Manage, and Maximize
  • Cost and time measures with ABM
  • Revenue and revenue drivers with ABM

Financial Information for Strategic Alliances

  • Extended enterprise resource planning (ERP) among suppliers, producers, distributors, and customers
  • Efficient consumer response and the supply chain
  • Electronic value added and management

Supply-Demand Value Chain and the Internet

  • Discipline of value maximization
  • Supply-demand value chain and technology
  • Financial and non-financial performance measures

Case Studies

  • Best practices for supply chain value management
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