Supply Chain Seminars

Maset will custom design seminars from one to ten days in length. Topics can be chosen to fit your specific industry and situation. These seminars will be designed by the Maset Consultant and the Company representative to best meet the needs of the audience at the current time.

The length of the seminar will depend on the topics chosen from the following list.

MODEL FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM

• Vision of the Future
• World Class Customers
• Agile Organizations
• Six Rules To Live By
• Successful Suppliers
• New-Good-Fast-Cheap
• Service Quality
• Eight Steps To Customer Satisfaction
• De-Industrialization
• Trends in Manufacturing

SUPPLY MANAGEMENT

• Definition
• Four Stages of Supply Management
• Skills Required
• Vision, Mission, Values
• Materials as a Process
• Seven Deadly Sins
• Process Improvements

SUPPLY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY

• Traditional vs. Horizontal Management
• Commodity Management-Teams-Partnerships
• Re-engineering Business Processes/Value Flow

NEW - GOOD - FAST - CHEAP

• Time to Market
• Six Steps to Effective Product/Process Design
• Concurrent Engineering
• Quality - Six Sigma - Long Term Reliability
• Customer Satisfaction
• Six Sigma Suppliers
• Benchmarking
• Cost of Quality - Hidden Costs
• Overview of Quality Systems
• Quality System Review - Baldrige - Deming - ISO 9000
• 12 Steps of Total Quality Management
• The Ethics of Quality
• Time Based Competition/Implementation
• Six Steps to Fast Cycle Time
• Cross Functional Process Mapping
• Early Supplier Involvement
• Total Cost of Ownership
• Outsourcing - 3rd Party Providers
• Cost Reduction Techniques / Value Management
• Improvement Curves / Target Pricing / Price Analysis

SUPPLIER PARTNERING

• Partnership Model - Litmus Test
• Basics & Benefits of Partnering
• World Class Suppliers - Multiple vs. Single Sourcing
• Negotiations - Win-Win - Total Cost Variables
• Contract Types - Terms
• International Purchasing - Cultural Factors - Contract Differences

SUPPLIER CERTIFICATION PROCESS

• Source Selection - Financial Ratios
• Finding and Improving Suppliers
• Supplier Surveys - Quality System Review

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• Enterprise Integration - Electronic Commerce
• MRP - EDI - Manufacturing Execution System
• Technology - Law of Judicious Utilization

LOGISTICS, WAREHOUSING & DISTRIBUTION

• Requirements of Logistics & Distribution
• The New Warehouse
• Goals - The Supply Chain

WORLD CLASS MEASUREMENT & IMPLEMENTATION

• Setting Meaningful Performance Indicators
• Guidelines to Measuring / Monitoring
• 10 Ways to "Measure Up"
• Measurement Principles / Support System
• Customer - Supplier Measurements
• World Class Quality
• Cost Accounting Systems
• Balanced Scorecard
• Supply Chain Management Metrics
• Benchmarking - Continuous Improvement
• Performance Measurement System Probe
• Implementation Checklist
• Rewards and Recognition
• Teams - Rewards

CHANGE

• Leadership - Action Steps
• Resistance to Change - Blocks & Barriers - Overcoming Resistance
• Empowerment - 10 Elements
• Teams
• Training
• Curriculum Road Map
• Embrace the Absurd
• What of Tomorrow?
• Requirements for Cultural Change

MASET, LLC    P. O. Box 649    Maricopa, AZ 85139
Phone: 520-568-6355     Fax 520-568-6354