World-Class Integrated Business Planning

  • Overview
  • Course Content
  • Requirements & Materials
Overview

World-Class Integrated Business Planning

Course Description

Cost-to-Serve analytics provides a holistic view toward supply chain performance and supports effective supply chain management. You’ll learn how to handle the challenges of today’s operating environment with “Big Data,” best practices in building a cost-to-serve solutions, and analytics that create actionable insights for developing smart strategies for financial improvements. Best practices will be applied in an interactive exercise using the results from the latest innovative software.

This course is also available as a private or corporate offering. Visit the Supply Chain and Logistics Corporate Training page to learn more.

Course Content

OVERVIEW

  • The power of analytics and data
  • Typical company situation

COST-TO-SERVE

  • Defining Cost-to-Serve (CTS)
  • CTS analytics tools

NET LANDED PROFIT

  • Net Landed Profit (NLP) introduction
  • CTS and NLP resources
  • Documenting actionable strategies
Requirements & Materials

Materials

Provided

  • Course notebook

Session Details

  • Special Discounts: All residents of the State of Georgia are eligible for a 50% discount while funds last thanks to a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration. Use of this discount is subject to verification of GA residency. Enter coupon code SCL-GAAIM at checkout (cannot be combined with other discounts).

    Non-Georgia residents can register and pay for all required courses in a Supply Chain & Logistics certificate and receive a discount of 17% off per course. Enter coupon code SCL-Cert at checkout. Review coupon instructions for more information.

    If you have 3 or more participants from your organization, please contact us for volume discounts at course@scl.gatech.edu.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for chief financial officers; supply chain finance, marketing, or sales executives (managers, directors, vice presidents, executive vice presidents); supply chain and logistics managers, consultants, supervisors, planners, and engineers; supply chain education and human resource management personnel; inventory planners; procurement and sourcing analysts and managers; and transportation planners, managers, and engineers.

Supply chain professionals learning in classroom

What You Will Learn

  • The fundamentals for building a cost-to-serve model tailored to individual company environments
  • How to apply the tailored approaches to drive sustained performance improvements
  • How to leverage Big Data techniques to quickly identify cost and profit improvement opportunities
Supply chain professionals collaborating in warehouse

How You Will Benefit

  • Understand the steps needed to build a cost-to-serve model tailored for their company’s operating environment.
  • Champion the need for cost to serve analytics for cross-functional activities.
  • Distinguish the value of cost-to-serve analytics in developing specific strategies and measuring their impact.
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The course schedule was well-structured with a mix of lectures, class discussions, and hands-on exercises led by knowledgeable and engaging instructors.

- Abe Kani
President

TRAIN AT YOUR LOCATION

We enable employers to provide specialized, on-location training on their own timetables. Our world-renowned experts can create unique content that meets your employees' specific needs. We also have the ability to deliver courses via web conferencing or on-demand online videos. For 15 or more students, it is more cost-effective for us to come to you.

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  • Flexible Schedule
  • Group Training
  • Customize Content
  • On-Site Training
  • Earn a Certificate
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