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ASCI Short Courses

For many years now, ASCI has provided the supply chain community with short courses designed to provide knowledge to implement improvements in a company's processes that provide immediate improvements. These courses have included sessions to help senior management with aggregate planning, distribution planners plan inventories in DCs better, master schedulers manage finished goods at the plant more effectively, production and purchasing staff manage work in progress and purchased items more effectively, personnel in charge of data management achieve higher levels of accuracy and IT staff implement ERP/MRPII systems better.

Classes are usually held on a monthly basis and address areas such as: Introducing an effective S&OP/IBP process to manage aggregate plans in an integrated fashion, understanding the use of firm planned orders at a master scheduling level protecting purchasing and reducing stock outs, using cycle counting for tock accuracy rather than the painful annual stock take, achieving high levels of data accuracy, integrating MRP with the supply base, introducing a capacity planning process based on demonstrated capacity rather than theoretical capacity, and implementing an integrated business planning process rather than installing a new ERP system. Plus many more.

These classes help address the situation where the previous staff member has left leaving the new person with some knowledge but little education on how processes should work and non-existent software training to fully understand what the ERP system is capable of.

Be aware, techniques and principles covered in these short courses are based on decades of practitioners experimenting then agreeing on conventions that work in the real world so why not make an enquiry now on which classes would be most suitable for your business and staff.