The Supply Chain Planner's Job 1-Day Course
Planning excellence for finished items, components, sub-assemblies, work-in-progress and purchased items. Give your planers the knowledge they need to control inventories, implement successful safety stock strategies, and enable purchasing to integrate with suppliers through MRP.
KEY BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
In this workshop, you will find out how to:
- DIFFERENTIATE between co-ordination, reliability & LEAN
- UNDERSTAND the development of planning techniques and why finished goods must be managed differently to DC and component inventories
- REVIEW where your business is on the planning maturity scale
- DISCUSS successful New Product Introduction approaches
- IMPLEMENT an effective Sales Forecasting Process using existing Excel capabilities
- LEARN how to schedule DC inventories, Finished Item inventories & Manufactured/Purchased inventories through DRP, MPS, MRP & Vendor Scheduling for supplier connectivity
- UNDERSTAND data accuracy requirements for a successful computer-based management system regardless of your ERP system
- CREATE a simple safety stock/inventory level simulator to feed the pre-IBP process & the Senior Management IBP meeting
- UNDERSTAND the link to operations & purchasing including RCCP, the go to planning approach, that has replaced detailed Capacity Requirements Planning (CRP)
- OBTAIN “next practice” checklists to assist on your journey to best practice demand planning & sales forecasting including the Tom Wallace excel based S&OP diagnostic tool to conduct a self-assessment of key processes related to the monthly aggregate process. This checklist does not cover every aspect of an integrated planning & control process however, 2 other checklists will be provided to expand a self-assessment of your business.
WORKSHOP OVERVIEW
This course has been designed with a focus on the practical aspects of supply chain planners in distribution, the factory, and the purchasing department. Planning effectively as an individual can provide good improvements in inventory investment and customer service. However, planners working across the supply chain in an integrated fashion, can deliver much more to the profits of the business.
Accountabilities and cross functional links will be discussed to enable you to assess the quality of your current processes against world class checklists. Although participants will receive 3 checklists the focus for this class will be the Tom Wallace self-assessment, excel based tool. The other 2 checklists provided free will be the Fundamental checklist and a checklist focused more on Behaviours rather than processes (not that processes aren’t important!).
Relevant performance measures will be presented to ensure companies are using the correct measures & the correct formula.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Practitioners in medium to large businesses involved in setting safety stock levels, achieving high levels of customer service, managing & reducing inventory levels, sales forecasting activities, sales planning activities & customer communications where staff interact with the master schedule or distribution plans, supply chain planners, production planners, inventory planners, master schedulers, pre-S&OP and S&OP participants. Such as:
Supply Chain Managers. Demand Planners.
Production Managers. Planning Managers.
Inventory Managers. Purchasing Managers.
IT Managers. Project Team Leaders.
Finance Managers. Project Team Members.
Staff responsible for sales forecasting and order entry.
S&OP/IBP Project Managers. Distribution Managers
Course Dates & Duration
27 January 2026
Classes are conducted from 9 am to 5 pm Sydney Time, totaling 8 training hours. Participants will join the training via ZOOM. Participants will earn 8 CPD points for certification maintenance.
Prices
ASCI Member: $995
Non Member: $1,395
For detailed course information, please contact us at enquiries@asci.org.au.