Logistics Management Course Agenda

Course language:	English
Course location:	Delivered on site

Day 1 (Half day)

Welcome/ pre-test

Pipeline management: Group simulation exercise to experience the impact of long lead-times on the ability to adapt to changing customer demand.

Day 2

Factual approach to decision making:

§ Process metrics: quality, time, WIP

§ How to measure variability: run charts and histograms

§ Customer satisfaction measurement and interpretation

§ Basic stats with Excel

Process optimisation:

§ PC based simulation to experience process dynamic performance

§ Interrelations between throughput, lead-time, WIP, yield, etc.

§ Queue building mechanisms

§ Experiment alternative solutions and their side effects.

Day 3

Resource requirements planning:

§ Capacity management

§ Aggregate plan

§ HR planning

§ Inventory control

§ Materials requirements planning

§ Procurement and subcontracting

§ PC-based simulation

Day 4

Just-In-Time and Lean Logistics:

§ Flexible line layout and manufacturing flow

§ Job shop Vs dedicated line

§ Pull Vs push logistics. Takt time

§ Lot size and set-up time reduction

§ Kanban PC-based simulation

§ Operator-machine work combination

§ Management by sight

§ Workmanship: 5S

Constraint management:

§ Group work and PC based simulation

§ Experiment with the influence of constraints on the process overall optimisation

§ Lot size optimisation

§ Use of Excel Solver to optimise logistic systems with constraints

Day 5 (Half day)

Work order finite capacity scheduling:

§ Equipment and operator times

§ Customer demand: takt time

§ Schedule Gantt chart

§ Forward and backward scheduling

§ Set-up time and lot size

§ Total time and average job time

§ Actual situation feedback to the scheduler: re-schedule

§ PC-based scheduler to experiment the side effects of each decision

Post-test and final course evaluation