SCMAP Perspective #236
April 22, 2010 by carlo
Published in Port Calls, March 1, 2010
SCM TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
Fax 551-3207
Email lizaalmonte@yahoo.com.ph
By Ed Sanchez
SCMAP Executive Director
Strategic Procurement Seminar
SCMAP is offering its second public seminar for the year. The seminar is a one-day seminar on Strategic Procurement, with the following schedule.
Date : Friday, March 19, 2010
Time : 8:00 to 5:00 pm
Venue : Astoria Plaza, Escriva Drive, Pasig City
Fees are P5,500 for SCMAP members andP6,875 for non-members. Both figures are VAT included.
The seminar targets companies procuring goods and logistics services, and will encourage these companies to
- Raise their level of procurement practice from clerical or commercial to strategic
- Analyze their “spend” to identify what needs most management attention
- Develop appropriate strategies to provide the company the assurance of reliable and value-for-money suppliers and service providers
The seminar also targets suppliers and logistics service providers, and will encourage them to
- Understand how customers categorize their company and services
- Improve value and competitive advantage to their customers
Target participants may come from the following functions
- Supply chain, Materials, Logistics, Procurement managers and staff
- Finance managers and other corporate executives
- Marketing and Sales professionals
Seminar topics include
- Supply chain and strategic competitiveness
- Clerical, commercial and strategic level of SCM operations
- Prioritizing your efforts
- Understanding your supply market
- Strategic framework for analysis :
- Generic strategies to reduce supply risks and improve value
Seminar speaker will be Augusto Arguelles, Prof. in Operations & SCM at the Ateneo Graduate School of Business, with over 30 years of consulting and managerial experience in several companies and an Advanced Certificate in SCM, UN Intl. Trade Center
Gus Arguelles is one of the original group of 10 that established DMAP (Distribution Management Association of the Phils., the predecessor of SCMAP) way back in August 1989.
As with other SCMAP seminars, this one is conducted for SCMAP by UniMaC Business Consultancy, Inc.
Other seminars coming up for SCMAP follow.
Quantitative Approaches to Logistics Planning
This is a 6-hour workshop intended to teach the basics of two tools that might be used to re-design a distribution network and improve a company’s demand forecasts.
Workshop topics
- Forecasting Techniques – Basics of forecasting, types of forecasts, forecasting approaches, ‘recommended techniques’, estimating probable forecast error, steps in preparing a forecast, importance in logistics planning
- Warehouse Site Selection Using Optimization – Issues involved, cost items considered, relevant constraints and other factors, modeling the problem, using Excel to solve the problem, interpretation of model results
Tentative Schedule is on Saturday, April 17, 2010. Fees P4,000 for members / P5,000 for non-members.
Target participants include
- Logistics staff, supply chain analysts
- Managers of logistics and other SCM functions
- Other supply chain and logistics staff, or staff in related and interface functions (finance, distribution planning, inventory management, transportation, etc.) who could be involved in a review of the company’s SC processes
Speaker / Workshop Leader will be Sam Cruz, Operations Research Expert / Consultant, and former OR Manager, San Miguel Corp.
The teaching method uses hands on computer examples in Excel.
2010 Shipping Immersion Course
This is a seminar on board a vessel, covering topics on shipping, ports, maritime issues and other logistics issues. Speakers will be experts from the government and the private sector, from the ranks of service providers, users and the academe.
Tentative schedule : May 14 to 17 (weekend after election). Destination is likely to be Boracay or Cebu. Finalization will depend on ship schedules.
In House Seminars
Meanwhile SCMAP offers in house seminars to companies that have 10 or more participants in a given seminar or workshop.
In house seminars may be on soft skills or technical skills
An in house seminar could be the preferred format if a company wants to cover certain topics more in depth, say warehousing issues. Another example might be the quantitative approaches to logistics planning mentioned above, if focused on the company’s distribution network. In this case the company would want to have the seminar exclusive to the company.
An in house seminar may be the only choice in the case of certain soft skills training, for example teambuilding.
Prof. Ninoy Rollan of the Ateneo de Manila Graduate School of BUsiness, professor in Leadership and Human Resources, handles SCMAP – UniMaC soft skills seminars. The argument for soft skills is that technical skills are not enough and need to be augmented with soft skills (leadership, priority setting, time management, team building, coaching, etc.)
SCMAP-DLSU Certificate Program in SCM
SCMAP-DLSU offering continues. All classes are on Saturdays at DLSU in RCBC Building in Makati.
Address inquiries and comments to Ed Sanchez at tel. 671-8670, fax 671-4793, cell 0918-914-1689, or email scmap.org@gmail.com. Those interested in SCMAP training and other activities are requested to send their e-mail addresses. Visit SCMAP’s website at:www.scmap.org
