Operations and Supply Chain Management, March 11-12

China is certainly a manufacturing-based economy. In the current market of growing competition where customers demand more innovation, short lead-times, lower cost and a perfect quality, both industrial and supply chain performances are becoming a key issue. At the same time, the traditional practices in most companies are questioned more and more.

This program is focused on lean management, one of the most important innovation in operations and supply chain management allowing companies to develop continuously their productivity, agility and creativity. Lean approach applies not just internally but also at the level of the extended enterprise, the one which integrates the suppliers and customers.

The program will help managers to understand, design and implement the most appropriate operations structure as well as the most relevant methods for better performance and to develop more effective relations with suppliers and customers.

Objectives:

This training will:
- Present the main operational issues in the current competitive context.
- Describe the key principles of lean management for improving long lasting competitiveness.
- Explain the most useful methods and techniques for developing operations and supply chain performance in a lean thinking.
- Highlight the fundamental management attitudes and tools for steering the continuous improvement process.

Participants:

This seminar has been specifically designed for operational management like plant managers, production managers, material and supply chain managers, marketing managers, sales managers, project managers, IT managers or engineers and experts who need to understand, design and implement the most appropriate operations structure for better performance.

Content :

1. Operational aspects of competitiveness and related key issues
- Service, speed, quality, productivity, innovation, …

2. Simplification, streamlining and speeding-up the value chain, a response to the current issues

3. Lean Management, the art of conquering sustainable performance
- Value creation for the Customer
- Waste elimination and cost reduction
- Obsession for simplification and quest for perfection

4. The major methods and techniques
- Steering flows and the global supply chain in a JIT approach
* Value Stream Mapping (VSM)
* Decoupling, synchronous manufacturing and pulled flows systems (kanban, …)
* Inventory management and work in process reduction
* Organizing and speeding-up the decision-making process
* Suppliers development

- Productivity and quality management
* Development of capacities and flexibility (TPM, SMED)
* Processes mastery and robustness (SPC and six sigma)

- Collective brainpower mobilization
* Teams with enlarged responsibility
* 5S and visual management
* Problems solving techniques

5. Deploying performance development strategies
- From strategic issues to key performance indicators
- From measurement to action plan
- Managing improvement activities

6. Conclusion

Teaching approach:

Combination of formal presentations illustrated by examples, case studies and business games such as :
* Theory of Constraints Simulator for demonstrating the importance of capacities management and for explaining how to use critical resources for synchronizing the flows.
* Just In Time Game for understanding and comparing the impact of different industrial management tactics.
* Beer game” for highlighting the key levers of Supply Chain Management.

Trainer :

Prof. Pierre-Marie Gallois View his CV
Professor in Operations Management, Industrial Excellence and Global Supply Chain for MBA and executives programs at the ESCP Europe.
APICS (Association for operations management – USA) Certification in Industrial Management.
Certification in Theory of Constraints.
President of Proconseil Group, an important consulting company specialized in industrial performance.

Inquiry & Registration:
Ms GUAN Hualing, the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Tel: (021) 6132 7181, Fax: (021) 6132 7167, Email: hlguan@ccipcn.org
Web site: www.euroasiamanagement.com

Please download Registration Form and return it to Ms GUAN Hualing
by FAX or EMAIL (scanned copy with company chop) before February Friday 5th, 2010.