Course Info
Code PO1-118
Duration 5 Days
Format Classroom
Course Summary
Lean distribution is a system that leverages principles from lean manufacturing to eliminate waste from your operations to improve customer satisfaction and reduce costs. Employing lean helps you to streamline your distribution operations and improve your competitiveness.
This course provides you with a comprehensive understanding of the lean process in the context of distribution to transform your business. You will explore the benefits to lean, how to develop a lean distribution framework, and actionable strategies to implement lean distribution in your planning.
- Understand the principles and methodology of lean distribution and how it reduces costs and simplifies your distribution process.
- Apply lean strategies in practical and productive ways in your downstream supply chain.
- Develop a realistic framework to customise a lean approach to transform your distribution practices.
- Warehouse and Distribution Managers and Supervisors
- Supply Chain Professionals
- Anyone looking to understand lean distribution
This course uses a variety of adult learning styles to aid full understanding and comprehension.
Participants will review case studies to highlight key areas of importance and possible areas for faults.
They will be supplied with the best tools required to carry out learning exercises to improve their skills. Participants will analyse the examples to gain a thorough understanding of how these skills, techniques and methods apply in the workplace.
Course Content & Outline
- Describe what optimising distribution entails.
- Investigate the impact of lower production and sourcing costs.
- Review ways to improve inventory management.
- Discuss the effects of maximising asset utilisation.
- Examine technology infrastructure and directions.
- Describe the lean approach to distribution.
- Summarise lean thinking using the five principles.
- Review the lean distribution framework.
- Explain how the lean paradigm shift improves performance and competitiveness.
- Identify the key components of transitioning to lean.
- Investigate the lean approach to forecasting accuracy.
- Examine the role of information technology in applying the lean approach.
- Discuss the natural fit of RFID with lean manufacturing and distribution.
- Explore strategies to transition to deploying and expanding RFID systems.
- Review case studies of lean distribution in action.
- Identify common distribution challenges: customer service, global sourcing, and functional silos.
- Explore barriers to implementing lean in distribution networks.
- Examine the balancing act between lean and warehousing.
- Describe the lean approach to operations.
- Explain how uncertainty is managed with lean.
- Examine the collaboration of lean and Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP).
- Review customer service policy and service strategies.
- Examine the use of market segmentation to optimise distribution.
- Analyse buffer strategies and distinctions.
- Understand pull trigger and buffer management.
- Compare using capacity or time as buffer strategies over inventory.
- Analyse replenishment orders and inventory targets.
- Describe the benefits of a lean pull system.
- Examine the simplicity of lean.
- Review planning transformation.
- Describe the benefits to lean distribution.
- Discuss ways to sell the vision of lean distribution.
- Analyse implementation of lean distribution.
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