Supply Chain Cost Optimization (SAP focused)

• Portfolio Optimization: How can excess product variety be effectively managed as a primary supply chain cost driver (e.g., through phase-out, standardization)?

• Service Level Differentiation: How can you ensure strategic fit without adopting a "one-size-fits-all" approach (e.g., by defining customer and product segments)?

• Inventory Allocation: What are the best practices for determining optimal stock levels across a warehouse network (e.g., local and/or central approaches)?

• Production Strategies: How can push and pull strategies be effectively implemented, and where should decoupling points be placed for maximum efficiency?

• Forecasting: What steps can be taken to improve forecasting accuracy and to optimize safety stock levels (including FCA, FVA, and FCB measures)?

• Inventory Parameters: What adjustments are necessary in an ERP system to better align with lead times and safety stock requirements?

• Supplier Management: How can supplier interface management and collaborative planning be optimized (e.g., through consignment warehouses or VMI)?

• Transport Optimization: How can you improve load utilization rates, streamline 3PL procurement, and optimize route planning and tender management processes?

MODULE 1: Production planning

What needs to be considered in production planning?

• Better decision-making through Sales and Operations Planning, S&OP
• S&OE: Sales and Operations Execution
• Lot size optimization
• Capacity and resource optimization
• Increase in demand accuracy
• Planning & Control: Program Planning and Sequencing (Levelling & Smoothing)
• Maintenance strategies: Preventive maintenance, condition-based maintenance
• Lead times optimization
• Frozen Horizon & other MRP parameters

MODULE 2: Inventory management

Which parameters need to be taken into account in inventory planning?

• Safety and target inventory optimization
• MTO/MTS analysis
• Consignment stock, SMI/VMI
• Forecast Accuracy Optimization
• Stock allocation
• Analysis of decoupling points
• Target service level

MODULE 3: Logistics Execution

How can you optimize your transport and warehousing?

Transportation:

• Route Optimization
• Transport Capacity Utilization
• Consolidation
• Order lot sizes

Warehousing:

• Cross Docking
• Route optimization
• Batch picking

We are organizing the workshop with our partner company Concircle.

Discounts for multiple registrations from one company:

2 registrations - 10%
3 registrations - 20%
4 registrations - 30%

• Supply chain experts
• Decision-makers and IT managers along the value chain
• Managers and group heads
• Teams or individuals, who want to design their supply chain in a cost-optimized way