Pre-conference full-day in-depth learning sessions – Wednesday 15 November
Registration and morning coffee for both sessions is at 08:30 and sessions will conclude at 17:00. Lunch, morning and afternoon tea provided. Choose between:
In-depth learning session A:
Towards a 21st century logistics strategy for online retail
This workshop is designed for supply chain, logistics and warehousing managers and will guide you through developing a comprehensive and up to date logistics strategy for your business. We’ll uncover how to align your logistics with your business strategy and how to optimise for productivity, accuracy and reliability. You’ll learn how to put in place a development plan to build logistics processes and systems that will scale with your growth and how your particular business profile will require a unique solution for your logistics.
Participants will be sent a pre-workshop questionnaire to profile their business ahead of the workshop. They will receive copies of presentations, notes and templates for developing their logistics strategy through the day. There will also be some flexibility to focus on particular areas of interest according to the preferences of the group. Attendees can join in instant case studies and design sessions with Andrew to highlight the strategies discussed in their own business context.
Key topics and take away skills/benefits:
- Learn the essentials of inventory planning and forecasting, how to forecast the unforecastable and how purchasing practice can have a huge impact on your cashflow and ROI
- Understand how to manage your physical inventory, optimise your warehousing for storage density and throughput and speed your distribution to your customers.
- Find out about the current state of software and technology for logistics and how you cannot afford not to be using it
- Assess how to avoid the pitfalls that plague almost every software & technology implementation
- Explore the benefits and traps of in house vs outsourced logistics
- Q&A – Bring your questions about your logistics struggles and get them answered
Session Facilitator:
Andrew Clark
Managing Director
Logistics Help
In-depth learning session B:
Strategies for delivering operational excellence in supply chain practices
Operational excellence is a philosophy of leadership, teamwork and problem solving. With the right focus and strategies the result is continuous improvement throughout organisations by focusing on the needs of the customer, empowering employees and
optimizing existing activities in the process.
This in-depth session will look at the value of operational excellence within the context of safety, quality, productivity, human development, and cost, with practical strategies on how to best implement a strategy to achieve organization wide operations excellence.
Key topics this session will address:
- Understand the five functions and 20 critical success factors of Operations Excellence
- Learn the crucial role of business planning in business success
- Discover the power of Operations Excellence to create a competitive edge
- Reap the benefits of Operations Excellence to establish world class operations
- Find out how to establish your business plan as the benchmark for creating success
- Learn how to establish current levels of performance
- Determine how to implement operations best practices
- Develop best practices to deliver operations excellence for the benefit of your organisation, customers, staff and community
- Discover the potency of integrating operations excellence across all functional areas
- Understand how to position yourself as a leader and thinker in operations excellence
Session Facilitator:
Peter Nemtsas
Managing Director
Myoora Transformations