Detailed Scheduling for Make Items
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Description: Convert the detailed material plan for make items into detailed schedules for the factory to produce what is needed, when it’s needed and in what sequence. Dispatch and monitor the actual execution of the material and capacity plans. Differentiate the terms and techniques to accomplish tasks in this area.
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Suggested Follow-up Courses:   Executing the Plans for Buy Items           

Executing the Plans for Buy Items
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Description: Focus on the execution of the detailed material plan for buy items into detailed schedules for the purchasing of what is needed, when it’s needed and in what sequence. Monitor the actual execution of the materials plans. Differentiate the term and techniques to accomplish task in this area. This is not a purchasing class, but rather, details the information that planning provides purchasing.
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Suggested Follow-up Courses:   Forecasts and Customer Orders           

Forecasts and Customer Orders
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Description: Discover how forecasts and customer orders are used by systems to generate the material and capacity plans. Follow the flow of product from receipt of customer order, through the warehouse, shipping and final receipt of the customer. Differentiate the terms and techniques to accomplish tasks in this area.
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Suggested Follow-up Courses:   Purchasing and Receiving Raw and Purchased Components           

International Procurement and the Global Supply Chain
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Description: Overview of key background information, fact-finding and negotiation, cultural, legal and economic problems, payment provisions and letters of credit, purchasing methods, references, transportation modes, documentation, the customs clearance process and trends and predictions. Through interactive exercises and case studies, gain skills and knowledge in understanding, relating to, negotiating and working with peoples of different and diverse cultures.
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Introduction to Logistics and Materials Management
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Description: Define the aspects of the Supply Chain internal to a company. Explore the history of Logistics and Materials Management systems. Review of the current state of systems and techniques available today.
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Suggested Follow-up Courses:   Material Planning Basics           

Logistics and Materials Management Certificate Series
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Description: The Logistics and Materials Management Certificate Series prepare you to plan and sequence materials so that operations can produce goods and services to meet forecasts and customer demands. Learn the basics of planning and managing inventory, raw materials, purchased components, work-in-progress and finished goods. Plan and manage capacity of resources including people, equipment, tooling space, funds, purchasing, receiving, warehousing, customer order receipt and insuring goods are shipped correctly and on time. The fundamentals of computer-based Enterprise Resource Planning systems will be covered. These classes primarily focus on aspects of supply chain internal to a company.
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Managing a Purchasing Card Program
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Description: Overview of the Sourcing, Source Selection and Evaluation Process, Program Design, Program Implementation, Program Management, Benchmarking and Program Changes, and Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley. Through interactive exercises and discussion, gain skills and knowledge in understanding, negotiating, implementing, managing and enhancing a Purchasing Card Program for your employer.
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Material Planning Basics
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Description: Explore the fundamentals of materials requirements planning. Plan inventory using various available techniques. Understand the data requirements and how computer systems develop material and capacity plans.
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Suggested Follow-up Courses:   Detailed Scheduling for Make Items           

Negotiation for Supplies and Services
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Description: Overview covering the negotiation process for supplies and services. Through interactive exercises, discussion and lecture you will have the opportunity to gain skills and knowledge in understanding, relating to, negotiating and working with people domestically and internationally as it relates to the purchasing process.
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Suggested Follow-up Courses:   International Procurement and the Global Supply Chain      Managing a Purchasing Card Program     

Purchasing and Receiving Raw and Purchased Components
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Description: Explore how systems handle purchase requisitions and orders. Understand the flow of information, money, goods and services from receipt of the requisition by purchasing through receipt of the goods by production. Specify the requirements of receiving, inspection, warehousing and final receipt by the operations for use in production.
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