In today’s highly competitive business world, one place where many companies fall short in cutting costs, eliminating waste, and maximizing profits is in supply chain management. But statistics show that focusing just a little more attention here can make dramatic differences in the health of the corporate bottom line.

That’s Why We’ve Developed This Powerful 2-Day Supply Chain Management Progam
This seminar is for success-minded business professionals just like you who want proven (and profitable) strategies for finding business allies within their supply chains, and techniques for aggressively pinpointing ways to reduce their supply chain costs.

We Have the Solutions You Don’t Have Time to Research Yourself
We understand the enormous demands placed on your time. Your job doesn’t end at 5:00 when you go home. Yours is a 24/7 effort that requires both a short-term focus on the day-to-day challenges of controlling your company’s supply chain, but still keeping an eye on the long-term financial health of your organization. In the meantime, you’re being pulled in 100 different directions by every department in your company. And if just one little thing goes wrong in your supply chain and production is stopped or orders don’t get filled – it all comes down on your head.

That’s why you need to attend this seminar. We’ve researched the best practices of supply chain management across the globe and have boiled down several weeks’ worth of information into two fast-paced and highly interactive days of training that previous supply chain professionals swear by. In other words, we’ve done all the leg work for you!

Gain Expert Insight Into the Challenges of Supply Chain Management
This training session will be taught by a true supply chain management expert with years of experience in the real world. Whether you’re learning about building better vendor relationships, strategic production scheduling, or even the technology that’s radically altering the way other supply chain professionals do their work, you’ll gain proven and practical solutions to your problems – not useless pie-in-the-sky theory from someone who has never set foot inside a warehouse or manufacturing plant.

You’ll learn about the economics of supply chain management and how it affects your company … effective materials management … improving inventory record accuracy … and even universal management skills like negotiating, motivating, and getting everyone up and down the “chain” involved.

Don’t Wait – Register Today!
But there’s one universal truth to improving supply chain management that applies no matter what size your company is or what industry you’re in – you can’t get better unless you get the best training available! And that training begins and ends with this workshop! Don’t wait while your profits slip through the cracks in your processes – enroll today!

• How to determine if your vendors are truly giving you what you need
• Evaluating delivery, quality, price, and service
• Getting what you want from a vendor who is difficult to work with
• Using alternative sourcing as your ace in the hole when negotiating
• Obtaining higher quality at a lower price
• 4 ways to evaluate prospective vendors

• How the Internet is affecting supply chain management – and what’s yet to come
• Weighing the risks of new technology for your company before you make the leap of buying it
• Traditional vs. Internet business and supply chain management’s role in both
• How spot markets and contracts can be combined to lower your procurement costs

• How to structure contracts so both sides win
• Selecting the legally correct language to protect yourself and resolve disputes
• If you forget to put an important term into your contract, will the UCC's Gap Filler Rules help you out? Find out here
• A comprehensive list of potential things you should negotiate for with your vendors/suppliers
• Foolproof strategies that will make you sound like a master negotiator
• An invaluable checklist of contract terms and conditions you'll want to cover in any purchasing agreement

• Why transportation is the most overlooked piece of the supply chain process
• The changing face of transportation – both locally and globally
• Using logistics and transportation to boost the overall supply chain value
• Factors you must consider when deciding on outsourcing a transportation service
• Tactical issues every supply chain professional must overcome

• Gain insight into the evolving place of the warehouse in the supply chain
• Turning your warehouse into a true revenue-generating profit center
• Recognize – and eliminate – system procedures that are “planned failures”
• How to gain nearly 100 percent inventory record accuracy
• How much inventory should you be holding? Find out here

• Which supply disruptions your company could survive – and which ones it couldn’t
• Creating a targeted strategy that mitigates disastrous supply risks
• How to clearly quantify the risks so that others outside your supply chain understand
• The keys to successful capacity scheduling

• Identifying key competencies and weaknesses across your supply chain
• Understanding the principles of Activity-Based Cost Management (ABC)
• How to accurately determine the true costs of your processes and the savings gained from process simplification
• Identifying the appropriate factors you must include in your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
• Implementing your total cost management plan within your organization

• How to cope with supply (and demand) uncertainty
• 5 ways to improve customer response time anyone can implement
• Minimizing the impact of shortages and backorders on your customers
• Building flexibility into your supply chain process
• How to use your vendor relationships to create a more effective fulfillment process

SPECIAL BONUS - Is RFID In Your Future?
For years, supply chain management professionals have heard about Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and its role as the Holy Grail of inventory control. To listen to some people talk, RFID will not only eliminate every inventory problem you’ll ever have, but it will cure baldness, bad breath, the common cold, and makes a terrific pizza topping! For most business pros, it’s hard to separate the facts from the hype.

That’s where we come in. During this bonus session of the supply chain workshop, we’ll turn our objective eye towards RFID and discuss what it can – and what it can’t – do for your company. You’ll discover how this cutting-edge technology works … the differences between active and passive tags and data storage potential. When you’re done, you’ll be able to measure the return on investment your company can realize and make sound business decisions based on facts – not sales hype!