Project Management for Supply Chain Professionals

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Project Management for Supply Chain Professionals Course
Introduction:
Supply Management involves managing relationships, information, and material flow across organizational boundaries to provide better customer service and economic value. It requires coordinating and integrating these flows through a structured approach that encompasses work activities, inputs, outputs, and action. Similarly, Project Management is a structured process that manages workflow in a specific order across time and place. Recognizing the similarities between these two processes, this course focuses on integrating project management principles into supply management. Participants will learn how project management concepts can enhance supply management and gain knowledge of tools and techniques for initiating, executing, managing, and controlling projects. The course will also emphasize potential initiatives for improving supply management through the application of project management concepts.
Course Objectives:
At the end of this course the participants will be able to:
- Organize, plan, launch, track, and close a project
- Create a clear project objective and work breakdown structure
- Master project planning, execution, and control skills
- Identify the skills necessary to lead or serve on a project team
- Utilize project management related techniques
- Create an accurate project timeline
- Incorporate uncertainties in project time and cost plans
- Use various project scheduling techniques
- Plan a project balancing the constraints of scope, time, cost, and quality
- Complete project cost estimation and financial evaluations
- Build and maintain effective and efficient project procedures and processes
- Identify improvement opportunities to better manage supply chains
Who Should Attend?
This program is suitable for:
- Project Management
- Project Planning and Monitoring
- Project Scheduling and Budgeting
- Risk Management Planning
- Team Building
- Relationship Management
- Principled Negotiations
- Trend Analysis and Forecasting
- Project Reporting
- Change Management
Course Outlines:
Setting Up the Scene
- Project management terminology and life-cycle project phases
- Overview of the Project Management Process
- Key areas of Project Management Body of Knowledge
- Supply management and project management: similarities and differences
- Types of integration
- Impact of early decisions on project success
- Classical project phases
- Project scope – parameters & constraints
- The concept of Value-for-Money project delivery
- The project supply chain
The Project Environment – Objective Parameters
- Opportunities and Problems
- Identifying, analyzing and managing project stakeholders
- Project Charter Development
- Beyond SMART Objectives
- Introduction to project planning
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Task characteristics and duration assessment
- Planning and scheduling methods, including critical path scheduling
- The importance of schedule updating
- Incorporating planning in planning and scheduling
- Principles of project estimating
- Understanding resource estimating in projects
- Cost estimation techniques
- Implementing cost control
- Contingency and escalation
The Project Environment – Subjective Parameters
- Project quality and reliability issues
- Project information management
- Project communication management
- Project risk management
- Risk vs. uncertainty
- Risk mitigation strategies
- Contingency planning
- Performance measures and indicators
- Project process maturity
- Root cause analysis
Effective Project Relationships Management
- Suppliers/contractors selection
- Project manager skills
- Building and sustaining professional relationships
- Trust and trust-building
- Principled negotiations
- Leadership skills
- Dealing with professional disagreements
Project Execution and Closure
- Change control processes
- Identifying measurements of project success
- Project monitoring
- Integrating project scope, time and cost
- Leading and lagging indicators
- Project plan update
- Project reporting: to whom and to what level?
- Closing and evaluating the project
- Project success factors
- Application of lessons learned