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Supply Chain Management

Duration: 8 Days |  Level: Intermediate

This course aims to enable participants in developing their knowledge and skills in supply chain management. The learner will gain a very broad knowledge about the fundamental evaluation criteria and procedures which should be adopted to achieve a successful supply chain.



This course is designed for supply chain managers, procurement ocers, and those who want to work in this industry.

  • Course Objectives:

    At the end of this course participants will be able to:

    • De ne supply chain management
    • Understand the cycle of supply chains
    • Plan and make the right decisions
    • Deal with inventories
    • Understand the relationship between the oil & gas industry and effective supply chains
    • Negotiate effectively for optimal results

  • Course Content

    • Materials management
    • Planning and control management
    • Logistics and transportation management
    • Negotiation skills
    • Oil & gas and supply chains

  • Day 1 - Supply Chain Management (SCM)

    • Definition and importance
    • SCM functions
    • Examples of SCM industries
    • Supply chain strategy

  • Day 2 - Materials Management

    • Activities
    • Advantages
    • PSCM
    • Items and services purchased
    • Special cases of oil & gas procurement

  • Day 3 - Planning and Control Management

    • Monitoring movements
    • Measuring and evaluation of inventory
    • Receipt and issuance of inventory
    • Systems to replenish inventory
    • BOQ
    • RCP, JIT

  • Day 4 - Logistics Management

    • Definitions and fundamentals
    • Types
    • Crude oil quality
    • Warehouse and store management

  • Day 5 - Transportation Management

    • Transportation role in supply chains
    • Types
    • Selection criteria and determinants
    • Economic, political, and geographical factors
    • Risks

  • Day 6 - Negotiation

    • Types
    • Strategies
    • Goals
    • Techniques

  • Day 7 and 8 - The Oil & Gas Industry and Supply Chains

    • Overview and Importance
    • Components
    • PUSH and PULL
    • Review all supply chain levels pertaining to the oil & gas industry

Duration: 7 Days |  Level: Intermediate

This course aims to enable the participants in developing their knowledge and skills in transportation management and planning.

The learner will understand the strategic and tactical principles, practices, and tools required to address the cost, service, capacity, and carbon emissions trade-o in domestic and international

transportation.


This course is designed for logisticians and storekeepers.

  • Course Objectives:

    At the end of this course participants will be able to:

    • Understand the relationship between transportation and the supply chain
    • Explain transportation fundamentals.
    • Identify transportation regulation and policies.
    • Determine how to optimize routes and schedules.
    • Better manage total transportation on costing and pricing.
    • Define all types of transportation.
    • Determine the challenges of transportation.
    • Understand how transportation carriers plan their operations, and how this can impact shippers.

  • Course Content

    • Transportation regulation and public policy
    • Costing and pricing for transportation
    • Transportation types
    • Challenges of transportation in supply chains

  • Programme Schedule

    Day 1

    Introduction to Transportation

    • Transportation fundamentals
    • Distribution Principles
    • Transportation in the supply chain and economy

    Day 2 and 3

    Transportation Regulation and Public Policy

    • Regulation of transportation
    • Development of regulations
    • Transportation policy
    • The importance of transportation policy

    Day 4

    Costing and Pricing for Transportation

    • Market considerations
    • Cost-of-service pricing
    • Decisions
    • Major pricing decisions
    • Pricing objectives
    • Estimating demand and cost
    • Price levels and price adjustments
    • Pricing mistakes

    Day 5

    Transportation Types

    • Major carriers
    • Railroads
    • Airlines
    • Water carriers and pipelines
    • Establishing the pricing objective

    Day 6

    Critical Transportation Management Issues

    • Risk management
    • Planning and execution
    • Third parties’ logistics’
    • Fleet management

    Day 7

    Challenges of Transportation in Supply Chains

    • Emerging conditions
    • Green supply chains
    • Shipment tracking
    • Fuel costs and consumptions
    • Transportation report card

Managing High Availability Systems

Duration: 6 days |  Level: Intermediate

This course aims to enable the participants in developing their knowledge and skills in demand operations management. The learner will gain an understanding of the strategic and tactical principles, practices, and tools required to build a successful Demand-Driven Network (DDN).


This courser is designed for logisticians, supply chain managers, procurement managers, and logistics executives.

  • Course Objectives:

    At the end of this course participants will be able to:

    • Understand an overview of supply chain management.
    • Define demand and its types.
    • Explain demand-driven supply chain operation, components, strategies, and have completed simulations.
    • Determine the main operating processes of DDSC.
    • Understand the role of technology in supporting demand-driven supply chains.
    • Understand how to develop a demand-driven supply chain strategy, and determine how this strategy integrates with corporate strategy.

  • Course Content

    • Overview of supply chain management
    • Demand-Driven Supply Chains (DDSC)
    • Core operating processes
    • Demand-driven supply chain strategy
    • Role of technology

  • Programme Schedule

    Day 1

    Overview of the Supply Chain Management

    • Definition
    • SC cycle
    • Importance

    Day 2 and 3

    Introduction to Demand-Driven Supply Chains (DDSC)

    • Demand definition and types
    • DDSC definition and components
    • Aligned strategies for DDSC
    • DDSC simulation

    Day 4

    Core Operating Processes

    • Demand sensing and forecasting
    • Demand shaping
    • Demand response and supply chain operation

    Day 5

    Demand-Driven Strategy

    • DDSC strategy
    • Integration with corporate strategy

    Day 6

    Technology

    • Definition
    • Usages
    • Role in DDSC

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