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World-Class Integrated Business Planning

Special Note

Both the in-person and online/virtual instructor-led version of this course take place over one and a half (1.5) days. If you are interested in hosting an onsite session of this course at your organization, please email us at info@scl.gatech.edu.

Please note that this course qualifies for our Georgia AI Manufacturing (GA-AIM) program discount for Georgia residents. Please see below Course Fees section for details.

Visit the course listing within the Georgia Tech Professional Education website.

Course Description

World-Class Integrated Business Planning provides a holistic view toward supply chain performance and supports effective supply chain management. You’ll learn how to handle the challenges of today’s operating environment with “Big Data,” best practices in building a cost-to-serve solution, and analytics that create actionable insights for developing smart strategies for financial improvements. Best practices will be applied in an interactive exercise using the results from the latest innovative software.

Who Should Attend

  • Chief Financial Officers, Supply Chain, Finance, Marketing or Sales Executives (Managers, Directors, VPs, EVPs)
  • Supply Chain and Logistics Managers, Consultants, Supervisors, Planners, and Engineers
  • Supply Chain Education and Human Resource Management personnel
  • Inventory Planners
  • Procurement and Sourcing Analysts and Managers
  • Transportation Planners, Managers, and Engineers

How You Will Benefit

  • Understand the steps needed to build a cost-to-serve model tailored for their company’s operating environment.
  • Champion the need for cost to serve analytics for cross-functional activities.
  • Distinguish the value of cost-to-serve analytics in developing specific strategies and measuring their impact.

What Is Covered

  • The fundamentals for building a cost-to-serve model tailored to individual company environments
  • How to apply the tailored approaches to drive sustained performance improvements
  • How to leverage Big Data techniques to quickly identify cost and profit improvement opportunities

Overview

  • The power of analytics and data
  • Typical company situation

Cost-To-Serve

  • Defining Cost-to-Serve (CTS)
  • CTS analytics tools

Net Landed Profit

  • Net Landed Profit (NLP) introduction
  • CTS and NLP resources
  • Documenting actionable strategies

Course Materials

Provided

  • Online access to course material in electronic format

Course Prerequisite and Related Certificate Information

No prerequisites. For those interested in earning the Supply and Demand Planning Certificate, take the below core courses and one elective course within four years.

  1. World Class Sales and Operations Planning
  2. World-Class Integrated Business Planning
  3. Supply Chain Risk Management

Course CEUs

This course provides for 1.05 continuing education units (CEUs).

Course Instructors

Richard Sharpe, Tami Kitajima

Course Times

On-campus version: On the first day, please check in at least 30 minutes before the class start time.
Online version: On the first day, please log in at least 15 minutes before the class start time.

  • First Day - 8:00pm to 5:00pm
  • ​Second Day - 8:00am to 12:00pm

Course Fees

Standard: $900.00, Certificate: $747.00 (cost of each course when signing up for and paying for a multi-course certificate program).

Register and pay for all required courses in a Supply Chain & Logistics certificate and receive a discount of 17% off per course. Enter coupon code SCL-Cert at checkout.

All residents of the State of Georgia are eligible for a 50% discount while funds last thanks to a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration. Use of this discount is subject to verification of GA residency. Enter coupon code SCL-GAAIM at checkout.

If you have 3 or more participants from your organization, please contact us for volume discounts. Review coupon instructions for more information.

Discounts cannot be combined. For questions, call 404-894-2343 or send us an email prior to registration.

Cancellations

If SCL/GTPE cancels a course, registrants will be notified via email or phone and will receive a full refund. SCL/GTPE is not responsible for nonrefundable plane tickets, hotel and rental car deposits, nor any other expenses incurred.

Every effort is made to present the course as advertised herein; however, circumstances may make it necessary to alter the schedule and/or presenters.

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Georgia Tech Supply Chain and
Logistics Institute
H. Milton Stewart School of
Industrial & Systems Engineering
765 Ferst Drive, NW, Suite 228
Atlanta, GA 30332
Phone: 404.894.2343