Basic training in MRP II / ERP (back)
- Contents: Inventory management.
Material requirements planning (MRP). Exercise. Required information and parameterization;
Manufacturing resource planning (MRP II / ERP) and its main modules. MRP II / ERP systems
implementation
- Aimed public: Steering committee
and MRP II / ERP implementation project team members; manufacturing consultants.
- Duration: 1 day
Advanced training in MRP II / ERP (back)
- Contents: Inventory management.
Material requirements planning (MRP). Exercise. Required information and parameterization.
Manufacturing resources planning (MRP II / ERP) and its modules. Master production
schedule (MPS). Guided workshop. MRP II / ERP systems implementation.
- Aimed public: Steering committee
and MRP II / ERP implementation project team members; manufacturing consultants.
- Duration: 2 days
POLITRON
- simulating the operation of MRP II / ERP (back)
- Aimed public: Steering committee
and MRP II / ERP implementation project teams; manufacturing consultants; MRP II software
development team members.
- Duration: 2 days
Basics -
Basics of Supply Chain management (CPIM / APICS) (back)
- Contents: APICS CPIM
certification program module. General concepts to customer expectations satisfaction.
Customer demand management. Transformation process management applied to satisfy demand.
Supply chain management to support transformation process.
- Aimed public: Professionals
interested in becoming qualified in the APICS CPIM certification exams.
- Duration: 4 days
IM -
Inventory Management (CPIM / APICS) (back)
- Contents: APICS CPIM
certification program module. Customer service. Inventory investment. Manufacturing,
purchasing and distribution operations. Profitability. Return on investment.
- Aimed public: Professionals
interested in becoming qualified in the APICS CPIM certification exams.
- Duration: 4 days
JIT -
Just-in-Time (CPIM / APICS) (back)
- Contents: APICS CPIM
certification program module. Organizational structure. Responsibility, compensation and
flexibility. Integration and simplification. Layout, setup, use and selection of
equipments. Warehouse and materials flow. Vendor relationship. Costing. Transport and
distribution. Performance measures and control.
- Aimed public: Professionals
interested in becoming qualified in the APICS CPIM certification exams.
- Duration: 4 days
MP - Master
Planning (CPIM / APICS) (back)
- Contents: APICS CPIM
certification program module. Forecasting. Order service management. Sales and operations
planning. Master production planning.
- Aimed public: Professionals
interested in becoming qualified in the APICS CPIM certification exams.
- Duration: 4 days
M&CRP
- Material and Capacity Planning (CPIM / APICS) (back)
- Contents: APICS CPIM
certification program module. Dependent demand material requirements planning. Net
requirements planning. Period by period net requirements planning. Productive capacity
requirements planning. Productve capacity measures. Productive capacity adjustments.
- Aimed public: Professionals
interested in becoming qualified in the APICS CPIM certification exams.
- Duration: 4 days
PAC -
Production Activity Control (CPIM / APICS) (back)
- Contents: APICS CPIM
certification program module. Short term capacity control. Production priorities control.
Sequencing and dispatching. Lead times management. Vendor interface. Reports and control
and performance measures.
- Aimed public: Professionals
interested in becoming qualified in the APICS CPIM certification exams.
- Duration: 4 days
S&T
- Systems and Technology (CPIM / APICS) (back)
- Contents: APICS CPIM
certification program module. Strategic questions and choices that affect inventory and
production management. Inventory and production management configuration and integration.
Systems and technologies management and implementation. Organizational performance
measures.
- Aimed public: Professionals
interested in becoming qualified in the APICS CPIM certification exams.
- Duration: 4 days
Training in support to MRP II / ERP implementation (back)
- Contents: Introduction to the
implementation process. Guided workshop. Requirements for a sucessful implementation.
Implementation training and education. Process main traps. Case studies.
- Aimed public: Steering committee
and MRP II / ERP implementation project team members.
- Duration: 1 day
Seminar in support to the selection of the MRP II / ERP software (back)
- Contents: Inventory management.
Material requirements planning - MRP. Exercise. Required information and parameterization.
Manufacturing resources planning - MRP II / ERP and its main modules. MRP II / ERP systems
implementation.
- Aimed public: Steering committee
and MRP II / ERP implementation project team members; manufacturing consultants.
- Duration: 1 day
Top management MRP II / ERP seminar (back)
- Contents: The strategic role of
manufacturing planning and control systems; what to expect from them. Manufacturing
resources integrated management systems - MRP II / ERP and its main modules: S&OP,
MPS, MRP, CRP and SFC. Advantages and limitations of MRP II / ERP. The importance of the
implementation process. Guided workshop.
- Aimed public: Top management in
general
- Duration: 4 hours
Discrete production planning and control systems (back)
- Contents: What the organization
needs / can get from the manufacturing planning and control systems. Analysis of the
impact of such systems on the main manufacturing competitive criteria. MRP II / ERP
systems. Advantages and disadvantages of MRP II. Application exercise - case study. JIT
(just-in-time) system - philosophy. JIT design. JIT supply. Interface with TQC (total
quality control). Kanban. Advantages and disadvantages of JIT. Production finite
scheduling systems. Sequencing rules and simulation. OPT (Optimized Production Technology)
systems. Advantages and disadvantages of production finite scheduling systems and OPT.
Systems suitability analysis for a specific production unit. Production management systems
implementation. Exercise.
- Aimed public: Production
management consultants; production management staff; top and middle production management
- Duration: 1, 2 or 3 days
Manufacturing strategic focus analysis (back)
- Contents: Manufacturing role in
the guarantee of competitive advantage. Manufacturing strategic objectives analysis:
quality, speed, delivery, flexibility and costs. Order winners and qualifiers. Competitive
criteria positive and negative relationships. Operations segmentation to mantain
operational focus: marketing segmentation versus manufacturing segmentation; Focus
analysis of a production unit and the good use of the plant within a plant concept.
Application case study.
- Aimed public: Directors, top and
middle management, not necessarily from manufacturing; technical staff; manufacturing
consultants
- Duration: 2 days
Manufacturing diagnostics to support strategic realignment (back)
- Contents: Manufacturing
strategic importance to the organization's goals. Manufacturing strategic objectives
analysis: quality, speed, delivery, flexibility and costs. Operations focus analysis.
Manufacturing and marketing strategies alignment analysis. Benchmarking to support
manufacturing strategic analysis.
- Aimed public: Directors; top and
middle management; manufacturing consultants
- Duration: 2 days
Manufacturing strategies formulation and reformulation (back)
- Contents: Manufacturing
strategic importance to the organization's goals. Manufacturing strategic objectives
analysis. Order winners and qualifiers. Manufacturing and marketing strategies alignment.
Manufacturing strategies formulation. Case study.
- Aimed public: Directors; top and
middle management; technical staff; manufacturing consultants.
- Duration: 2 days
Flexibility in manufacturing systems (advanced) (back)
- Contents: Manufacturing
flexibility and unplanned change control. Flexibility requirements for a specific
manufacturing system. Current flexibility level evaluation. Definition of action
priorities for flexibility improvement.Flexible manufacturing systems.
- Aimed public: Manufacturing top
and middle management; manufacturing technical staff; manufacturing consultants.
- Duration: 1 or 2 days, according
to the customer's requirements
Operations and production management (back)
- Contents: According to the
customer's requirements
- Aimed public: According to
customer's requirements
- Duration: According to the
customer's requirements
Supply Chain Management (back)
- Contents: Supply chain
strategies. Internal chain - internal customers and suppliers. Imediate chain - external
customers and suppliers relationship. Global chain: architecture and management. ERPs and
their management. Brazilian cases. International supply chains and global sourcing. Case
study.
- Aimed public: Logistics area
related professionals: production, materials and distribution supply, planning and
control; supply chain and logistics consultants; manufacturing and service top and middle
management.
- Duration: 1 day
Service operations design and management (back)
- Contents: Market segmentation:
focusing on the right service to the right customer. Service and service systems design
focusing on the customer and assuring the right perfomance levels on what the customer
values most. Service process variables. How to manage service operations capacity and
demand. Managing queues in service. Managing quality in service operations.
- Aimed public: Directors; top and
middle management; operations management consultants.
- Duration: 2 days
Service
quality (back)
- Contents: Service consumers
characteristics. How the customers evaluate service quality. Service quality dimensions.
Influencing customers expectations and perception about the service. Tools to ensure
quality (5-gap model; service process flow, fool proof tools). How to satisfy the customer
with quality. Case study.
- Aimed public: Directors; top and
middle management; supervisors; operations management consultants
- Duration: 2 days
Service operations diagnostic to strategic realignment (back)
- Contents: Operations focus
evaluation: marketing versus operations segmentation. Service operations strategic
objectives analysis. Order winners and qualifiers. The service cycle and the service
process flow. Developing improvement action plans. Case study.
- Aimed public: Directors; top and
middle management; operations management consultants
- Duration:
2 days
Sales
forecasting & management (back)
- Contents: Sales forecasting
strategic importance. Statistical methods to different time horizons. Historical trends
projection. Causal models. Enterprise sales forecasting system. System structure.
Forecasting control. Exercise
- Aimed public: Middle management
from sales, planning, production and marketing areas
- Duration: 1 or 2 days, according
to customer's requirements
Market analysis for enterprise creation or expansion (back)
- Contents: Product, market and
market mix. New product identification and strategic selection. New manufacturing plant
size. New manufacturing plant localization: models to minimize costs and operations
research for multi-plants, government incentives, etc; scope and market volume of the new
manufacturing plant; exercise.
- Aimed public: Top and middle
management; marketing and strategic planning areas staff
- Duration: 2 days
Project management - basic (back)
- Contents: Project taken as
divisible whole: phases, modules, activities, tasks, etc. The use of WBS-work breakdown
structure. Human, physical and financial resources and execution times estimation. Gantt
chart and PERT network. Project planning and financial management. Project planning and
management softwares. Project team building and management. Exercise.
- Aimed public: Project managers;
middle management; manufacturing and service firms professionals interested in project
management
- Duration: 1 day
Project management - advanced (back)
- Contents: The program is based
on a case study, where attendants are asked to perform all the project development,
planning and controlling process, using a project management software. The program content
is identical to the previous program.
- Aimed public: Project managers;
middle management; manufacturing and service firms professionals interested in project
management
- Duration: 2 days
Enterprise viability analysis (back)
- Contents: Viability analysis:
financial simulation model. Projected cash flow. Parameters. Risk and profitability
indicators: Net Present Value, Return, Break even, Pay-back period, etc. National and
international funding agencies: funding development, resources obtention process. Capital
growing cost on the selection of multiple investments. Case study.
- Aimed public: Directors,
managers and planning and financial areas staff.
- Duration: 1 or 2 days, according
to the customer's requirements.
