COURSE DESCRIPTION

This hands-on Working Conference will show you step-by-step how to successfully plan major investments in capacity and facilities. You will learn proven methods that integrate the five components of every supply chain facility -- layout, handling, communications, utilities, and building design.

Working "top-down" and "outside-in" you will learn and experience the practice of systematic planning. Case exercises and teamwork assure your mastery of the material. Specific techniques are presented for estimating space and capacity required, evaluating automation, and for linking your facilities plans to those of your business and supply chain. The methods presented can be put to immediate use on your current or next planning project. They are equally useful for inbound logistics, finished goods distribution, transportation, assembly & configuration, service centers; captive, or contract and third-party, and for consolidation and re-purposing in addition to expansion or new construction.

HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT

Participants will learn:

• To maximize the strategic value and flexibility of your supply chain facilities — land and buildings, machinery and equipment.
• To improve the link between supply chain strategy and facilities plans.
• To improve and speed up the planning of major rearrangements and expansions
• To save time and prevent oversights when making major changes or investments in capacity and facilities.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Senior Executives
• Plant and Distribution Center Managers
• Supply Chain Directors and Managers
• Industrial and Plant engineers

WHAT IS COVERED

Day 1 (8:00 AM - 5:00PM)

• Facilities & Supply Chain Strategy
• Supply Chain Network Design
• Site Location & Selection
• Systematic Layout Planning
• Case Exercise in Facility Layout
• Systematic Handling Analysis

Day 2 (8:00 AM - 5:00 PM)

• Systematic Planning of Industrial Facilities
• Integrating the Major Components of an Industrial Facility
• Estimating Capacity and Space Requirements
• Master Site Planning
• Case Exercise: Planning a new Greenfield Facility

Day 3 (8:00 AM - 5:00 PM)

• Team Presentations & Evaluation of Alternative Plans
• Key Decisions for Distribution and Logistics Facilities
• Guided Applications of Systematic Planning
  • Team discussion: Apply what you have learned to the planning of new a distribution center.
  • Team discussion: Apply what you have learned to setting up an off-shore facility.

Day 4 (8:00 AM - 3:30 PM)

• Guided Applications of Systematic Planning Continued
• Evaluation of Alternative Plans
• Case Studies: Strategic & Systematic Planning in Action
• Organizing & Managing for Strategic Facilities Planning

ON-CAMPUS COURSE MATERIALS

Your course manual includes a set of practical working forms and electronic templates for immediate application on your current or next strategic planning project. And in addition to your course manual, you will also receive Systematic Planning of Industrial Facilities, Volume I, by Richard Muther and Lee Hales. This text provides you with a complete, step-by-step methodology, with application examples and a wall chart.

WHAT PREVIOUS ATTENDEES HAVE SAID

"An exceptional way to organize detailed information and submit plans for approval, showing that all bases have been touched."
Manager in a Japanese consumer electronics company.

"This course provides not only tools for layout planning, but systematic project approaches to have a successful, well though-out presentation of many projects."
Planner in a global pharmaceutical company.

"This course gave me a method to better concentrate on the most important 15% to 20% of the issues on the table."
Company owner

COURSE PREREQUISITES

None.