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    Supply Chain Collaboration

    Supply chain strategy is important, but in the end it is a set of ideas on paper and in people's minds. Translating strategy into tactical plans that can be executed consistently and predictably is the essence of supply chain planning excellence. Otherwise, operational uncertainty will transform into financial uncertainty and poor customer service. The purpose of this course is to provide you with the understanding, tools and methods necessary to define, develop and manage planning processes.

    Issues Targeted in this Course

    • Demand planning
    • Collaborative planning
    • Sales and operations planning
    • Customer service
    • Financial justifications

    Objectives and Benefits

    • Identify gaps between strategic decisions, tactical policies and operational capabilities
    • Learn how sales and operations planning works and fits with master scheduling
    • Integrate capacity-constrained production control rules with inventory policies to achieve a stated customer service goal
    • Discover best practice demand planning and forecasting methods
    • Learn how to drastically reduce forecast uncertainty

    Day 1: Decision Tools

    • Integrate strategic, tactical and operational decision making
    • Adopt different materials management philosophies for different circumstances
    • Illustrate when to use and when to avoid statistical forecasts 

    Day 2: Collaboration

    • Manage and reduce operational uncertainty
    • Coordinate customer service, supply capacity and inventory
    • Demonstrate how to establish collaborative business and decision processes

    James Rappold

    James Rappold has served as a supply chain consultant in the analysis and improvement of manufacturing, distribution and information systems for dozens of organizations, including BASF, Briggs & Stratton, Corning Glass Works, General Mills, IBM, Merck KGaA (Germany), Philip Morris, Procter & Gamble, Rockwell Automation, Sunoco Oil, The U.S. Air Force, Sango Ceramics in Semarang, Indonesia, and Polioles in Mexico City. He is a recipient of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award and has published articles in numerous journals such as Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Naval Research Logistics. Dr. Rappold holds a B.S. in Industrial Management and Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University.

    Pedro Rodriguez

    Pedro Rodriguez is a management consultant and instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the former director of global materials planning at Rockwell Automation based in Milwaukee, Wis.. Rodriguez has led teams in procurement, strategic sourcing, operations, materials planning, logistics, and supply chain lean six sigma in the automotive, aerospace, industrial equipment, and automation industries. He holds a B.S. in marine engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain, and M.S. degrees in both industrial engineering and business from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.