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Management - in Senior Manager's
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Theme
Materials management is a performance
critical and challenging area of
operations. It has gained prominence in
past few years in spend as well as its
contribution to business success. Over
past two decades overwhelming majority
of the materials department have shed
numbers, though the executive job
profiles kept on improving.
Best of the materials/ purchasing
managers learn the ropes on the job and
usually are product of the work
environment and personal resource. The
managers have sharp understanding of the
practice and the technicalities
developed by hands on experience. They
have acquired relevant skills and
knowledge by specialized training or by
sheer dint of their personal effort.
The management thought and process has
its own power acquired by collective
experience, make-overs and constant
refining over the past century. It
provides a very meaningful framework for
planning, people management and result
oriented control. It is widely accepted
facts that, even the IT systems
complement good management rather than
the other way round. In-depth
appreciation of frame work of management
process combined with the matured
experiential knowledge of materials
function can be a potent mix for
excellence in this area of performance.
Materials managers with experience of
decade or more have an opportunity of
developing the management perspective of
their function through this program
package. This is designed to help them
polish and refine their understanding of
their current charge and handling of it.
The program should help the senior
managers re-appraise their performance
and opt for a makeover for a higher
benchmark of effectiveness. The program
deals with the process of management in
context of Planning, Organizing and
Controlling in context of materials
management.
The program would cover management
context of Japanese, American and Indian
philosophies against the universal
framework of management theory and
practice. The entire program is designed
to deliver the content through case
situations with demonstrative
interactive pedagogy.
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Program
Schedule: Day 1: 9-00AM to
5-15PM+ |
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Introduction
Participants and faculty
introduce themselves and issues
of participants interest are
listed
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Scope and
current trends
Materials management activities
– out sourcing and associated
changes in management – bottom
of the price based competition –
diminishing gap between the
local and global competitiveness
– legacy of quality revolution –
IT enabled MM and its potential
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Organization and roles
Fundamentals of organization –
essentials of job profile – true
decentralization – changed
profile of the work as well as
the manager – leadership styles
and issues – true MBO – the MM
role in context of the
organization
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Exercise on
accountability – The buck stops
here |
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Managing
productivity
What is the optimum size of the
team – effectiveness and
efficiency - the drivers of
productivity - boss, base and
system – decision making and
risk - leadership issues of
freedom in perspective – native
competence – visible and
invisible enablers in the system
– critical issues for
productivity
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Q & A |
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Budgeting
for performance
Fundamentals of planning – the
process and decision hierarchy –
working for present achievement
and future improvement – line
output and projects – objectives
and programs – planning as a
continuous process – important
tenets of planning
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Decisions
and delegation
Not everything is delegated –
delegation defined – a model for
structured delegation and
practical tools of
implementation – looking beyond
price – only transparency
controls – salient basics of
decisions about deployment of
team, contracting for supply and
service, selecting a supplier,
setting operating standards,
commercial dispute.
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Case of
reverse auction and philosophies
of negotiation |
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Building
blocks of management control
Budgets, standards and
references – quality of
reporting – issues of suppliers
performance – internal audits –
intractable irritants – limits
of service – persuasion for
deviation – basic principles of
result oriented control
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Q & A |
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Supply Chain
Management for Top Managers |
Supply Chain
Management – Concepts and Application
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Best Practice
Inventory Management |
Toolkit of a
Purchasing Executive |
Materials
Management - In Senior Manager's
Perspective |
Cost Management in
Supply Chain – techniques & strategies
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Essentials of
Modern Storekeeping Management | Technology
Management – the basics workshop |
Scientific Spare
Parts Management for maintenance |
Science & Art of
Negotiations for Industrial Buyers &
Sellers |
Competent
Industrial Purchasing - How to build and
run the
purchasing function |
Calculated Price
Negotiations |
International
Logistics for Import and Export |
Basics of Law and
Indirect Taxes
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