Strategic Supply Stream - Developing perspective- C-TPAT, ISA, Trusted Trader SRM/SSRM

Learning Objectives:

• Building a supply stream profile
• Identifying supply stream flow restrictors (risk assessment).
• How to apply C-TPAT elements to your business to determine what works for you.
• Examples of how to assimilate government mandated compliance requirements with profit yielding supplier management elements.
• Learn how to manage risk toward forward momentum.
• Why and how to us Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) as a measurement of the Supply Stream.

Areas Covered:

• Brief history of global trade
• Risk management and security in the supply stream
• Technology in the supply stream.
• Concept of supply chain/supply stream post 9-11.
• C-TPAT/ISA/Trusted Trader initiatives and why they are a positive tool.
• Overview of Supplier and Strategic Supplier Relationship Management (SRM/SSRM)
• Process transparency and Shipping Event Management tools (EM/SEM).
• Evolution of best practices in supply stream costing.
• Supply stream core value triangle
• The future of global supply stream management

Who will Benefit:

Those who would benefit from this knowledge are all professionals who work in the supply stream organization, which includes:

• CEO, CFO, CIO
• Purchasing/Procurement
• Engineering
• Process Control
• Manufacturing
• Quality
• Safety/Environmental
• Logistics
• Warehousing
• Transportation
• Import/Export
• Freight
• Shipping

Topic Background:

The concept of supply chain changed forever on September 11, 2001. The entire encyclopedia of knowledge regarding the priorities of supply chain had to be rewritten. Things would never be the same again. Security took on a new urgency never before imagined. As a result of those events, the entire industrialized world has been pressed to adopt what is now the maelstrom of this new global supply chain. Almost immediately the conversation turned toward finding ways to hardened our supply chain so that it is less vulnerable to negative forces. To the threats of terrorism have now been added open seas piracy, and the ever present threats of natural disasters, port delays, transportation capacity, resource limitations, and the list goes on. And to undermine any trust that may remain, there is the ever moving target of “E” terrorism. This newest threat of losing an entire trove of intellectual property is as real now as a ticking bomb.

We hear new terminologies to describe negative phenomenon in the supply chain. Terminologies like value leakage and supply chain fractures. These may be pointing to a condition that is less favorable than many realize. These kinds of descriptive assessments may indicate that the current vision of the supply chain has become too inflexible. In an effort to make our supply lines less vulnerable and more robust, we may be tempering too much rigidity into their construction.

It may be time to challenge our perspective of the flow element of logistics. A hardened supply chain is inherently more susceptible to exterior traumatic forces than a more pliable supply stream. It may be time to propose that the “supply chain” be looked upon now as the “supply stream”. In the constant flux of modern global trade, the traditional straight line to connect two points may result in abject failure.