Supply Chain Analytics Kit
- What can I learn from current sales trends to predict future demands?
- How is the day of the week, the season, temperature, or external events affecting the demand of my products?
- How can I optimise my inventory and determine a suitable threshold?
- What constitutes good supplier performance in your company?
- How can I evaluate the suppliers then do better selection?
- How to measure the whole supply chain?
- Which part of the supply chain has good performance and which need improve?
- How to determine the best location of the dispatching centre?
These are common questions and objectives that can be easily addressed with an effective and reliable analytics-based supply chain management and forecasting system. AsiaAnalytics is offering, for a limited time only, a package combining software and training that will get you ready to extract useful and actionable knowledge from your databases. The Supply Chain Analytics Kit includes all the functions needed to perform basic analyses enabling you to better understand and optimise the whole supply chain.
Furthermore, the training will give you a sound knowledge of analytical techniques that can be applied for the supply chain management, sales and demanding planning, emphasizing on the practical issues of setting up, running and interpreting the results of each types of analysis. In particular, you will learn:
- Which techniques can help you solve what kind of business issue;
- When to use each technique and how to apply them using the modules included in the Supply Chain Analytics Kit;
- The underlying assumptions and types of data required for each methodology;
- How to interpret and report the results, and convert them into actionable business recommendations.
Who should get it?
- Supply Chain and logistics professionals
- Business Analysts
- Demand Planners
- Anyone interested in the basics of Supply Chain Analytics
Detailed Course Content
Day 1
| Time | Item | IBM SPSS Statistics Module |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30-09:45 | Introduction of instructor and participants | - |
| 09:45-10:15 | Analytics for Supply Chain | |
| 10:15-10:45 | Automatic forecasting with SPSS Forecasting | Forecasting |
| 10:45-11:00 | Tea break | - |
| 11:00-12:00 | Measuring model performance | Forecasting |
| 12:00-12:30 | ARIMA models | Forecasting |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch break | - |
| 14:00-15:00 | Exponential Smoothing | Forecasting |
| 15:00-15:45 | Simple regression | Base |
| 15:45-16:00 | Tea break | - |
| 16:00-17:00 | Multiple regression | Base |
| 17:00-17:30 | Detecting Influential points and multicollinearity | Base |
| 17:30-18:00 | Q&A | - |
| 18:00' | End of Session | - |
Day 2
| Time | Item | IBM SPSS Statistics Module |
|---|---|---|
| 09:30-11:00 |
Inventory Control
|
Base |
| 11:00-11:15 | Tea break | - |
| 11:15-12:30 |
Supplier Selection Strategy
|
Base |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch break | - |
| 14:00-15:15 |
Supply Chain Performance Evaluation
|
Base |
| 15:15-15:30 | Tea break | - |
| 15:30-17:00 |
Dispatching Centre Location
|
Base |
| 17:00-17:30 | Q&A | - |
| 17:30 | End of Session | - |
Additional details
- 2 modules included: IBM SPSS Base, IBM SPSS Forecasting
- Price: RMB 18,880 (including VAT)
- Offer valid until: 30th November 2013
- Date of the training: 19th / 20th December 2013
- Location of the training: AsiaAnalytics (formerly SPSS China) – Shanghai office
- Language of the training: Mandarin Chinese
Contact person:
Ms. Teddy Xia (夏童雯)
Phone:+86 (21) 6352 3525
Email:txia@asia-analytics.com
