Convertas Stock Management: Forecasting & Demand Convertas
Price: QAR 11,633

    Course details

    Day 1
    Introduction to stock management

    · Supply Chain Management scope
    · Functions and objectives of supply chain management
    · Objectives of inventory planning and stock control
    · Reasons to hold inventory
    · Inventory information system considerations
    · Inventory push versus pull systems
    · Identifying inventory costs
    · Customer service in inventory management
    Description and classification of inventory
    · Types of inventory
    · The inventory ABC classification ranking model
    · Uses of the ABC ranking
     
    Day 2
    Forecasting demand and lead time

    · The inventory order cycle
    · Dependent versus independent demand
    · Factors affecting demand
    · Factors impacting demand forecast accuracy
    · Demand patterns
    · Time series forecasting methods:
                    > Seasonal demand
                    > Moving average
                    > Exponential smoothing
    · Measuring the accuracy of the forecast
    · Setting lead time and methods to control it
     
    Day 3
    Inventory costs

    · Inventory cost elements
                    > Cost of item
                    > Purchasing cost
                    > Carrying or holding cost
                    > Stock-out cost
    Inventory systems
    · The Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) model
    · Dealing with quantity discounts
    · Objectives of safety stocks
    · Setting safety stocks
    · Determining the Reorder Point (ROP)
     
      Updated on 16 May, 2024

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