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This hands-on Working Conference will show you step-by-step how to successfully plan major investments in capacity and facilities. You will learn proven methods that integrate the five components of every supply chain facility -- layout, handling, communications, utilities, and building design.
Working "top-down" and "outside-in" you will learn and experience the practice of systematic planning. Case exercises and teamwork assure your mastery of the material. Specific techniques are presented for estimating space and capacity required, evaluating automation, and for linking your facilities plans to those of your business and supply chain. The methods presented can be put to immediate use on your current or next planning project. They are equally useful for inbound logistics, finished goods distribution, transportation, assembly & configuration, service centers; captive, or contract and third-party, and for consolidation and re-purposing in addition to expansion or new construction.
Participants will learn:
Your course manual includes a set of practical working forms and electronic templates for immediate application on your current or next strategic planning project. And in addition to your course manual, you will also receive Systematic Planning of Industrial Facilities, Volume I, by Richard Muther and Lee Hales. This text provides you with a complete, step-by-step methodology, with application examples and a wall chart.
"An exceptional way to organize detailed information and submit plans for approval, showing that all bases have been touched."
Manager in a Japanese consumer electronics company.
"This course provides not only tools for layout planning, but systematic project approaches to have a successful, well though-out presentation of many projects."
Planner in a global pharmaceutical company.
"This course gave me a method to better concentrate on the most important 15% to 20% of the issues on the table."
Company owner
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