Inventory Matters provides a range of short courses that help companies improve their operational thinking and execution.

Course Format, Delivery and Cost

• Trained by experienced, industry professionals with extensive consultancy background and subject expertise.
• Small group seminars include theoretical background, discussion, and practical application through case study examples and exercises.
• 2 day duration.
• In-company courses: Tailored to meet specific company objectives. Price depends on number of delegates and degree of customisation. Please enquire.
• Public courses: Open to all. £375 + VAT per delegate per course.

Learn By Doing
At Inventory Matters, we believe you learn best by doing. While some element of "chalk and talk" is unavoidable, in all of our courses we spend at least 50% of our time doing examples and exercises.

Embedded Training
In addition to our short courses, Inventory Matters offers a unique follow-up programme to help you capitalise on your training investment. This includes:

• In-company facilitation workshops
• Consultation and assistance to help your team put their new knowledge to work via a practical project, and
• Project monitoring.

Price on application.

For most companies, supply chain costs represent more than half of total product cost and inventory value is measured in millions, if not billions, of pounds.

In blunt terms: The supply chain goes beyond the company alone to encompass worldwide networks, multiple disciplines and many new technologies.

Clearly, managing the supply chain effectively is a key activity in the battle to cut costs and boost profits.

Objectives, Outcomes and Benefits
This course covers:

• The key elements of the supply chain and how they interact with each other
• Reinforced with practical examples of best practice in action, and
• Practical exercises.

Delegates will take away a toolbox of proven techniques that will help them implement best practice in their own supply chains.

Who will benefit?
This course is for supply chain professionals from all sectors who are responsible for supply chain planning and implementation.

Do you want to improve the way you manage your supply chain?

Effective operations management is all about getting maximum outputs from minimum inputs.

In other words: More and better quality production using less material, equipment and money; and fewer people.

Objectives, Outcomes and Benefits
This course covers the background and essentials of operations management in both a manufacturing and service context, including:

• Strategy, planning and execution
• Reinforced with practical examples of best practice in action, and
• Practical demonstrations and exercises.

Delegates will take away a toolbox of proven techniques that will help them identify, measure and implement best practice in their operations.

Who will benefit?
This course is for operations managers from all sectors.

Do you want to improve the way you manage your operations?

Whether your business is manufacturing or providing services, both your survival and profitability depend on continuous improvement.

In the 70s, the model was Cost + Profit = Price; and demand exceeded supply. In the 80s, it was Price - Cost = Profit; and margins were squeezed by cheap imports. By the 90s, the model was transformed to its current form: Price - Profit = Cost; and organisations must eliminate waste in all its forms to survive.

Objectives, Outcomes and Benefits
This course covers:

• Why lean is important
• Eliminating waste and adding value, plus
• Planning, implementing and measuring lean improvements
• Reinforced with practical examples of lean in action, and
• Practical exercises.

Delegates will take away a toolbox of lean techniques that will help them eliminate waste in their own companies.

Who will benefit?
This course is for operations and manufacturing professionals who must initiate, lead or reinvigorate improvement programmes.

Do you want to make your operation more lean?

MRP and ERP are often considered the two most intimidating three letter acronyms in business. As a result, many companies are not getting all they should out of their MRP and ERP systems.

This concentrated course explains the basic principles and logic of MRP and ERP, then moves on to best practice in an MRP/ERP environment.

Objectives, Outcomes and Benefits
This course covers:

• The key elements MRP, MRPII and ERP systems
• MRP fundamentals, including Bills of Material, parameters and compliance
• Co-existence of MRP and JIT
• Benchmarking and managing improvements in MRP/ERP systems
• Reinforced with practical examples of best practice in action, and
• Practical exercises.

Delegates will take away a toolbox of techniques that will help them implement best practice in their own MRP/ERP environments.

Who will benefit?
This course is for planners and operations managers who are not getting the most out of their MRP/ERP systems.

Do you want to make your MRP system run more effectively?

This course will provide a detailed understanding of how to manage, plan and control inventory.

Objectives, Outcomes and Benefits
This course covers:

• The different functions and interplay between inventory management, inventory planning and inventory control
• Key inventory management techniques, including ABC, RRS, criticality matrix and K-curve
• Overage, excess and surplus inventory, and
• Inventory control strategies.

Delegates will take away a toolbox of techniques that will help them implement best practice in inventory management.

Who will benefit?
This course is for inventory management professionals, planners and MRP users from all sectors.

Do you want to optimise your inventory?