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Materials Management Best Practices -
August 25-29 San Juan, PR  
In Materials Management Best Practices you learn the tools and processes to optimize the inventory investment.
You will not only know what these are, but know how to apply them; using the skills developed in the course. Return to your job prepared to:
  • Reduce inventory and related cost
  • Implement storeroom processes that raise reliability and cut costs
  • Engage materials management in collaboration with purchasing to improve on-time delivery, purchase price variance, quality, fill rates, and more
  • Apply a work control process to create a master plan for improvement

Learn How To    
Recognize the role of MRO Stores in support of Rx
  • Managing change principles and the Excellence Model
  • The importance of leading the change effort
  • Recognizing interdepartmental partnerships
  • Reactive vs. proactive facilities
Identify sound MRO storeroom operations and best practices
  • Material tactical processes
  • Materials issues
  • Materials repair and returns
  • Materials return to stock
  • Materials kitting
  • Materials receiving
  • Inventory obsolescence review
Implement an efficient and effective work control program
  • ABC classifications
  • Obsolescence programs
  • Storeroom security
  • Part standardization
Understand the role of purchasing in support of MRO stores best practices
  • Strategic processes of purchasing
  • Supply chain management
  • Forecasting and strategic planning
  • Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Manage inventory to optimize investment
  • Bar coding
  • Physical layout
  • Materials handling
  • 5S approach
Apply tools to sustain Materials Management Best Practices
  • KPI's and benefits tracking
  • Work process development

Who Should Attend
Anyone involved in materials - directly or indirectly will find value in Materials Management Best Practices.
  • Materials managers
  • Storeroom personnel
  • Planners/schedulers
  • Engineers
  • Operations Managers

Testimonials
"What is great about this course is that the content is state-of-the-art and packaged neatly. It would take years to learn this by experience and it is not otherwise documented."
Wayne Groover, Chaparral Steel

"This was a great course which will help me better develop my work processes in the stockroom."
Bill Csuk, Wrigley Manufacturing

Life Cycle Institute 
Be prepared to be an active learner. When you invest in training with the Life Cycle Institute you will learn knowledge and skills that you will be able to apply immediately. Our courses are designed to teach by doing. Your training with the Life Cycle Institute is different because we offer:
  • Facilitators who practice what they teach and teach what they practice
  • Course content that is constantly updated with proven tools and methods
  • Adult learning methods that emphasize learning by doing
  • Classrooms that are specifically designed to facilitate learning

Course Schedule & Pricing


August 25 - 29, 2008
El Zipperle Restaurant,
Hato Rey, Puerto Rico
Register online now  
Each course includes a comprehensive active learning manual, morning and afternoon refreshments, lunch, and the use of a fully equipped e-business center. Class hours are 8:00am to 4:00pm. All students completing a class at the Life Cycle Institute will receive a certificate of completion and be awarded CEU's based on the hours in class.

Cost: $2,195                     CEU's: 3.2
Location: El Zipperle Restaurant, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico

 

Course Facilitators
Andy Gager, CPIM
Andy Gager has over 20 years experience in Operations and Materials Management with proven success in assisting organizations in achieving best in class and reliability excellence. Andy's broad experiences include industries such as medical device manufacturing, semi-conductor, automotive and heavy truck divisions. Andy specializes in warehouse configuration, inventory reduction programs, supply chain management and inventory accuracy.

Doug Wallace, APICS
Doug Wallace is a materials management expert with over 25 years of combined experience as a manager and management consultant. He has prior experience in reliability and supply chain consulting with cement and rock products, refining and specialty chemical industries. Doug is a graduate of Lafayette College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics.


Wally Wilson
Wally Wilson has over 17 years experience as a senior management team leader with three fortune 500 corporations. Wally has extensive experience in leading organizational change management by developing and implementing increased operational efficiency, maintenance reliability and materials management excellence. As a senior operations manager with Quebecor World Printing, Wally led a project to standardize gravure ink inventories for the printing process that resulted in an annual savings of $1.8 million across a seven-plant platform.