Dr. Frazelle explains the definition and development of supply chain logistics and its proper role in business and competitive strategy. Key concepts include a common language of logistics, a framework for supply chain decision making, and supply chain logistics optimization. Dr. Frazelle also shares the RightChain™ Framework for supply chain development; responsible for more than $5 billion in profit improvement and the guidance for supply chain decision making in some of the world's most successful supply chain organizations.

OUTLINE

1. THE POWER OF A COMMON LOGISTICS LANGUAGE
1.1 Logistics and the Golden Gate Bridge
1.2 A Desperate Need for Supply Chain Education
1.3 Logistics and the Tower of Babel

2. KEY SUPPLY CHAIN DEFINITIONS
2.1 Logistics
2.2 Customer Service Logistics
2.3 Inventory Logistics
2.4 Supply Logistics
2.5 Transportation Logistics
2.6 Warehousing Logistics
2.7 Supply Chain
2.8 Supply Chain Logistics

3. SUPPLY CHAIN OPTIMIZATION
3.1 Don’t Philosophize. Optimize.
3.2 The Role and Theory of Constraints in Supply Chain Logistics
3.3 A Picture of Logistics Optimization
3.4 Logistics Optimization, Objectives, and Constraints
3.5 What would MOM do?

4. RightChain™
4.1 What is Right in RightChain™?
4.2 From Wrong Chain to RightChain™
4.3 RightChain™ Framework

5. VIDEOS
5.1 When is Logistics Too Efficient?
5.2 BP's Supply Chain Project Jericho
5.3 Supply Chain Logistics & Tradeoffs

WHAT'S INCLUDED
1. Lecture Presentation
2. Presentation Slides
3. Course Reading
4. Learning Assessment
5. Practice Assessment
6. Course Completion Certificate
7. Reference Slides

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Dr. Ed Frazelle is one of the world's foremost authorities on supply chain strategy. He is President and CEO of Logistics Resources International and Founder of RightChain™ Institute. Logistics Resources International is a global supply chain consulting firm with teams in Atlanta, USA; Tokyo, JAPAN; Sydney, AUSTRALIA; Lima, PERU; and San Jose, COSTA RICA. RightChain™ is a supply chain development methodology guiding the supply chains of many of the world's most successful supply chain organizations including Honda, Disney, Coca-Cola, Hallmark, Pratt & Whitney, Hamilton Sundstrand, among many others. Dr. Frazelle's books on supply chain management - Supply Chain Strategy, Inventory Strategy, and World-Class Warehousing - are best sellers and have been translated into seven languages. Dr. Frazelle founded The Logistics Institute at Georgia Tech and has lectured at Cornell, Northwestern, the National University of Singapore, and Waseda University.
 

ABOUT RightChain™ Institute
RightChain™ Institute provides supply chain professionals with the world’s most effective, objective, and practical supply chain education. Successfully offered for more than 20 years, clients include BIC, Caterpillar, Coca-Cola, Disney, GE, Honda, LL Bean, M&M Mars, P&G, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon, among many others. Our programs have been taught at Cornell, Northwestern, Georgia Tech, National University of Singapore, and Waseda University.


ABOUT Logistics Resources International
Logistics Resources International is a global supply chain consulting firm with RightChain™ teams in Atlanta, USA; Tokyo, JAPAN; San Jose, COSTA RICA; Lima, PERU; and Sydney, AUSTRALIA. The firm was founded in by Dr. Ed Frazelle in 1995 and serves clients with supply chain consulting, analytics, and education services.