- Master core terminology within logistics and supply chain management
- Identify and describe various logistics challenges
- Explain how logistics and supply chain management can be used to enhance a company's competitive advantage
- Account for various strategies within logistics and supply chain management
- A global perspective of supply chain management.
- Understand network thinking in regards to export. This includes the role of import in relation to export, including the role of business relationships with customers, suppliers, supporting actors such as consultants, financial institutions, logistics service providers.
- Appreciation of the role of export/import process in the globalized world market.

CONTENT

- The logistics and SCM concept
- Global supply chains
- Logistics and customer value
- Relationships and strategies within supply chains
- Logistics activities - transport, inventory and materials handling - Purchasing and procurement
- SCM, complexity and vulnerability
- Responsiveness, integration and profitability in the supply chain
- Overview of export/import & Export - import documentation and steps
- Methods and instruments of payment and pricing
- Export and import strategies and practices
- Export marketing
- Methods of financing exporters
- Customs clearance of import and export cargo
- Shipping
- Export procedures and documents
- Incoterms
- World Trade Organization
- Barriers to exporting
- Determinants of export performance
- Exporter/importer behavior
- Usefulness of export information sources
- Exporting problems and barriers
- Technology and export behavior
- Ethical issues in export/import
- Export propensity, intensity and firm performance

FOR WHOM:

New, mid-level and experienced purchasing professionals, including global supply chain executives; import and export operations personnel; traffic and logistics managers; purchasing professionals; legal and finance professionals (controllers).

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.

This course is available in the following locations:
Nigeria - $5000
Rwanda - $7000
UK - $8000
USA - $8000