Global Supply Chain Management: Best Practices in Import and Export Operations

Date Format Fees  
28 Sep - 30 Sep, 2020 Classroom ₦175,000 Register
28 Sep - 30 Sep, 2020 Classroom ₦175,000 Register
06 Apr - 09 Apr, 2020 Classroom ₦175,000 Register

Event Details

- 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
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Logistics activities - transport, inventory and materials handling - Purchasing and procurement
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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.

 

1ST BATCH:       6th – 9th April, 2020          

2ND BATCH:      28th – 30th September, 2020

  • Venue

    Alpha Partners Professional Training Conference Centre. 200, Muritala Mohammed Way (3rd Floor), Yaba Lagos.

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