Designing Multi-Tier Product Distribution Networks

Course Overview

Inventory tied up in multi-tier distribution networks is capital the organisation cannot use elsewhere. Warehouse performance on the wider procurement and supply operations agenda is decided by layout and discipline long before technology. Participants gain a clear basis for measuring what this part of procurement and supply operations has actually achieved. The course sets out a working method for multi-tier distribution networks that participants can apply the week they return. The professional literature on the wider procurement and supply operations agenda converges on a small set of controls that reliably work. Most organisations already have a policy on this strand of procurement and supply operations; far fewer can show it working. Every module pairs a short input on multi-tier distribution networks with structured practice on the participant's own material. Participants who influence this part of procurement and supply operations without directly controlling it will find the content directly usable. Participants leave with a plan for the wider procurement and supply operations agenda sized to what their organisation can realistically absorb.