Present the case for investment in project supply chain management in terms that a finance function will accept.
Managing the Supply Chain Associated with Major Projects
Learn to design, measure and defend your organisation's approach to project supply chain management.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
The estimate for project supply chain management that nobody challenged is usually the one that fails. Stakeholders withdraw support for chain management quietly before they withdraw it formally. Work is grounded in real cases drawn from this area of project and portfolio delivery, which each participant adapts to conditions in their own organisation. The programme suits teams tackling project supply chain management together as readily as individuals attending alone. Content is organised around the decisions practitioners actually face in this part of project and portfolio delivery, not around theory headings. Progress on chain management is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. Participants take away a working set of documents supporting project supply chain management, ready to be adapted internally. The most reliable predictor of sound chain management is whether anyone reviews it when nothing has gone wrong. The course ends by identifying what the participant will stop doing to make the project and portfolio delivery capability sustainable.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Assign clear ownership for each element of chain management across the functions involved.
Recover project supply chain management when it is behind, without pretending it is not.
Identify and quantify the risks to chain management and assign owners.
Establish escalation routes for project supply chain management that work outside normal hours.
Design the governance and decision rights for chain management.
Build a schedule for project supply chain management with a genuine critical path and realistic durations.
Who Should Attend
Planners and schedulers building the timeline for project supply chain management.
Team members preparing to take on project responsibility for chain management.
Cost engineers and project controls staff on project supply chain management.
Client and stakeholder representatives monitoring chain management.
Staff seconded into improvement work on project supply chain management.
Planning staff whose forecasts and budgets are affected by chain management.
Course Modules
Project supply chain management: scope definition and exclusions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reviewing project supply chain management when nothing has gone wrong
- Measure progress on project supply chain management by value earned, not tasks ticked.
- Estimate chain management using two independent methods and reconcile the difference.
- Build reporting on project supply chain management that surfaces problems while they are small.
- Hold a lessons session on chain management while memory is accurate.
Session 2Building a schedule for chain management with a real critical path
- Agree the smallest change to project supply chain management that would be visibly useful.
- Build the internal briefing that explains chain management to those affected.
- Archive the decision record for project supply chain management so successors understand it.
- Map the handovers in chain management between functions and secure them.
Chain management: procurement, contracts and suppliers
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Decision gates on chain management that can actually stop it
- Define acceptance criteria for each deliverable of project supply chain management.
- Compare resource demand from chain management against other commitments.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for project supply chain management.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when chain management underperforms.
Session 2Managing suppliers delivering part of chain management
- Define how the benefit from project supply chain management will be measured after closure.
- Set escalation thresholds for chain management that work out of hours.
- Benchmark the organisation's project supply chain management against comparable operations.
- Map stakeholders of chain management by influence and current level of support.
Chain management: handover, benefits and lessons
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What has to be agreed before work on chain management starts
- Review at each gate whether project supply chain management should continue at all.
- Check that chain management still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Name a single owner for each element of project supply chain management.
- Write the scope statement for chain management including explicit exclusions.
Session 2Recovering project supply chain management when it is behind
- Test the procedure for project supply chain management against a realistic scenario.
- Identify the critical path through chain management and the float elsewhere.
- Anticipate the objections project supply chain management will raise and prepare the answers.
- Reduce the variation in how chain management is carried out between teams.
Chain management: governance, gates and decision rights
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Writing the scope of chain management including what is excluded
- Manage supplier performance on project supply chain management against contract, not goodwill.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates chain management is under control.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether project supply chain management is improving.
- Plan handover of chain management to the team that will operate it.
Session 2Closing out chain management and capturing what was learned
- Set the review interval for project supply chain management and who attends.
- Compare the cost of chain management with the cost of its absence.
- Agree the escalation threshold for project supply chain management in advance.
- Prepare the recovery plan for chain management before it is needed.
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At least 3 people
USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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