Steven Brown
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to effectively manage inventory within your company. Explore analytical tools and control systems that can help you improve your inventory management efforts.
The success of a business can hinge on how its inventory is managed. There are costs to having too little—or too much—inventory on hand. In this course, instructor Steven Brown equips you with tools and strategies that can help you get inventory control right. Steven begins by...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Learn about lean: an operations management approach that means creating more value for customers with fewer resources.
Learn about lean: an operations management approach that means creating more value for customers with fewer resources. A lean organization understands customer value and focuses its key processes to continuously increase it. The ultimate goal is to provide perfect value to the customer through a value creation process that has zero...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Help your company practice more efficient delivery, distribution, and inventory control. Learn the ins and outs of logistics: a critical component of supply chain management.
Marketing may win the customers—but logistics keeps them coming back. Logistics play a critical role in a company's success, controlling how materials get from the supplier to the factory and how finished products get to the customer. Help your company practice more efficient...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Understand the key processes that make up a supply chain.
This course investigates eight key value-creating processes and how they can be applied to successfully manage your supply chain. In effect, your supply chain consists of these often-overlapping systems that define how businesses do business. World-class organizations lead their industry in managing these processes to create and deliver products and services that customers want. Join instructor...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to apply lean tools, tactics, and strategies to manage inventory more effectively.
By leveraging lean principles in your organization, you can cut down on waste, improve quality, and enhance your business processes. In this course, discover how to apply lean principles to one of the most crucial of these processes—inventory management. Instructor Steven Brown begins by discussing how inventory fits into the seven wastes of lean, as well...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Learn the fundamentals of purchasing for business. Find out how to manage suppliers, contracts, and costs, and implement strategic sourcing.
Purchasing departments add value and maximize savings for their organizations. In this course, supply chain expert and professor Steven Brown outlines the purchasing process and provides guidance for evaluating, selecting, and managing suppliers. He also addresses the roles of cost management and strategic sourcing,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An excellent logistics network can help ensure your company's long-term success. This course helps you understand logistics and how it impacts your company and customers.
An excellent logistics system delivers the right product to your customer at the right price, so understanding logistics is critical to your success. In this course, instructor Steven Brown shows you why logistics is important, what it is, and how logistics supports your company...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Understand the basic requirements for conducting logistics activities internationally.
As more and more businesses today go global and more and more materials and merchandise are transferred from one country to another, it’s more important than ever to understand the requirements of conducting logistics activities internationally. In this course, Steven Brown covers the information that anyone who ships materials internationally needs to know....
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Learn how to properly manage quality in your company. Explore major frameworks, tools, and strategies that you can leverage to enhance your quality management approach.
A company's success is largely determined by how well its employees understand and manage quality in their daily activities. In this course, instructor Steven Brown defines quality from a business perspective and covers major quality frameworks, tools, and strategies that you can...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Learn what Lean Six Sigma is, why it is used, and how it can be applied to manufacturing, services, and supply chain management.
Lean Six Sigma combines the principles of lean enterprise and lean manufacturing with Six Sigma to improve performance and systematically remove waste. Supply chain expert and professor Steven Brown explains the basics of using Lean Six Sigma as a structure for your improvement efforts. Steven outlines the process stages...