Course Name
Managing the Supply Chain
Schedule
November 17, 2025 - November 20, 2025
Schedule via Zoom:
November 17, 18, 19 & 20, 2025
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Early Eagle Rate:
Php 11,000
Valid Until:
November 03, 2025
Description
Managing the Supply Chain is an online program designed to provide you a clear understanding of the total supply chain process, its critical performance areas and functions, and the need to integrate these functions into a cohesive and coherent system to achieve optimum performance results. This course will provide you with an ideal blend of academic knowledge and industry experience that will help you enhance your knowledge, experience, and skills in supply chain management.
Who should attend
Personnel involved in procurement, demand and replenishment, logistics operation and customer service functions of supply chain management.
After the course, you will:
- Experience and learn the evolution of Supply Chain Management (SCM);
- Define SCM and its critical performance areas and functions;
- Identify improvement areas in your company's procurement, demand and replenishment, logistics operation, and customer service functions; and
- Develop an action plan that will translate SCM concepts into practice in your own respective companies.
- Concept of supply chain management
- Scope and definition
- Importance of supply chain management
- Four pillars
- Financial impact
- Competitive advantage
- Desired state and standards
- Customer service
- Importance of customer service: Customer is king
- Components of customer service
- Measuring customer service
- Order to cash
- Demand and replenishment
- Definition of inventory
- Economic order quantity
- Replenishment systems
- Safety stock computation
- Importance of forecasting
- Concepts of forecasting
- Basic forecasting tools
- Logistics and distribution
- Warehouse management
- Overview of warehouse operation
- Warehouse cost
- Use of packaging and unit load concept
- Order picking concepts
- Layout design
- Warehouse management system
- Freight and transportation
- Types and modes of transport
- Cost and service requirements
- Selection methodology
- Channels of distribution
- Channel types, structures, and selection
- Procurement
- Definition and principles
- 5 R's of purchasing
- Finding qualified sources
- Negotiation principles
- Value creation
- Standardization
- Role of purchasing in product/service design
- Value analysis/engineering
- Early supplier involvement
Mr. Antonio Kent Valderrama
Kent has been in the Supply Chain Management profession since 1984. He is a resource person for the Supply Chain Management seminars of PISM, De la Salle Benilde SPaCE, San Beda Alabang and the Program Director for Supply Chain Management of the Ateneo Graduate School - Center for Continuing Education Program.
Kent is currently a Board member of BizSolv Asia,. He was the Management Consultant for Macrolite Corporation, formerly Logistics Director of Jollibee Foods Inc., Vice President for Warehouse and Distribution of Geo Logistics, Inc., Director for Operations and Logistics of Shaklee Philippines and Logistics Manager of San Miguel Metal Packaging Business.
He earned his Certified Purchasing Manager (C.P.M.) title in 1993 and is recognized as a Diplomate in Supply Management by SOFSM/PISM in 2002.
He is also the Philippine country representative of the Supply Chain Asia organization based in Singapore. He holds a B.S Industrial Management Engineering minor in Mechanical Engineering degree from De La Salle University.
