Course Name
Managing the Supply Chain
Schedule
October 05, 2026 - October 06, 2026
Schedule via Zoom:
Monday & Tuesday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Early Eagle Rate:
Php 11,000
Valid Until:
September 21, 2026
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 started his professional career in the practice of Logistics and Supply Chain Management in 1984.
He is currently involved with the following companies and organizations; Board of Directors of BizSolv Asia, Executive Director of Macrolite group of companies and a Board member of the Supply Management Foundation (SOFSM), the foundation arm of the Philippine Institute for Supply Management (PISM).
He is the Program Director of Supply Chain Management for the Ateneo Graduate School of Business’ Center for Continuing Education. He also conducts regular courses in Supply Chain Management at the De La Salle’s College of St. Benilde San Beda College Alabang and University of Asia and the Pacific.
In the past, he has held various corporate positions in the following companies. He was the Logistics Director of Jollibee Foods Corporation, Vice President, Warehouse and Distribution Division of GeoLogistics Corporation, Director for Operations and Logistics of Shaklee Philippines and Logistics Manager of San Miguel Corporation’s Metal Packaging Business.
He is a Certified Purchasing Manager (C.P.M) from the Institute for Supply Management and a Diplomate in Supply Management from the PISM. He is also the Philippine Country representative for the Supply Chain Asia organization based in Singapore.
He completed the Management Development Program of the Asian Institute of Management in 1992. He holds a B.S Industrial Management Engineering minor in Mechanical Engineering degree from De La Salle University.
