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Suppliers play a critical role in helping companies succeed. In order to find the right ones, businesses need to consider a number of critical factors, including: Price, Reliability, Value for money, Responsiveness, Quality and Flexibility.

The objective of this webinar is to provide you an introduction to key elements of Supplier Selection & Performance Management, the criteria for selecting a supplier and what to look for in a supplier.

Supply Chain Management is managing the flow of goods and services from the manufacturing of the product right through to the customer or end user. For this process to work successfully, it requires an organisation to have a network of suppliers to successfully move the product through each stage.

Our Supply Chain Management webinar will highlight how you can take action to make your supply chain more resilient and how you can work to develop your supply chain function so it delivers value and reduces costs.

Supply chain and purchasing functions are usually tactically focused within most SME’s - and even some larger organisations - with the priority given to ordering and chasing parts. As companies adapt their sales and production strategies to grow, diversify or respond to external changes, it is vital that long term plans are developed and executed that ensure their supply chains are fit for purpose. This can be achieved through Strategic Supply Chain Management.

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Recent disruptions in the global supply chain have caused many uncertainties around the guarantee of supply and planning for predictable costs.

As a result, many businesses are turning to sourcing to expand their options, and often to bring the supplier base closer to home. As with most new business processes, sourcing can be difficult and time consuming to execute well, but can cause additional disruption if executed poorly.

This supply chain video tutorial will provide an overview of what is considered best practice for sourcing, as well as how it can be implemented within your own

Effective supplier negotiation skills are critical to successful supply chain management. For negotiations to work, they require purchasing professionals to develop their engagement skills, and be well practiced in detailed preparation ahead of any supplier interaction.

Our Effective Negotiation Skills tutorial will highlight how you can take action to make your engagement more effective and how you can develop your purchasing team, so it delivers value and reduces costs.

Supply chain is an integral part of most businesses and can positively or adversely affect cost in terms of material costs, operational efficiency and working capital.

Cost reduction techniques are critical to successful supply chain management. It is therefore crucial that professionals can track business costs and identify opportunities to save money.

This tutorial includes practical tips and examples of best practice on how you can effectively carry out the cost reduction process and ultimately continue to deliver value.

Supply chain is an integral part of most businesses and can positively or adversely affect cost in terms of material costs, operational efficiency and working capital.  

Effective material handling and control is essential for efficient operation and material flow. Optimising inbound and outbound processes will directly impact the key business performance metrics of cash flow, operational efficiency, and capacity.

Supply chain is an integral part of most businesses and can positively or adversely affect cost in terms of material costs, operational efficiency and working capital.

Efficient goods management and control is critical for effective operation and material flow. Maximising inbound and outbound processes will directly influence the business performance metrics of cash flow, operational efficiency, and capacity.

Supply chain is an integral part of most businesses and can positively or adversely affect cost in terms of material costs, operational efficiency and working capital.

Digitisation in the supply chain can help improve efficiency, visibility, customer experience and reduce costs. This tutorial includes practical tips and examples of how companies have used digitisation to improve their business.

The Northern Ireland Investment Summit took place in the International Conference Centre Belfast on Wednesday 13 September 2023. It was delivered by the Department for Business and Trade, in partnership with Invest NI and the Northern Ireland Office. The Summit explored what makes Northern Ireland one of the world’s most attractive investment destinations.

During the Summit, delegates heard about the unique advantages of doing business in the only UK region to share a land border with the EU and which now has dual market access and the benefits of tariff-free trade of goods with both the GB

At this event, industry experts shared insights on navigating current supply chain challenges and how to future proof supply chains.

Local businesses showcased industry learnings and knowledge around the themes of sustainability, digitisation and supply chain improvements.

This video will also provide key information on:

Managing supply chains more effectively
Emerging technologies
Enhancing productivity within supply chain
Industry trends and best practices

Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED), is a simple but powerful Lean technique for reducing waste in a manufacturing process. It’s a systematic approach that enables organisations to dramatically reduce set-up time or change-over time. It provides a rapid and efficient way of changing the machine set-up in a manufacturing process from one product to another.

By the end of this short video, you’ll be able to:

Explain the concept of SMED
Describe the process steps for applying SMED

Typically, 90% of the lead time between order receipt and delivery is not adding value for the customer.

This video will cover how to map your business processes from receipt of an order until you are paid for it which will help to identify what these non-value adding activities are which waste time, energy & resources.

The process map is also a useful tool which can be used to help with problem solving.

The cost of having poor quality performance can be up to 15% of your sales, but they’re so much more than rework and scrap levels as many of the costs are hidden.

It’s accepted that people, machines & systems can make errors, however some of these mistakes will result in defects which may end up as rejects with your customers or even lead to a safety incident.

This video shows how using effective Mistake-Proofing devices & systems in your process will detect mistakes that occur before they are passed to your customers & in some cases, prevent errors from being made in the first place

It’s not always easy to tell if your business has had a good day or if the daily targets have been met. Getting your people involved in daily problem solving and process improvement activity can also have huge benefits for the business.

In this video Catherine will cover some of the benefits of using visual management in your business by making the condition of your processes obvious at a glance.

She will describe how to get your people involved in daily problem solving & process improvement activities as well as improving 2-way communication of targets, expectations & issues using daily

There are activities within your processes, which consume energy, time, money & people resources in your business, but without adding any value for your customers. There are internal non-value adding activities, or wastes, within your business processes which increase the lead time from receipt of a customer order until you are paid for it, as well as external wastes which are experienced directly by your customers.

The intent of this webinar is to help you to identify and reduce or eliminate these non-value adding activities.

Gathering facts & data makes solving problems easier & considerably faster as it helps create clarity by removing ambiguity, thereby helping you to identify & address the root cause of the problem instead of repeatedly firefighting to treat the symptoms.

This webinar will take you through seven simple, visual, quality tools, which can be used for data collection & analysis, including how to use each of the tools, how to choose the best one, and how to interpret the trends & patterns you have observed.

During the COVID-19 crisis, social distancing requirements had a significant impact on workplace layout, exacerbating the existing problem of limited floor space in many businesses.

The intent of this webinar is to take you through the six stages involved in organising your workplace to improve the flow of orders, information & materials through your process.

The six stages are:
•   Sort
•   Set
•   Shine
•   Safety
•   Standardise
•   Sustain

People who are constantly learning are more equipped to deal with change and adapt for business survival. Starting Training Within Industry will help you to learn faster on the shop floor and is a good step on to the learning ladder and reconnecting ‘thinking with doing’ at the front line management and operator level.

Companies are facing unique problems and challenges and are often uncertain about what steps to take to ensure their business runs as efficiently as possible. This webinar is designed to help you solve problems better, create an action plan and hopefully prevent those problems from coming back.

The aim of this KATA webinar is to investigate an alternative way of thinking and managing that will change mind-sets and give you the confidence to navigate any challenge.

The intent of this webinar is to give you a high level understanding of some of the structures that can help your business increase visibility of performance, instil key behaviours and ultimately grow and improve.

This webinar looks at how short-term projects, taking 6 weeks – can offer sustainable progress, which is also rapid enough to keep pace with a fast-paced world.

As the second largest country in the world by area with a population of over 40 million people, Canada is an ideal place to target and sell your product or services to consumers.

Canada has a highly developed and competitive market with similar business practices to Northern Ireland, and strong economic and cultural ties with 14% of the Canadian population claiming Irish heritage.

This video tutorial is a recording of a live webinar and focuses not only on the emerging trends and exporting opportunities for local businesses in the market and how to approach them, but also addresses the

Stay ahead of the curve and elevate your brand's social presence with insights on artificial intelligence, social sustainability, the rise of Threads, video dominance and micro-communities and hyper-niche targeting.

This video tutorial is a recording of a live webinar previously delivered by Invest NI in partnership with Declan Murtagh from digital marketing agency Brilliant Red Digital. It highlights the most innovative, important trends for 2024, along with how you can implement them in your business.

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Supply Chain | Supplier Selection & Performance Management

Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain | How to Develop a Supply Chain Strategy

Supply Chain | Effective Supplier Sourcing for Cost Avoidance

Supply Chain | Effective Negotiation Skills

Supply Chain | Cost Reduction Techniques

Supply Chain | Warehouse Management

Supply Chain | Management Fundamentals

Supply Chain | Digitisation in the Supply Chain

Northern Ireland Investment Summit 2023

Supply Chain Conference | Navigating Now, Shaping Tomorrow

Operational Excellence | Single Minute Exchange of Dies (SMED)

Operational Excellence | Process Mapping

Operational Excellence | Mistake Proofing

Operational Excellence | Creating a Visual Workplace (Visual Management)

Operational Excellence | Identifying Improvement Opportunities (Waste Walks)

Operational Excellence | How to use the 7 Quality Tools

Operational Excellence | Workplace Organisation using 6S

Learn to lead on the shop floor and adapt to change with TWI

Practical Problem Solving - Improve your way of working

KATA Overview - An alternative approach to achieving goals

Daily Management Routines

6 Week Planning

Spotlight on Canada

Social media trends for your business in 2024

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