Supply Chain Management (CPE Course)

CPE Credit: 4 hours

Course Type: Downloaded PDF materials with online test

Price (with PDF Textbook): $45

Course Description
The quality of an organization’s supply chain will drive its overall success. In the Supply Chain Management course, we cover the components of a supply chain management system, and how it can be configured to enhance overall effectiveness. The topics covered include inventory reduction concepts, risk reduction, supplier ranking systems, quality management, and several related software applications.

Author: Steven Bragg

Course Number: PR1007

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Overview of Supply Chain Management
Chapter 2. Supply Chain Quality Issues
Chapter 3. Supply Chain Logistics

Learning Objectives

  • Identify the different levels of supplier.

  • Specify the advantages of maintaining a smaller supplier base.

  • Describe the issues related to global sourcing.

  • Identify how a countertrade agreement works.

  • Specify how to develop deeper supplier relations.

  • Identify how to run a collaborative negotiation process.

  • Recall the characteristics of a lead supplier.

  • Specify how the bullwhip effect occurs.

  • Describe what is needed to run automatic supplier replenishments.

  • Specify the different types of supply chain risk mitigation techniques.

  • Recall how customers perceive quality in a product or service.

  • Specify the characteristics of kaizen.

  • Identify the 14 points for management promulgated by William Edwards Deming.

  • Recall which types of waste would be eliminated with a lean practices initiative.

  • Recall the contents of a service-level agreement.

  • Specify what a supplier performance index tracks.

  • Identify the characteristics of the different forms of logistics transport.

  • Recall the characteristics of intermodal transportation.

Level: Overview

Instructional Method: QAS Self-Study

NASBA Category: Production

Prerequisites: None

Advance Preparation: None

Latest Review Date: August 2023

Program Registration Requirements: Click on "Purchase Course" near the top of this page to pay for and access the course. You will then be able to download the course as a PDF file, then take an on-line examination, and then download a certificate of completion if you pass the examination.

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The NASBA sponsor identification number for Accountingtools, Inc. is 115881.

AccountingTools is an IRS Approved Continuing Education Provider. We are compliant with the requirements for continuing education providers (as described in sections 10.6 and 10.9 of the Department of Treasury’s Circular No. 230 and in other IRS guidance, forms, and instructions). Our IRS Approved Continuing Education Provider number is 72821.