Agricultural Operations and Supply Chain Manager Course

Plan agricultural supply chains, coordinate suppliers and improve handling, storage and transport decisions.

Connect these tasks to the agricultural operations and supply chain manager role. Use the detailed programme to identify the methods, exercises and application areas most relevant to your work.

• Formulate clear and explicit strategies for managing supply chains for agric product and customer/market-characteristics;
• Formulate operations strategies, including the trade-offs between objectives that need to be managed and the use of various management levers;
• Experientially learn the need for collaboration and the nature of coordination that is required in managing supply chains;
• Understand how to integrate agric supply chains, from a process standpoint, both internally across functions and externally with trading partners;
• Formulate and implement strategies for agric supply chain partnering and supplier management;
• Develop incentive mechanisms that are aligned for superior supply chain performance; and
• Design products, processes, and supply chains in a coordinated manner.

• Introduction to Supply Chain Management
• Operations Management Framework
• Process Design
• Agri- Trading HACCP Process design
• Food safety HACCP risk and Controls
• Agric Trading System Thinking and Business modeling
• Agric Produce Demand Management & Forecasting
• Collaborative Supply Chains and Sourcing Strategies
• Agricultural Product Purchasing and Supplier Management
• Purchasing controls
• Receiving controls
• Supplier management
• Inventory and Warehouse Management:
• Storage controls
• Prevention of food safety hazards
• Agricultural product processing
• Prevention of food safety hazards
• Process, controls, productivity and measurement
• Packaging of agro product
• Prevention of food safety hazard
• Process, productivity and measurement
• Agricultural Product Transport Management
• Handling controls
• Transportation controls
• Channel management
• Channel modeling
• Channel Influence