Turn Your Supply Chain Into An Engine of Competitive Advantage

A well-designed alliance, based on mutual cooperation and collaboration, between a company and its strategic suppliers and customers can be a very effective, low-cost means of increasing productivity.

It will create:

• Greater profits for business owners 
• A better working environment for employees.
• The necessary conditions for continued long-term growth and enhanced economic competitiveness.
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Edmonton Economic Development Corporation (EEDC), with the support of Productivity Alberta, is offering an affordable three day workshop that can help Edmonton-area businesses create collaborative alliances with their suppliers and customers.

• Day 1: Utilizes a computer-driven game simulation to illustrate the importance of collaboration;
• Days 2 & 3: Use an interactive instruction model that truly engages participants.
• The program concludes with the creation of a 120-day plan to implement in your business
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What You'll Learn:

• Why it is important to build trust, and how to develop trust within your supply chain.
• To be open to information-sharing between your business, your suppliers, and your customers.
• Why material handling and inventory storage are non-value-added activities and should be reduced.
• The benefits of replacing the traditional view of procurement (a zero-sum game where economic gains by one company are attained at the expense of the other) with collaborative methods that create win/win situations for all members of a supply chain.
• How you can achieve the coordination and scale associated with large companies while increasing the flexibility, creativity and low overhead that are characteristic of small companies.
• How to broaden sourcing decisions beyond low cost so as to get the right materials in the right quantity at the right quality to the right place at the right time.
• How to dramatically increase idea creation as a means of increasing innovation.
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This training opportunity is supported by: