Supply Chain Project Management
Strategic Management: Process, Content, and Implementation
Strategic management is the ongoing planning, monitoring, analysis and assessment of all that is necessary for an organization to meet its goals and objectives. Changes in the business environment require organizations to constantly assess their strategies for success. The strategic management process helps organizations take stock of their present situation, chalk out strategies, deploy them and analyze the effectiveness of the implemented management strategies. Our company therefore takes practice into account and gives full weight to the real-life problems of implementing these strategy.
GPSD views Strategic Management as a process for managing an institution's strategies and helps organizations make logical decisions and develop new goals quickly in order to keep pace with evolving technology, market and business conditions. Further help an organization gain competitive advantage, improve market share and plan for its future.
The Power of Strategic Commitment: Achieving Extraordinary Results through Total Alignment and Engagement
Employee engagement, accountability, and true commitment--not management’s well-thought-out initiatives--are the real key to achieving results. In The Power of Strategic Commitment organizations should learn how to improve strategic processes. By enlisting the support of managers, employees, boards, suppliers, investors, and others to promote company-wide ownership.
Our company outlines the key factors that determine commitment and reveals how organizations can continuously measure buy-in, involve everyone in creating their own piece of a larger organizational future, tailor commitment strategies for individual employees, keep everyone on the road to achieving stated goals, hire fully-engaged talent, and create a commitment-inspiring rewards system.
Even the most well thought out initiatives will fail without true employee ownership, accountability, and engagement. Yet most managers and executives don’t have a clear system for ensuring the support they need from those around them. The Power of Strategic Commitment helps organization improve their strategic processes by enlisting the support of managers, employees, boards, suppliers, investors, and others. The company outlines application of the key factors that determine commitment and providing powerful ways to build buy-in that cost nothing.
Environmental Sustainability and Corporate Strategy
As companies throughout the world embrace the concept of sustainability, a refined definition of sustainable business practice is anchored deep within the firms' business strategy and drives the partnerships, day-to-day operations as well as new areas of capital investment. With global warming challenging industries such as BP to find creative solutions, trust and forthrightness are needed to build and maintain a good reputation with stakeholders. This will deliver tangible results that benefit not only the companies themselves, but also society.
Our company is looking at the need to engage organizations further in sustainability. It outlines key elements of a corporate sustainability strategy to companies that are early in the sustainability process as well as companies that are interested in improving or expanding their established sustainability strategy. GPSD experts emphasis on corporate sustainability strategy as a multi-faceted strategy that provides multiple benefits to the company either by (1) setting strategic direction; (2) improving operational performance; (3) improving value chain performance; and (4) relating effectively to internal and external stakeholders.
Fundamentals of materials for energy and environmental sustainability
We try to provide answers to different fundamental questions that relates to organizations operations; how to meet rising energy demands, viable long-term solutions for the future fundamental physical, chemical and materials science at the heart of: • Renewable/non-renewable energy sources • Future transportation systems • Energy efficiency • Energy storage.
The company will help your organization understand critical relationships between the environment, energy and sustainability and strategic application on fundamentals of materials for energy and environmental sustainability for effective business growth. Our leading experts provide comprehensive understanding to organizations management by integrating theory with engaging insights for sustainability.
A Kaizen Approach to Food Safety: Quality Management in the Value Chain
GPSD provides a Management Science approach to quality management in food production and safety. Aspects of food quality, product conformance and reliability/food safety are examined and its value chain transformation. With Kaizen models the company is able to shows how changes in different product characteristics are the result of management decisions made by many organizations in response to government policy and industry strategy. Further, it provides step-by-step instructions on how to apply kaizen methodology and Deming's work on quality improvement to make the HACCPs (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) in food safety systems more robust.
Logistics & Supply Chain Management: creating value-adding networks
This company advises on the role of logistics in achieving corporate and financial goals. It has become the driving force of the logistics sector
The company provides logistical strategies to organization so that they become; A proven market leader and a Guaranteed high price seller.
We also provide a solution based training for logistics/operations managers on increasingly, managing the chain of demand in a growing area within marketing, integrated logistics and network logistics for effective value addition in the organization operations and revenue maximization.
Value Chain Marketing: A Marketing Strategy to Overcome Immediate Customer Innovation Resistance
?Value Chain Marketing (VCM) is a promising strategy to overcome immediate customers’ innovation resistance. By applying VCM, companies that deals with material suppliers enlarge their target group beyond their immediate customers and address their downstream customers as well. Treading on relatively unexplored grounds, our company helps different organizations explore the relevance of VCM and comprehends its process; identifies the critical factors for suppliers’ marketing success, and compares the performance of VCM, using a multi-method design and computational modeling.
Sustainable Value Chain Management: Delivering Sustainability through the Core Business
Our company introduces the integrated management concept of "Sustainable Value Creation" in the industry, which delivers sustainability ‘inside-out’ from the core business. It is based on the premise that sustainability can provide a platform for growth, if it is implemented in a company’s products, services and supply chains (combined also known as the 'Value Chain'). Managing the Value Chain from the outset with a sustainability mindset subsequently allows profitable economical, ecological and societal growth. It combines the need for increased sustainability and its implementation in the operations of a company. Global Partners for Sustainable Development (GPSD) experts addresses the following issues: How do economic, environmental and societal factors impact the value-creation process of a company? What requirements and expectations need to be met to balance economic, ecologic and societal value creation? What are the building blocks and measures that can be utilized on the journey towards building a sustainable value chain? What benefits can be achieved through sustainable value chains? What are the practical examples of sustainable value chains in leading companies that can inspire others to follow? Among others.
Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management
The company provides a platform for application of important trends and developments in logistics and supply chain management, making them available, while also serving as a point of reference for all organizations that create partnership with us for effective competitiveness. Operations and logistics are cornerstones of modern supply chains that in turn are essential for global business and economics. The composition, character and importance of supply chains and networks are rapidly changing, due to technological innovations such as Information and Communication Technologies, Sensors and Robotics, Internet of Things, and Additive Manufacturing, to name a few (often referred to as Industry 4.0). Societal developments such as environmental consciousness, urbanization or the optimal use of scarce resources are also impacting how supply chain networks are configured and operated.
As a result, future supply chains will not just be assessed in terms of cost-effectiveness and speed, but also the need to satisfy agility, resilience and sustainability requirements. To face these challenges, our company enhances an understanding of the basic as well as more advanced concepts and recent innovations is essential in building competitive and sustainable supply chains and, as part of that, logistics and operations.
Global Supply Chain Performance and Risk Optimization: The Value of Real Options Flexibility
In trying to increase industry consolidation, globalization and platform product strategies, our company underscores’ the importance of strategic supply chain design as a major business imperative. In parallel, the company also focuses the input of Real Options theory which is replacing net present value as the central paradigm for large-scale investment planning. Applied to operations, the Real Options strategy enables a firm to profit from flexibility designed into its supply chain.
The Real Options supply chain strategy (compared to - Single Sourcing, Dual Sourcing, Local Content, and Centers of Excellence) is demonstrated to yield superior financial results. The GPSD presents an action plan for implementing Real Options as a guide to practitioner’s intent on exploiting the strategy's power to minimize foreign exchange risk and maximize the financial performance potential unique to global supply chain networks.
Lean Performance ERP Project Management: Implementing the Virtual Supply Chain (Resource Management)
Lean Performance ERP Project Management integrates strategy, people, process, and information technology into a project management methodology that applies Lean thinking to all processes. It uses Lean principles, tools, and practices to improve and then continuously improve management decision processes, information/support processes, and their linkages to Lean physical processes. It allows you to start with your existing process, and then develop process performance improvements and measurements. If you're tired of information technology project failures or poor results, and all the "after project" rework, Lean Performance ERP Project Management will be a breath of fresh air. It helps you achieve system integration and provides an on-going Continuous Improvement tool after implementation. By showing you how to develop and utilize process workflow standards, it provides you with a road map to successful Lean Transformation.
Do you need it?
When you recognize the strength of the business (i.e. people and processes) you can enhance your company culture of continuous improvement.
Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Practices for Sustainable Operations and Management
Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management is the essential guide to the principles and practices of sustainable logistics operations.
Our Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management examines all the key areas in sustainable logistics and supply chain management, including: sustainable product design and packaging; sustainable purchasing and procurement; environmental impact of freight transport; sustainable warehousing and storage; and much more. We focus on Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management as a highly accessible guide to sustainable supply chain management. We further provide an excellent insight that will help managers and other employees grasp the fundamentals of green supply and logistics management.
Customer Satisfaction Evaluation: Methods for Measuring and Implementing Service Quality
We provide a comprehensive and over whole check of the customer satisfaction evaluation problem by presenting an overview of the existing methodologies as well as the development and implementation of a model able to evaluate the level of customer satisfaction both globally and partially for each of the characteristics or attributes of the product or service being considered. Furthermore, the company aims at providing an integrated set of results capable of analyzing customer needs and expectations and to justify their satisfaction level and finally, examine the development of a decision support tool to help understand and apply results.
Bottom-Line Call Center Management: Creating a Culture of Accountability and Excellent Customer Service (Improving Human Performance)
'Bottom-Line Call Center Management’ breaks new ground by addressing key skills and techniques in assessing and implementing effective management practices to maximize the human and capital resources at the call center manager's disposal. 'Bottom-Line Call Center Management' helps call center managers evaluate their current status, implement cost-effective changes, and measure results of their changes to ensure a culture of accountability within the call center at all levels increasing the bottom line.
How do we do it?
Our company provides a clear process which includes an evaluation of current customer service representatives, defining, delimiting and assessing the labor shed of the center, and exploring the customer service representative's unique skills and leveraging those skills into a unique and dynamic work environment. Likewise, the process also determines the learning skills and competencies necessary to meet and exceed the basic requirements for all call centers. Furthermore, each step has a pre, in-process, and post evaluation to ensure projects are progressing according to plan. Lastly, all evaluations are measured against the bottom line through a return on investment (ROI) model.
Effective Personal Communication Skills for Public Relations
Our team of experts explores and advices on different strategies that best helps and improves individual communication skills within the organizations by showing how to harness the power of communication to send out a message not just virally, but through online traditional channels as well.
Communication Skills for Effective Management
Globally communication is at the very heart of effective management. There is an ever-expanding demand for valid and generalizable information on how best to relate to people in organizational contexts. GPSD Communication Skills for Effective Management strategies meets this demand. It demonstrates how, for managers to be successful, they need to employ a range of key communication skills, styles and strategies. Communication Skills for Effective Management will be an excellent text for entrepreneurs in small and medium business in trying to improve their competitiveness in the ever changing market.