SUPPLY CHAIN TRAINING SUITE
New to supply chain? New to Walmart? Get the supply chain knowledge needed to succeed in OTIF, forecasting and replenishment in this 3-day training course.
Save $195 when you purchase the suite instead of individual classes.
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You Will Learn
Day One:
How to Navigate Walmart’s Supply Chain
- SQEP (Supplier Quality Excellence Program)
- Overview and portal
- Defects, fines, and invoicing
- ASN (Advance Shipment Notification)
- FIXit
- Case markings and labels
- Inner pack
- Meat and poultry cases
- ASN shipping
- Shipping labels LTL
- Shipping labels for cases and pallets
- Types of cases (configurations)
- Hazmat label requirements
- Automated RDCs
- CenterPoint Consolidation
- Ladder Plan
- Corporate POS Forecast Report
- Demand Forecast Report
- Supply Plan Report
- Key points
- Late pickup notification
- Ship point information
- Load planning
- What you must know about packaging, labeling, shipping
- Requirements for pallets and bagged items shipping to Walmart
- DC types
- Lead Time Audit: When/when not to do one
- Finer points of EOQ
- Freight Factor: How to influence it and why it’s important to your buyer
- How to get more from your efforts
- How to find the root cause of out of stocks
- TSCP
- Creating a ticket in the Transportation Ticketing Portal
Day Two:
Forecasting & Replenishment With Retail Link® Data
- Introduction to replenishment
- The Basic/Walmart Information Report
- Reasons for being out of stock
- What influences product demand
- Challenges of demand forecasting
- Replenishment components
- Consumer IDs (CID)
- Components of demand forecasting: mean, trend, seasonality
- Introducing a new item
- The forecasting process
- When to cleanse your history
- Best practices for history start dates
- Best practices for new item location
- Best practices for promotions
- How to create and use the Item 52 Week Forecast Report
- How to create and use the Last 13 Week Sales Next 13 Week Forecast Report
- How to create and use the Future Valid Item Store Query
- Plan analysis
- Safety stock
- Allocation calendar
- Lead time
- Best practices for a Lead Time Audit
- Best practices for New Items/New Mods
- Best practices for End of Life (EOL)
- Supplier closings
- Optimization and Economic Order Quantity (EOQ)
- Truck load optimization (TLO)
- Supply Plan Item
- Supply Plan Item/DC
- Out of Stock Root Cause Dashboard
- Replenishment overview
- Demand forecast
- Introduction to NOVA
- Fulfillment
- Understanding the significance of:
- How to create and use these reports:
- Working well with Walmart’s replenishment team
Day Three:
OTIF & NOVA
- NEW: NOVA & Revised OTIF Requirements
- Walmart’s goals and expectations
- Details of Arrival Compliance
- Differences between system-generated and manual orders
- Penalties and timing of charges
- Roles and responsibilities for Walmart and for its suppliers
- Why teamwork is important
- How to navigate the Performance page
- How to view POs by line
- How to navigate the Charges page
- Causes for charges on FedEx Small Parcels
- How to report a late or missed pick-up
- Gaining access
- Best practices for entering POs
- How to confirm a PO
- How to mass confirm a group of POs
- Item 52 Week Forecast Report
- Supply Plan by Order Date Report
- Supply Plan by Receive Report
- OTIF Checklist
- Flowchart to fix MABD Issues
- Flowchart to fix Fill Rate Issues
- How to develop an OTIF Action Plan
- How to use the DC Appointment Scheduler
- What it is
- Timeline of its four phases
- List of possible defects
- SQEP Performance Summary
- Overview
- Simple and multiple PO search
- PO creation and maintenance
- Error messages and FAQs
- OTIF Overview
- OTIF Scorecard
- How to schedule a delivery
- E-commerce and OTIF
- Transportation Portal (TSCP)
- How and when to do a Lead Time Audit
- Analyzing your business
- Practical help
- Introduction to SQEP
- NOVA
THIS SUITE IS 3 CLASSES. EACH IS A LIVE ZOOM MEETING WITH A MAXIMUM OF 10 PARTICIPANTS/INSTRUCTOR.
DAY ONE IS 9:00 AM TO 12:30 PM CENTRAL TIME. DAY TWO IS 9:00 A.M. TO 4:30 P.M. CENTRAL TIME. DAY THREE IS 9:00 A.M. TO 1 P.M. CENTRAL TIME.
PRICE: $1,755
YOU WILL SAVE $195 BY PURCHASING THE SUITE INSTEAD OF INDIVIDUAL CLASSES
Registration closes at 3 P.M. Central Time on the last business day prior to the first class in the suite.
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Reviews
These classes are a must in order to become a high performance supplier for Walmart.
- Talone - 4/20/21 VMI Replenishment Manager