MORE ABOUT THE AEF

From planners all the way to the CEO, including individuals in the S&OP team, operations and supply chain, human resources, marketing, sales and finance, inexperienced and experienced – all will benefit significantly from this course facilitated by outstanding supply chain and organizational development professionals endorsed by the Demand Driven Institute.  They will not only learn and share the fundamental hard skills but also the soft skills required to turn a traditionally managed company into a dynamic, demand driven adaptive enterprise!  The program is delivered in an innovative educational approach intended to share the modern vocabulary of supply chain management between all departments and all levels of responsibility including shareholders.

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Another innovative element is the online learning system that accompanies the AEF program. It is designed to reinforce the common language as well as to prepare individuals for the Adaptive Enterprise Foundations Professional™ exam. Participants can follow the learning system at their own pace.

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The AEF program promises to accelerate the enthusiasm for and proliferation of flow-based tactics throughout industry and corporations of all sizes. Flow is another key necessary condition for success in today’s world. The AEF is the ideal program to support large Demand Driven transformations.

The unique attributes of the AEF program contribute to an exceptional learning experience:

1. The introduction of the shareholders’ point of view, thus enabling the creation of strategy and tactics that reduce conflicts between all stakeholders and allow for mutual benefits

2. Financial reports connected to the ROI calculation.

3. A role play between shareholders, the CEO and the employees to chart the road map of company improvement

4. Illustrations that bring the concepts of the program to life in a real-world scenario.

5. Explanations of the conceptual differences between conventional supply chain approaches and the flow-based approaches (including Lean and Theory of Constraints) culminating in the Demand Driven methodology.

6. The role of DDMRP and DDS&OP within the big picture as well as some example of detailed applications.

7. The introduction of skills buffers for an effective management of people’s competences

8. The basic rules of change management allowing companies to effectively become adaptive.

9. The basic rules of collective intelligence to create synergies between individuals.

10. A format that is friendly to personnel at all levels of the organization and is well suited to groups.

11. Post program access to the unique online learning system for continued learning and exam preparation.

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The AEF program becomes a vehicle to create a common language between departments, hierarchical levels and all players in an enterprise. This is essential to start the collective intelligence process with a systemic understanding in order to break through conventional silos and the associated conflicts.

An interactive business case business from the business novel "The Missing Links" reveals how middle management can contribute to a Demand Driven Adaptive Enterprise through sharing skills with peers thus enabling senior managers to pilot change instead of being reluctant to it and to embrace new technologies.

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The AEF program shows companies how to make the best use of the existing resources and skills as well as identify which skills are missing from the path to better ROI.