PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT EDUCATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM Advanced Product Development Courses

The structure of the course :

• D1. Improving the Product Development Processes

is as follows:


PREPARATORY WORK : Case Study 1

DAY 1

Part 1 - Managing Product Development projects

• Module 1 - Reducing the number of projects
• Module 2 - Planning with LERP
• Module 3 - Defining metrics

Part 2 - Managing processes

• Module 4 - Defining new processes
• Module 5 - Improving process flow
• Module 6 - Improving document management

Evening 1 : Course dinner

DAY 2

Part 3 - Implementing the new organization

• Module 7 - Educating
• Module 8 - Removing the backlog
• Module 9 - Automating

Part 4 - Improving again

• Module 10 - Removing loops
• Module 11 - Improving time to profitable market share
• Module 12 - Improving complaints management

The structure of the course :

• D3. Life Cycle Resource Planning

is as follows:


PREPARATORY WORK : Case Study 1

DAY 1

Part 1 - Definition

• Module 1 - Business Excellence Objective
• Module 2 - Definition of Life Cycle Resource Planning
• Module 3 - Performance measurements

Part 2 - Implementation

• Module 4 - Planning rules
• Module 5 - Process
• Module 6 - Rough-cut capacity plannning

Evening 1 : Course dinner

DAY 2

Part 3 - Planning issues (Part 1)

• Module 7 - Use of rough-cut capacity planning
• Module 8 - RCCP drawbacks and advantages
• Module 9 - Bill of Materials

Part 4 - Planning issues (Part 2)

• Module 10 - Bill structure
• Module 11 - Material planning
• Module 12 - Cost management

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