Advanced Material Expediting Course

  • Advanced Material Expediting Course
  • Spain - Barcelona

Advanced Material Expediting Course

Course Category : Supply Chain & Logistics Management

This advanced programme provides a comprehensive framework for material expediting, enabling professionals to enhance logistics performance, optimise supply chain flow, reduce delays, and apply global best practices to achieve cost-efficient and timely material delivery.
Duration: 05 Training Days
Level: Advanced.

Starts On

29 - June - 2026

Ends On

3 - July - 2026

Location

Spain - Barcelona

Language

English

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Targeted Audience

  • Senior logistics and supply chain professionals
  • Purchasing, warehouse, and inventory personnel
  • Financial and materials management teams
  • Logistics coordinators and material expediters
  • Resource planning and supply professionals
  • Engineers involved in industrial or project-based logistics

Targeted Skills

  • Mastery of advanced logistics and supply chain dynamics
  • Analytical decision-making through logistics performance metrics
  • Supplier management and strategic procurement arrangements
  • Material planning and demand forecasting
  • International transportation and freight documentation
  • Application of material expediting and acceleration methodologies
  • Inventory optimisation using analytical and economic models
  • Process improvement and waste reduction in logistics workflows
  • Cost control and cash-flow enhancement
  • Scientific approaches to logistics risk management

Expected Outcomes

  • Understand the strategic role of material expediting in logistics performance.
  • Analyse various international freight models and transportation requirements.
  • Improve resource planning and demand forecasting accuracy.
  • Design effective inventory policies that reduce cost and ensure material availability.
  • Apply cost-analysis tools, including Total Cost of Ownership methodologies.
  • Manage suppliers using global frameworks such as Kraljic and Porter.
  • Enhance purchasing cycles and reduce lead times.
  • Develop organised processes for material expediting and follow-up.
  • Strengthen decision-making abilities in complex logistics environments.
  • Improve logistics risk management and critical operations performance.

Training Topics Index

  • Evaluating logistics within modern business operations
  • Evolution and dynamics of supply chain management
  • Applying a complete Supply Chain Approach
  • Using the SCOR model to improve performance

• Identifying supply chain risks

internal, PESTLE, inventory, disruption, security, procurement

  • Developing spend analysis and purchasing price indices
  • Applying Total Cost of Ownership concepts
  • Supplier portfolio analysis using Kraljic’s Matrix and Porter’s 5 Forces
  • Formulating strategic purchasing plans
  • Impact of order cycles and lead times
  • Negotiation planning and preparation

  • Developing structured procedures for stock decision-making
  • Reviewing safety stock and reorder points
  • Improving Min/Max systems with accurate forecasting
  • Cataloguing materials for effective procurement
  • Developing Bills of Material for parts management

  • Establishing comprehensive inventory goals
  • Implementing inventory rationalisation strategies
  • Calculating carrying costs and EOQ
  • Applying Pareto analysis
  • Enhancing item identification and coding
  • Improving record accuracy and cycle counting

  • The role of transportation in logistics
  • Strategic transportation decisions
  • Transport modes and intermodal systems
  • Understanding Incoterms and liability allocations
  • Identifying and managing hazardous materials transportation