Australasian Supply Chain Institute (ASCI)

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The Supply Chain Planner's Job 1-day course on 29 October

We're excited to offer The Supply Chain Planner's Job 1-day course on 29 October, designed to enhance your practical skills in distribution, manufacturing, and purchasing. This course will empower you to improve inventory investment and customer service, ultimately boosting your organisation’s profitability. Don’t miss this chance to elevate your career! For more details or to register:

The Supply Chain Planner's Job 1-Day Course ASCI - Professional Supply Chain Accreditation

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The Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model

If you want to improve your organisation's supply chain performance, you need knowledgeable operators, supervisors, and leaders who understand global standards. The Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model is the leading supply chain standard that is comprehensive, universally accepted, and open-access. By using SCOR, you can assess and improve your company's supply chain, which leads to better business performance. The latest version, SCOR DS, has undergone a significant update to include sustainability standards and the digital body of knowledge. This modern framework shifts from a linear supply chain model to a more synchronous network, leading to improved business performance. Over 5,000 organisations worldwide have used SCOR to improve their supply chains, resulting in improved operations, faster digital transformation, reduced IT expenses, and ongoing profit improvement. Join our SCOR DS course on 18 & 20 Nov. Find more details

SCOR Digital Standard (SCOR DS) Online Course ASCI - Professional Supply Chain Accreditation

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 Supply Chain Integrity: Tools and Strategies to Address Modern Slavery Risks course on 11 November

Join our Supply Chain Integrity: Tools and Strategies to Address Modern Slavery Risks course on 11 November. With a growing focus on modern slavery in the Asia Pacific and its implications for global supply chains, build your toolkit with practical tools and templates for supplier audits, worker interviews, and supply chain assessments. Don't wait for the new year to invest into your professional development.

Register Today : Supply Chain Integrity: Tools and Strategies to Address Modern Slavery Risks ASCI - Professional Supply Chain Accreditation

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Sales & Operations Planning 2-Day Course to enhance your operational planning skills, 18-19 November 2025.

Join our upcoming Sales & Operations Planning 2-Day Course to enhance your operational planning skills, which will take place on 18-19 November 2025. This workshop is designed for practitioners who want to understand the Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)/Integrated Business Planning (IBP) methodology and how it relates to operational planning and control processes and higher-level planning processes. During this course, you will learn how to guide your company to lower inventories and shorter lead times with higher customer service levels through a better S&OP process. You will also learn how to use a cross-functional S&OP/IBP process to improve customer service, inventory, and profits, overall company communication on plans, product portfolio management improvement, product and business rationalisation, and inventory reduction.

Accurate & Balanced Inventory 1-Day Course ASCI - Professional Supply Chain Accreditation

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Accurate & Balanced Inventory 1-Day Course on 28 Oct!

Join the Accurate & Balanced Inventory 1-Day Course on 28 Oct! Enhance your inventory management skills with this focused workshop! You will: ✅ Differentiate key concepts like coordination and reliability. ✅ Understand integrated planning and control. ✅ Review practical inventory balancing techniques using Excel. ✅ Implement effective sales forecasting to optimize inventory. ✅ Learn inventory scheduling using DRP, MPS, MRP, and more. ✅ Create a safety stock simulator for better supply reviews. ✅ Obtain valuable checklists for demand planning and sales forecasting. Don’t miss this chance to boost your operational efficiency—reserve your seat today!

Accurate & Balanced Inventory 1-Day Course ASCI - Professional Supply Chain Accreditation

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The Supply Chain Planner's Job 1-day course on 29 October

We're excited to offer The Supply Chain Planner's Job 1-day course on 29 October, designed to enhance your practical skills in distribution, manufacturing, and purchasing. This course will empower you to improve inventory investment and customer service, ultimately boosting your organisation’s profitability. Don’t miss this chance to elevate your career! For more details or to register:

The Supply Chain Planner's Job 1-Day Course ASCI - Professional Supply Chain Accreditation

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About Us - Light Up My Holiday

Learn about Light Up My Holiday, our passion for creating magical lighting displays, and how we brighten homes with joy and sparkle.

Christmas Light Installation

Transform your holidays with professional Christmas light installation from Light Up My Holiday. With over 20 years of experience, their expert team designs, installs, and maintains stunning lighting displays for homes and businesses. From elegant residential décor to large-scale commercial projects, they bring creativity, safety, and brilliance to every installation. Forget the hassle of untangling lights or climbing ladders—Light Up My Holiday handles everything from start to finish. Make your season magical with customized, dazzling displays tailored to your style and budget. Trust the professionals to make your holidays shine brighter than ever!

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How Demand-Driven Supply Chains Improve Agility and Customer Satisfaction

Despite the current macro environment of volatility, consumers are demanding more than ever from companies to meet their needs. As market trends change and product lifecycles shrink, it is essential to be able to react quickly to customer demands, reduce lead times, manage inventory levels and deliver on service level commitments. A demand driven supply chain offers an effective way to do this.

With a fully integrated supply network utilizing the right process and technology, a company can quickly adjust ordering, production and shipping to match increased or decreased demand, reducing inventory costs, minimizing lead time and avoiding missed sales. Achieving these benefits requires cross-functional coordination between all stakeholders including internal teams, customers and suppliers. This is often challenging given the vast amounts of data involved in the supply chain and the need to align all of these functions around a common goal.

A major challenge is getting people to buy into a new approach that feels riskier than traditional forecast-based approaches. This is especially true when the approach involves moving from one supplier tier to another in the manufacturing process and relying on customer orders instead of planned capacity.

Using actual customer orders to set capacity planning and trigger production is the foundation of a demand-driven supply chain. This provides greater accuracy than traditional approaches, which can be off by a substantial amount. It also allows the supply chain to rely on semi-finished and finished inventory that can be pulled into production as needed, rather than needing a significant investment in raw materials and unfinished goods for each product line.

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ASCI Accreditation enhances supply chain careers by validating expertise, fostering global networks, promoting ethical leadership, and ensur

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Production Planning & Control 2-Day Course

Unlock Planning Excellence: ASCI Production Planning & Control Workshop – 9–10 September 2025 (Via Zoom) Elevate your forecasting, inventory management, and integrated planning skills over two intensive days. Learn to: • Master FLOWCASTING and S&OP insights • Use Excel-based tools for forecasting and inventory sim • Benchmark performance with world-class checklists • Navigate ERP, DRP, MPS, MRP systems with confidence Suited for Demand Planners, Inventory Managers, Supply Chain Professionals, and Production Leads. Earn CPD points while accelerating your career in supply chain innovation. Don’t miss out—secure your spot today!

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Master Planning & Material Requirements Planning (MRP) 2-Day Course

Join our upcoming Master Planning & Material Requirements Planning (MRP) 2-Day Course to improve the key processes that enable effectively inventory management and higher levels of customer service, which will take place on 16-17 Sep 2025.

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Join our Supply Chain Integrity

 Tools and Strategies to Address Modern Slavery Risks course on 23 September. With a growing focus on modern slavery in the Asia Pacific and its implications for global supply chains, build your toolkit with practical tools and templates for supplier audits, worker interviews, and supply chain assessments. Don't wait for the new year to invest into your professional development.

Supply Chain Integrity: Tools and Strategies to Address Modern Slavery Risks ASCI - Professional Supply Chain Accreditation

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Enhance your career potential

Through professional registration under the ASCI Accreditation Scheme, you demonstrate to employers your commitment to maintaining and enhancing the skills, competence, and knowledge to meet their business needs. The registration offers you prestige and can improve your CV—leading to wider employment options, career progression, and promotion. Click here to learn more and enrol now:

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Strategic Supply Chain Management 2-Day Course

We are excited to announce a workshop called "Strategic Supply Chain Management: The Changing Corporate Context of Supply Chain Management" on 21 - 22 October 2025. In today's global business world, supply chain management is key to corporate strategy. This workshop will help you understand how being client-focused, using technology, and thinking about the whole ecosystem can add value and make your organization more resilient. During this 2-day course, you will learn to: - Distinguish between daily supply chain tasks and strategic leadership. - See how supply chain performance affects business profits and competition. - Discover new trends, digital tools, and changing rules in supply chain practices. - Review real-world examples of successful strategies from different industries. - Use strategic tools to align supply chain efforts with business goals.

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Professional registration under the ASCI Accreditation Scheme

Professional registration under the ASCI Accreditation Scheme enhances career prospects, allows you to connect with cross-disciplinary specialists, showcases ethical credentials, and provides access to lifelong learning resources.

Learn & enrol : https://shorturl.at/YuuRB

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Show leadership in your field

Professional registration under the ASCI Accreditation Scheme can help you become a leader in your field, be part of the national community of cross-disciplinary specialists, access life-long learning resources, improve your career prospects, etc.

Click here to learn more and enrol now

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APICS CLTD (Certified in Logistics, Transport and Distribution)

Prepare to take your logistics and distribution expertise to the next level with ASCI's APICS CLTD (Certified in Logistics, Transportation & Distribution) Online Certification Review Course. Designed to equip you with cutting-edge strategies in order management, inventory control, and warehouse management, this program covers everything from global logistics to sustainable practices.

Course Highlights:

Duration & Schedule: Runs weekly from 4 September to 27 November 2025—13 sessions, 39 hours total (6:30 pm–9:30 pm Sydney time)

Cost: A$2,599 for ASCI members • A$2,999 for non-members

Modules: Nine comprehensive topics including logistics fundamentals, demand & inventory management, transportation, global logistics, sustainability, reverse logistics, and continuous improvement

Why Attend: Learn from certified expert instructors, prepare effectively for the CLTD exam, and join a community of logistics professionals dedicated to innovation and operational excellence

Requirements: You’ll need the current CLTD Learning System before starting; note that learning materials and certification exams are not included in the course fee

Call to Action (italicized): Secure your spot now and streamline your path to CLTD certification!

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