Kinaxis
The Kinaxis Certification Program consists of general paths aimed at RapidResponse Administrators, Authors, and Contributors. Each path consists of different levels of certification, allowing participants to delve deeper and advance their knowledge in tandem with their skill set.
Duration: 40hrs
Course Content:
Introduction to RapidResponse
- Identify key benefits of using RapidResponse to improve their supply chain management
- processes
- View and interact with data and resources in RapidResponse
- Simulate business scenarios and test possible solutions using scenarios
- Create and receive alerts that notify them when certain business conditions change
- Participate in collaborations with other RapidResponse users to effectively resolve issues
RapidResponse Fundamentals
- Create scenarios in order to assess the impact of changes before executing those changes
- Collaborate with colleagues and manage scenarios to track changes to data and to determine best solutions
- Monitor data using alerts to receive automatic notifications of data changes and create custom filters to view only the data you are
- interested in
- Perform complex editing in order to use scenarios in a variety of situations and to increase the opportunity for experimentation
- Implement perspectives to improve efficiency when performing repetitive or routine analysis
Applications Overview
- Summarize the key differentiators of RapidResponse
- Name the RapidResponse applications and their associated capabilities and processes
- Identify the corresponding roles and responsibilities for each application
- Identify the key metrics and resources for each application
- Explain how the applications and their processes are interconnected
Sales & Operations Planning
- Apply the RapidResponse sales and operations planning (S&OP) process
- Identify the RapidResponse Sales and Operations Planning application resources
- Understand the process and its activities
- Update the annual plan
Aggregate Supply Planning
- Review and evaluate supply plan shortages
- Collaborate on gating key components and constraints
- Identify and resolve supply plan excesses
- Finalize and publish the constrained supply plan
Demand Planning & Statistical Forecasting
- Identify the RapidResponse demand planning and statistical forecasting components.
- Improve the accuracy of historical data by identifying and resolving causals and outliers.
- Configure forecast items and generate a statistical forecast.
- Manage product lifecycle.
- Evaluate forecast accuracy metrics for all forecast categories to assess their performance.
- Adjust the weight of the forecast categories to improve the accuracy of the consensus demand plan.
- Compare the performance of the different forecasts to align the consensus demand plan with the annual plan targets.
- Create a consensus demand plan.
Inventory Management
- Identify and analyze inventory issues
- Resolve projected late orders by transferring inventory and updating safety stock quantities
- Resolve projected stock-outs by updating lead times
- Use the inventory quality ratio (IQR) to review and update IQR targets and transitions
- Update inventory targets, such as periods of supply and lot size, to meet new inventory value targets
Inventory Planning & Optimization
- Create and manage assumptions
- Configure and review part configuration for inventory planning at multiple levels
- Generate and review safety stock recommendations
- Apply safety stock recommendations
Distribution Requirements Planning
- Define the distribution requirements
- planning process in RapidResponse
- Perform the DRP updating process
- Investigate issues that are causing late supply
- Simulate resolving late supply issues
- Evaluate resolution options
- Identify exceptions and opportunities to improve the plan
- Discuss storage capacity and explore tools for managing capacity
- Discover push planning capabilities
- Explore DRP metrics that allow you to measure and track the plan
Master Production Scheduling
- Monitor the master production schedule to maintain stability
- Adjust planning parameters, such as lot size and lead time
- Run a command to automatically firm up planned orders
- Review and adjust inventory targets to align the MPS
- Identify the issues that are causing MPS orders to be late
- Determine the best option to resolve MPS issues
- Finalize and publish the MPS to share with others
Capacity Planning (Constraints)
- Analyze data to determine if constraints are over or underloaded
- Analyze and adjust constraint properties, such as the rate and factor of a constraint
- Modify existing constraints to resolve issues by pre-building and shifting load
- Create a new constraint
- Analyze the impact of constraint changes using a scorecard
Order Fulfillment
- Promise new customer requests
- Review and re-promise existing orders that are late to their commitment
- Review and re-promise orders that are early to their commitment
- Review order shipment information, such as reports of upcoming shipments and early ship candidates
- Review orders on hold and determine the purpose of the assigned hold code
- Utilize techniques to resolve orders that are late to their commitment/request
- Manually insert or update urgent customer requests
- Update order fulfillment policies based on trend analysis
Self-Healing Supply Chain - Contributor
- Understand Self-Healing Lead Time alerts
- Review recommended lead time modifications from the machine learning (ML) server
- View lead time deviation impact by tolerance category
- Apply changes to lead times and evaluate impact
- Collaborate with other users
- Commit lead time changes
- Review changes before closing the loop with enterprise data