By attending courses listed on this page, RapidResponse™ users can more easily address operations performance problems and make better decisions in real-time resulting in cost savings, improved customer satisfaction, and gains in competitive advantage.
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Kinaxis offers training courses for key members of your RapidResponse
implementation team and user community. These courses help ensure the
successful implementation of RapidResponse and allow your company to
maximize its return on investment.
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Courses
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RapidResponse user courses
Introduction to RapidResponse 9.5
This course introduces
RapidResponse and explains how it can be used to resolve supply chain challenges. Attendees learn how to:
- Navigate in the
RapidResponse
workspace
- View data using workbooks and worksheets
- View summarized data using hierarchies and charts
- Use
RapidResponse
Message Center
- Create shortcuts
- Print reports
- Customize the appearance of printed reports
- Export data for use in other applications such as Microsoft Excel
- Change user options
- Search for data
- View part information
- Create static-value filters
- Use scorecards to understand the state of the data and compare scenarios
- Use task flows
- Access on line help and documentation
- Search for a workbook that contains a specific string
This training course is available from the Kinaxis Supply Chain Expert Community at: http://community.kinaxis.com/community/supply_chain_management_kinaxis_rapidresponse/training.
Video :
No Charge
RapidResponse Scorecarding and Alerting
This course covers how to use RapidResponse to:
- Create scorecards to compare metric results between scenarios and against targets
- Produce time-based scorecards
- Include charts in the scorecards
- Create targets
- Create alerts that monitor data specific records, worksheets, or scorecards
- Automate reports
- Creating an alert to run after another alert finishes
- Creating an alert that runs an external process after the alert completes
Additional video content available from the Kinaxis Supply Chain Expert Community at: http://community.kinaxis.com/community/supply_chain_management_kinaxis_rapidresponse/training.
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Data Simulation
This course covers how to use RapidResponse to:
- Understand scenarios and their properties
- Change data by inserting or deleting records
- Track data changes
- Split orders
- Edit dates
- Modify calculated values
- Edit crosstab data
- Modify data in hierarchies
- Copy blocks of data
- Importing data into a scenario
- Importing data into a workbook
Additional video content available from the Kinaxis Supply Chain Expert Community at: http://community.kinaxis.com/community/supply_chain_management_kinaxis_rapidresponse/training.
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse and RapidResponse Scorecarding and Alerting
Duration: 1 day
On-Site :
$890.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$540.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Collaboration
This course covers how to use RapidResponse to:
- Initiate a collaboration with other users to solve business problems
- Participate in a collaboration exercise
- Use RapidResponse Message Center in the collaboration exercises
- View conflicting data changes
- Conclude the collaboration exercise and generate an activity report
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Solving business problems courses
Managing Supply and Supply Changes
This course covers how to use RapidResponse to:
This course covers how to use RapidResponse to view supply information and analyze the impact of supply disruptions using the Planning Sheet workbook. Also, the participants will learn how to view supplies at different levels of detail and step through processes to resolve supply problems, and exhaust supply for a part.
- Viewing historical supply data
- Use parts to exhaust with interchangeable part relationship
Additional video content available from the Kinaxis Supply Chain Expert Community at: http://community.kinaxis.com/community/supply_chain_management_kinaxis_rapidresponse/training.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Demand and Demand Changes
This course covers how to use RapidResponse resources to address the various business challenges related to managing customer demand at the finished goods level. In this course, participants step through processes to resolve late orders, respond to changes in finished goods supply, evaluate the impact of adding or changing orders, and respond to schedule changes.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Allocations to Forecast
This course covers how to use the RapidResponse resources to address the various business challenges related to managing the allocation of supply to customer forecasts. In this course, participants step through processes to solve business challenges such as allocating supply, responding to supply changes, evaluating the impact of forecast changes, and accepting customer forecast requests.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Allocation to Demand Sites
This course covers how to use the RapidResponse resources to address the various business challenges related to managing allocating supply to various sites in your organization. In this course, participants step through processes to solve business challenges such as allocating of supply, responding to supply changes, and managing the finished goods inventory to optimize company objectives.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Inventory
This course covers how to investigate inventory anomalies and identifying excess inventory and shortages using the Inventory Analysis workbook. It also demonstrates how to use processes to reduce the excess inventory, use parts to exhaust and review inventory liabilities.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Bills of Material
This course covers how to view single level bills of material, understand how to use the BOM Analysis workbook and analyze changes such as an increase in a component's lead-time and modify option ratios. This course also covers how to set up BOM level part substitution, understand the results of a BOM compare and creating and using BOM filters.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Outsourced Manufacturing
This course covers how to address the various business challenges related to outsourced manufacturing. In this course, participants step through the task flows used to solve business challenges related to outsourced manufacturing. As well, participants learn about using scenario perspectives, and comparing contract manufacturer's and brand owner's bills of material.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 1 day
On-Site :
$890.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$540.00 USD / participant
Managing Replenishment with Kanban Manager
This course covers how to use the Kanban Manager feature to view kanban details and calculate new recommendations for either the number of bins or bin quantity associated with a kanban system. For example, you might want to calculate new bin recommendations in response to a demand change. This can help prevent unfavorable inventory conditions that might arise from not periodically reviewing kanban bin sizing.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Introduction to Managing Constraints
This course covers how to use the RapidResponse resources to create, view, and analyze the impact of constraint changes. As well, this course explains how to use constraints to manage limited supply or capacity conditions, and manage contract changeovers.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Capacity
This course covers how to use RapidResponse resources to effectively plan, monitor, and respond to capacity anomalies. Participants will also learn how to step through processes to align capacity with load, manage capacity changes, and evaluate the impact of a new customer demand on capacity.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Using RapidResponse Engineering Change Manager
Using Clear to Build
This course covers how production planners use the Clear to Build workbook to review production orders to determine what they can build immediately and what needs to wait. The Clear to Build workbook can also be used to change order properties.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Authoring resource courses
RapidResponse Data Model
This course provides participants with an overview of the database design concepts used in the RapidResponse data model. Participants learn how data is organized, table and field types, and receive a hierarchical representation of primary tables in RapidResponse. In addition, users also learn about input, calculated, and control tables, along with their intended uses, and understand which tables and fields to use when designing workbooks.
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Authoring Fundamentals
This course covers how to create filters, hierarchies, task flows, workbooks, and table-based worksheets. Users learn how to create crosstab worksheets which can drill to the details. This course also teaches how to use the RapidResponse Query Language to leverage the power of RapidResponse to create simple, compound, and conditional expressions. After attending this course, participants will understand the RapidResponse workbook development process and leave with a worksheet design template and the required skills to be successful at authoring RapidResponse resources.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Model
Duration: 2 days
On-Site :
$1780.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$1080.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Authoring Advanced
This course leverages the information learned in the RapidResponse Authoring Fundamentals course and covers how to create worksheets based on multiple data tables (composite worksheets) and editable crosstab worksheets. Users learn how to create metric workbooks and worksheets. This course also teaches how to define and use workbook variables, design macros and define profile variables.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Authoring Fundamentals
Duration: 1.5 days
On-Site :
$1335.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$810.00 USD / participant
Administration courses
RapidResponse User Administration
This course is targeted at administrators who are responsible for the daily user management of RapidResponse. The course teaches how to manage user accounts and predefined resources such as workbooks, and set up RapidResponse Message Center and the alert service. Course participants also learn how to grant permissions to tools and resources, monitor system usage, specify user system settings, stop data queries, and disconnect users.
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Configuring Automated Collaboration
This course teaches participants how to setup groups and assign group members the responsibility for data. Participants will also learn to use the predefined responsibility workbooks included with RapidResponse and create new collaboration workbooks.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Authoring Fundamentals and RapidResponse User Administration
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse System Administration
This course is targeted at RapidResponse administrators who are responsible for the deployment and maintenance of the overall RapidResponse system. This course outlines the responsibilities of RapidResponse system administrators. Course participants learn how to monitor the RapidResponse system, set system configuration and create administrative users and groups.
Delivered as a series of videos.
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse
This training course is available from the Kinaxis Supply Chain Expert Community at: http://community.kinaxis.com/community/supply_chain_management_kinaxis_rapidresponse/training.
Video :
No Charge
RapidResponse Data Administration
This course is targeted at RapidResponse administrators who are responsible for bringing data into RapidResponse from their own enterprise systems, customers, suppliers, and contract manufacturers. Participants will learn troubleshooting techniques, how to manage RapidResponse on a daily basis, schedule tasks, modify analytic calculations and manage views of the data for their users.
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse
Duration: 1 day
On-Site :
$890.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$540.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Data Administration – Modifying a data integration
This course is targeted at RapidResponse administrators who are responsible for modifying and managing their data integration. Participants will learn how to add new sites, modify data sources and data files, persist system of record data, and customize the RapidResponse data model.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Administration
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Data Publishing
This course is targeted at contract manufacturers who are sharing data with brand owners (sometimes called OEMs). This course explains how to set up RapidResponse to publish data to RapidResponse subscribers and how to set up and install the RapidResponse data transfer client.
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Data Subscribing
This course is targeted at administrators responsible for bringing in data from outside sources such as customers, suppliers, and contract manufacturers. This course explains how to bring in data from other companies that use RapidResponse and companies that do not.
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Developer courses
RapidResponse OpenAPI
This two-day course is designed to train developers in the use of the RapidResponse OpenAPI to extend and customize RapidResponse. RapidResponse OpenAPI is a set of registered Microsoft COM objects used to programmatically access the RapidResponse Server. Custom applications can use RapidResponse OpenAPI to retrieve data from RapidResponse Server.
Note: This course is only delivered in classroom at the Kinaxis training center in Ottawa, Canada.
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse and RapidResponse authoring courses
On-Site :
$1775.00 USD / participant
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Introduction to RapidResponse 9.4
This course introduces
RapidResponse and explains how it can be used to resolve supply chain challenges. Attendees learn how to:
- Navigate in the
RapidResponse
workspace
- View data using workbooks and worksheets
- View summarized data using hierarchies and charts
- Use
RapidResponse
Message Center
- Create shortcuts
- Print reports
- Customize the appearance of printed reports
- Export data for use in other applications such as Microsoft Excel
- Change user options
- Search for data
- View part information
- Create static-value filters
- Use scorecards to understand the state of the data and compare scenarios
- Use task flows
- Access on line help and documentation
This training course is available from the Kinaxis Supply Chain Expert Community at: http://community.kinaxis.com/community/supply_chain_management_kinaxis_rapidresponse/training.
Video :
No Charge
RapidResponse Scorecarding and Alerting
This course covers how to use RapidResponse to:
- Create scorecards to compare metric results between scenarios and against targets
- Produce time-based scorecards
- Include charts in the scorecards
- Create targets
- Create alerts that monitor data specific records, worksheets, or scorecards
- Automate reports
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Data Simulation
This course covers how to use RapidResponse to:
- Understand scenarios and their properties
- Change data by inserting or deleting records
- Track data changes
- Split orders
- Edit dates
- Modify calculated values
- Edit crosstab data
- Modify data in hierarchies
- Copy blocks of data
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse and RapidResponse Scorecarding and Alerting
Duration: 1 day
On-Site :
$890.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$540.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Collaboration
This course covers how to use RapidResponse to:
- Initiate a collaboration with other users to solve business problems
- Participate in a collaboration exercise
- Use RapidResponse Message Center in the collaboration exercises
- View conflicting data changes
- Conclude the collaboration exercise and generate an activity report
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Solving business problems courses
Managing Supply and Supply Changes
This course covers how to use RapidResponse to:
This course covers how to use RapidResponse to view supply information and analyze the impact of supply disruptions using the Planning Sheet workbook. Also, the participants will learn how to view supplies at different levels of detail and step through processes to resolve supply problems, and exhaust supply for a part.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Demand and Demand Changes
This course covers how to use RapidResponse resources to address the various business challenges related to managing customer demand at the finished goods level. In this course, participants step through processes to resolve late orders, respond to changes in finished goods supply, evaluate the impact of adding or changing orders, and respond to schedule changes.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Demand at the Component Level
This course covers how to use the RapidResponse resources to address the various business challenges related to managing customer demand that is being gated by lower level components. In this course, participants step through processes to resolve late orders caused by components, respond to changes in component supply, evaluate the impact of adding or changing orders, and respond to schedule changes.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Allocations to Forecast
This course covers how to use the RapidResponse resources to address the various business challenges related to managing the allocation of supply to customer forecasts. In this course, participants step through processes to solve business challenges such as allocating supply, responding to supply changes, evaluating the impact of forecast changes, and accepting customer forecast requests.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Allocation to Demand Sites
This course covers how to use the RapidResponse resources to address the various business challenges related to managing allocating supply to various sites in your organization. In this course, participants step through processes to solve business challenges such as allocating of supply, responding to supply changes, and managing the finished goods inventory to optimize company objectives.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Inventory
This course covers how to investigate inventory anomalies and identifying excess inventory and shortages using the Inventory Analysis workbook. It also demonstrates how to use processes to reduce the excess inventory, use parts to exhaust and review inventory liabilities.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Bills of Material
This course covers how to view single level bills of material, understand how to use the BOM Analysis workbook and analyze changes such as an increase in a component's lead-time and modify option ratios. This course also covers how to set up BOM level part substitution, understand the results of a BOM compare and creating and using BOM filters.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Outsourced Manufacturing
This course covers how to address the various business challenges related to outsourced manufacturing. In this course, participants step through the task flows used to solve business challenges related to outsourced manufacturing. As well, participants learn about using scenario perspectives, and comparing contract manufacturer's and brand owner's bills of material.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 1 day
On-Site :
$890.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$540.00 USD / participant
Managing Replenishment with Kanban Manager
This course covers how to use the Kanban Manager feature to view kanban details and calculate new recommendations for either the number of bins or bin quantity associated with a kanban system. For example, you might want to calculate new bin recommendations in response to a demand change. This can help prevent unfavorable inventory conditions that might arise from not periodically reviewing kanban bin sizing.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Introduction to Managing Constraints
This course covers how to use the RapidResponse resources to create, view, and analyze the impact of constraint changes. As well, this course explains how to use constraints to manage limited supply or capacity conditions, and manage contract changeovers.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Capacity
This course covers how to use RapidResponse resources to effectively plan, monitor, and respond to capacity anomalies. Participants will also learn how to step through processes to align capacity with load, manage capacity changes, and evaluate the impact of a new customer demand on capacity.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing the Sales and Operations Plan
This course covers how to use RapidResponse resources to analyze forecast to produce and effective demand plan, develop the best supply plan to support the demand plan, monitor availability of capacity to support the plans, and review the resulting sales and operation plan. As well, this course will demonstrate how to compare various demand and supply plans to corporate targets to optimize company objectives.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Cost Changes
This course covers how to use the Financial Analysis workbook to analyze cost changes (for example, the impact of supplier's price increase) and how to understand the BOM Analysis workbook from a cost perspective.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Using RapidResponse Engineering Change Manager
Using Clear to Build
This course covers how production planners use the Clear to Build workbook to review production orders to determine what they can build immediately and what needs to wait. The Clear to Build workbook can also be used to change order properties.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Simulation
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Authoring resource courses
RapidResponse Data Model
This course provides participants with an overview of the database design concepts used in the RapidResponse data model. Participants learn how data is organized, table and field types, and receive a hierarchical representation of primary tables in RapidResponse. In addition, users also learn about input, calculated, and control tables, along with their intended uses, and understand which tables and fields to use when designing workbooks.
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Authoring Fundamentals
This course covers how to create filters, hierarchies, task flows, workbooks, and table-based worksheets. Users learn how to create crosstab worksheets which can drill to the details. This course also teaches how to use the RapidResponse Query Language to leverage the power of RapidResponse to create simple, compound, and conditional expressions. After attending this course, participants will understand the RapidResponse workbook development process and leave with a worksheet design template and the required skills to be successful at authoring RapidResponse resources.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Model
Duration: 2 days
On-Site :
$1780.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$1080.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Authoring Advanced
This course leverages the information learned in the RapidResponse Authoring Fundamentals course and covers how to create worksheets based on multiple data tables (composite worksheets) and editable crosstab worksheets. Users learn how to create metric workbooks and worksheets. This course also teaches how to define and use workbook variables, design macros and define profile variables.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Authoring Fundamentals
Duration: 1.5 days
On-Site :
$1335.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$810.00 USD / participant
Administration courses
RapidResponse User Administration
This course is targeted at administrators who are responsible for the daily user management of RapidResponse. The course teaches how to manage user accounts and predefined resources such as workbooks, and set up RapidResponse Message Center and the alert service. Course participants also learn how to grant permissions to tools and resources, monitor system usage, specify user system settings, stop data queries, and disconnect users.
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Configuring Automated Collaboration
This course teaches participants how to setup groups and assign group members the responsibility for data. Participants will also learn to use the predefined responsibility workbooks included with RapidResponse and create new collaboration workbooks.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Authoring Fundamentals and RapidResponse User Administration
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse System Administration
This course is targeted at RapidResponse administrators who are responsible for the deployment and maintenance of the overall RapidResponse system. This course outlines the responsibilities of RapidResponse system administrators. Course participants learn how to monitor the RapidResponse system, set system configuration and create administrative users and groups.
Delivered as a series of videos.
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse
This training course is available from the Kinaxis Supply Chain Expert Community at: http://community.kinaxis.com/community/supply_chain_management_kinaxis_rapidresponse/training.
Video :
No Charge
RapidResponse Data Administration
This course is targeted at RapidResponse administrators who are responsible for bringing data into RapidResponse from their own enterprise systems, customers, suppliers, and contract manufacturers. Participants will learn troubleshooting techniques, how to manage RapidResponse on a daily basis, schedule tasks, modify analytic calculations and manage views of the data for their users.
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse
Duration: 1 day
On-Site :
$890.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$540.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Data Administration – Modifying a data integration
This course is targeted at RapidResponse administrators who are responsible for modifying and managing their data integration. Participants will learn how to add new sites, modify data sources and data files, persist system of record data, and customize the RapidResponse data model.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Data Administration
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Data Publishing
This course is targeted at contract manufacturers who are sharing data with brand owners (sometimes called OEMs). This course explains how to set up RapidResponse to publish data to RapidResponse subscribers and how to set up and install the RapidResponse data transfer client.
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Data Subscribing
This course is targeted at administrators responsible for bringing in data from outside sources such as customers, suppliers, and contract manufacturers. This course explains how to bring in data from other companies that use RapidResponse and companies that do not.
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Developer courses
RapidResponse OpenAPI
This two-day course is designed to train developers in the use of the RapidResponse OpenAPI to extend and customize RapidResponse. RapidResponse OpenAPI is a set of registered Microsoft COM objects used to programmatically access the RapidResponse Server. Custom applications can use RapidResponse OpenAPI to retrieve data from RapidResponse Server.
Note: This course is only delivered in classroom at the Kinaxis training center in Ottawa, Canada.
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse and RapidResponse authoring courses
On-Site :
$1775.00 USD / participant
Display All
RapidResponse user courses
Introduction to RapidResponse 9.3
This course introduces
RapidResponse and explains how it can be used to resolve supply chain challenges. Attendees learn how to:
- Navigate in the
RapidResponse
workspace
- View data using workbooks and worksheets
- Use
RapidResponse
Message Center
- Print
- Export data for use in other applications such as Microsoft Excel
- Change user options
- Search for data
- View part information
- Create static-value filters
Video :
No Charge
RapidResponse Visibility and Alerting
This course covers how to use RapidResponse to:
- Use scorecards to understand the state of the data and compare scenarios
- Monitor data
- Automate reports
- Create scorecards to compare metric results between scenarios and against targets
- Monitor scorecard results
Prerequisites: Introduction to
RapidResponse
Duration: 0.5 days
On-Site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Simulation and Collaboration
This course covers how to use RapidResponse to:
- Understand scenarios and their properties
- Change data by inserting or deleting records
- Import data from text files and Microsoft Excel
- Track data changes
- View conflicting data changes
- Split orders
- Edit dates
- Modify calculated values
- Edit crosstab data
- Initiate a collaboration with other users to solve business problems
- Participate in a collaboration exercise
- Use RapidResponse Message Center in collaboration exercises
Prerequisites:
Introduction to
RapidResponse and
RapidResponse Visibility and
Alerting
Duration: 1.5 days
On-site :
$1335.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$810.00 USD / participant
Solving business problems courses
Managing Supply and Supply Changes
This course covers how to use RapidResponse to view supply information and analyze the impact of supply disruptions using the Planning Sheet workbook. Also, the participants will learn how to view supplies at different levels of detail and step through processes to resolve supply problems, exhaust supply for a part, and compare historical required supply with historical committed supply.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Simulation and Collaboration
Duration: 0.5 days
On-site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Demand and Demand Changes
This course covers how to use RapidResponse resources to address the various business challenges related to managing customer demand at the finished goods level. In this course, participants step through processes to resolve late orders, respond to changes in finished goods supply, evaluate the impact of adding or changing orders, and respond to schedule changes.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Simulation and Collaboration
Duration: 0.5 days
On-site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Demand at the Component Level
This course covers how to use the RapidResponse resources to address the various business challenges related to managing customer demand that is being gated by lower level components. In this course, participants step through processes to resolve late orders caused by components, respond to changes in component supply, evaluate the impact of adding or changing orders, and respond to schedule changes.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Simulation and Collaboration
Duration: 0.5 days
On-site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Allocations to Forecast
This course covers how to use the RapidResponse resources to address the various business challenges related to managing the allocation of supply to customer forecasts. In this course, participants step through processes to solve business challenges such as allocating supply, responding to supply changes, evaluating the impact of forecast changes, and accepting customer forecast requests.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Simulation and Collaboration
Duration: 0.5 days
On-site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Allocation to Demand Sites
This course covers how to use the RapidResponse resources to address the various business challenges related to managing allocating supply to various sites in your organization. In this course, participants step through processes to solve business challenges such as allocating of supply, responding to supply changes, and managing the finished goods inventory to optimize company objectives.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Simulation and Collaboration
Duration: 0.5 days
On-site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Inventory
This course covers how to investigate inventory anomalies and identifying excess inventory and shortages using the Inventory Analysis workbook. It also demonstrates how to use processes to reduce the excess inventory and review inventory liabilities.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Simulation and Collaboration
Duration: 0.5 days
On-site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Bills of Material
This course covers how to view single level bills of material, understand how to use the BOM Analysis workbook and analyze changes such as an increase in a component's lead-time and modify option ratios. This course also covers how to set up and understand the results of a BOM compare and creating and using BOM filters.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Simulation and Collaboration
Duration: 0.5 days
On-site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Outsourced Manufacturing
This course covers how to address the various business challenges related to outsourced manufacturing. In this course, participants step through the task flows used to solve business challenges related to outsourced manufacturing. As well, participants learn about using scenario perspectives, and comparing contract manufacturer's and brand owner's bills of material.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Simulation and Collaboration
Duration: 1 day
On-site :
$890.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$540.00 USD / participant
Managing Replenishment with Kanban Manager
This course covers how to use the Kanban Manager feature to view kanban details and calculate new recommendations for either the number of bins or bin quantity associated with a kanban system. For example, you might want to calculate new bin recommendations in response to a demand change. This can help prevent unfavorable inventory conditions that might arise from not periodically reviewing kanban bin sizing.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Simulation and Collaboration
Duration: 0.5 days
On-site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Introduction to Managing Constraints
This course covers how to use the RapidResponse resources to create, view, and analyze the impact of constraint changes. As well, this course explains how to use constraints to manage limited supply or capacity conditions, and manage contract changeovers.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Simulation and Collaboration
Duration: 0.5 days
On-site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Capacity
This course covers how to use RapidResponse resources to effectively plan, monitor, and respond to capacity anomalies. Participants will also learn how to step through processes to align capacity with load, manage capacity changes, and evaluate the impact of a new customer demand on capacity.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Simulation and Collaboration
Duration: 0.5 days
On-site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Managing Cost Changes
This course covers how to use the Financial Analysis workbook to analyze cost changes (for example, the impact of supplier's price increase) and how to understand the BOM Analysis workbook from a cost perspective.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Simulation and Collaboration
Duration: 0.5 days
On-site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Using RapidResponse Engineering Change Manager
This course covers how to use the Engineering Change Manager application to determine the optimal time to phase in an engineering change.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Simulation and Collaboration
Duration: 0.5 days
On-site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Using Clear to Build
This course covers how production planners use the Clear to Build workbook to review production orders to determine what they can build immediately and what needs to wait. The Clear to Build workbook can also be used to change order properties.
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Simulation and Collaboration
Duration: 0.5 days
On-site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Authoring resource courses
RapidResponse Data Model
This course provides participants with an overview of the database design concepts
used in the
RapidResponse data model.
Participants learn how data is organized, table and field types, and receive a
hierarchical representation of primary tables in
RapidResponse. In addition,
users also learn about input, calculated, and control tables, along with their intended
uses, and understand which tables and fields to use when designing workbooks.
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse
Duration: 0.5 days
On-site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Authoring – Fundamentals
This course covers how to create simple filters, hierarchies, workbooks, and worksheets and use the RapidResponse Query Language to leverage the power of RapidResponse. As well, users learn how to create crosstab worksheets which drill to the details. This course also teaches how to create simple, compound, and conditional expressions. After attending this course, participants will understand the RapidResponse workbook development process and leave with a worksheet design template and the required skills to be successful at authoring RapidResponse resources.
Note: This course was previously titled RapidResponse Author I
Prerequisites: RapidResponse Datamodel
Duration: 2 days
On-site :
$1780.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$1080.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Collaboration Setup
This course teaches participants how to setup groups and assign group members the
responsibility for data. Participants will also learn to use the predefined
responsibility workbooks included with
RapidResponse and create new
collaboration workbooks.
Prerequisites:
RapidResponse Authoring -
Fundamentals.
Duration: 0.5 days
On-site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Authoring – Advanced
This course leverages the information learned in the RapidResponse Authoring - Fundamentals course and covers how to create more advanced workbooks, worksheets, and filters using the Rapid Response Query Language. Users also learn how to create set expressions so they can use fields from tables that have a many-to-one relationship. This course also teaches how to design macros and define profile variables. Upon completion of this course, participants will also be able to create metric workbooks.
Note: This course was previously titled RapidResponse Author II
Prerequisites:
RapidResponse Authoring -
Fundamentals
Duration: 1 day
On-site :
$890.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$540.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$540.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Authoring - Composite Worksheets and Inserts
This course teaches participants how to create worksheets based on multiple data tables (composite worksheets), create editable crosstab worksheets and insert dialog boxes.
Prerequisites:
RapidResponse Authoring - Fundamentals
Duration: 1 day
On-site :
$890.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$540.00 USD / participant
Administration courses
RapidResponse User Administration
This course is targeted at administrators who are responsible for the daily user management of RapidResponse. Typically, this type of administrator is a member of a company's IT Help Desk or a Rapid Response "power user". The course teaches how to manage user accounts and predefined resources such as workbooks, and set up RapidResponse Message Center and the alert service. Course participants also learn how to grant permissions to tools and resources, monitor system usage, specify user system settings, stop data queries, and disconnect users.
Prerequisites: Introduction to
RapidResponse
Duration: 0.5 days
On-site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
On Premises RapidResponse System Administration
This half-day course is targeted at RapidResponse On-Premises administrators who are responsible for the deployment and maintenance of the overall RapidResponse system. This course outlines the responsibilities of RapidResponse system administrators and provides an overview of the Rapid Response architecture and data flow. Course participants learn about Rapid Response system backup, log files and system notifications, and system configuration.
Prerequisites: Introduction to
RapidResponse
Duration: 0.5 days
On-site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
On Premises RapidResponse Data Administration
This course is targeted at RapidResponse administrators who are responsible for all aspects of bringing data into RapidResponse from their own enterprise systems, customers, suppliers, and contract manufacturers. Participants will learn troubleshooting techniques, how to add new sites, manage RapidResponse on a daily basis, schedule tasks, persist system of record data, and customize the RapidResponse data model.
Prerequisites: Introduction to
RapidResponse
Duration: 1.5 days
On-site :
$1335.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$810.00 USD / participant
On Demand RapidResponse System and Data Administration
This course is targeted at RapidResponse On-demand administrators who are responsible for providing the data to RapidResponse from their own enterprise systems, customers, suppliers and contract manufacturers. Participants will learn how to monitor the RapidResponse system, schedule tasks and set system configuration. This course outlines the responsibilities of both the RapidResponse system administrator and RapidResponse data administrator.
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse
Duration: 1 day
On-site :
$890.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$540.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Data Publishing
This course is targeted at contract manufacturers who are sharing data with brand
owners (sometimes called OEMs). This course explains how to set up
RapidResponse to publish data
to
RapidResponse subscribers and
how to set up and install the
RapidResponse data transfer
client.
Prerequisites: Introduction to
RapidResponse
Duration: 0.5 days
On-site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
RapidResponse Data Subscribing
This course is targeted at administrators responsible for bringing in data from
outside sources such as customers, suppliers, and contract manufacturers. This course
explains how to bring in data from other companies that use
RapidResponse and companies
that do not.
Prerequisites: Introduction to RapidResponse
Duration: 0.5 days
On-site :
$445.00 USD / participant
e-Learning :
$270.00 USD / participant
Developer courses
RapidResponse OpenAPI
This two-day course is designed to train developers in the use of the
RapidResponse OpenAPI to
extend and customize RapidResponse.
RapidResponse OpenAPI is a set
of registered Microsoft COM objects used to programmatically access the
RapidResponse Server. Custom
applications can use
RapidResponse OpenAPI to
retrieve data from
RapidResponse Server.
Note: This course is only delivered in classroom at the Kinaxis training
center in Ottawa, Canada.
Prerequisites: Introduction to
RapidResponse and the
RapidResponse authoring
courses.
On-site :
$1775.00 USD / participant
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