Establish escalation routes for agile supply chains that work outside normal hours.
Agile Supply Chains in a Volatile Environment
Build a working method for agile supply chains that stands up to scrutiny and survives daily pressure.
📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Inventory tied up in agile supply chains is capital the organisation cannot use elsewhere. Warehouse performance on this area of procurement and supply operations is decided by layout and discipline long before technology. Comparative studies of the practice within procurement and supply operations across sectors find the same handful of failure points recurring. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of agile supply chains and supervised application. Participants leave with a method for the procurement and supply operations discipline, not a set of opinions about it. The programme suits teams tackling this strand of procurement and supply operations together as readily as individuals attending alone. What blocks progress on agile supply chains is usually unclear ownership rather than unclear intent. They acquire practical criteria for judging when this aspect of procurement and supply operations is working and when it is only appearing to. The closing exercise tests whether the participant's plan for the procurement and supply operations discipline survives a hostile question.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Set the minimum documentation for agile supply chains that is genuinely necessary, and stop there.
Set acceptance criteria for agile supply chains before work begins rather than after.
Build a supplier performance regime covering agile supply chains with real consequences.
Evaluate suppliers for agile supply chains on total cost of ownership, not unit price.
Plan the disposal or return route for obsolete and damaged stock in agile supply chains.
Integrate agile supply chains with demand forecasting and production planning.
Who Should Attend
Managers with direct responsibility for agile supply chains within the supply function.
Procurement and category managers responsible for agile supply chains.
Officers preparing reports on agile supply chains for boards or oversight committees.
Engineering and maintenance staff specifying requirements for agile supply chains.
Internal auditors examining controls over agile supply chains.
Contract managers administering agreements covering agile supply chains.
Course Modules
Agile supply chains: inventory policy and working capital
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Comparing agile supply chains with recognised practice
- Check that records of agile supply chains answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around agile supply chains are understood.
- Review the audit trail for the last three award decisions on agile supply chains.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of agile supply chains current.
Session 2Writing a specification for agile supply chains suppliers can price accurately
- Rank the weaknesses in agile supply chains by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Benchmark the organisation's agile supply chains against comparable operations.
- Define acceptance criteria for agile supply chains in advance.
- Agree the escalation route when supply of agile supply chains is disrupted.
Agile supply chains: customs, documentation and cross-border movement
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Contract terms on agile supply chains that survive execution
- Set the consequence for failing service levels on agile supply chains, and apply it.
- Rehearse the briefing on agile supply chains that would follow an incident.
- Close out actions on agile supply chains rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Evaluate agile supply chains on total cost of ownership across the full life.
Session 2Setting reorder points and safety stock for agile supply chains
- Validate claimed savings on agile supply chains against actual invoiced spend.
- Assess supplier financial health for critical elements of agile supply chains.
- Review whether inventory policy on agile supply chains still matches actual demand.
- Apply ethical and environmental criteria to supplier selection in agile supply chains.
Agile supply chains: sourcing strategy and market approach
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The cost of agile supply chains and how to present it
- Map the physical flow of agile supply chains through receiving, storage and dispatch.
- Confirm traceability from supplier to point of use for agile supply chains.
- Identify single-source dependencies in agile supply chains and cost the alternatives.
- Verify segregation between requisition, approval and receipt in agile supply chains.
Session 2Moving agile supply chains from approval to execution
- Check the delivery terms and customs classification applied to agile supply chains.
- Establish the boundary of agile supply chains and record what sits outside it.
- Agree the smallest change to agile supply chains that would be visibly useful.
- Define measurable service levels in the contract covering agile supply chains.
Agile supply chains: measurement, savings validation and reporting
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Documentation and customs treatment for agile supply chains
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about agile supply chains.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether agile supply chains is improving.
- Calculate reorder point and safety stock for each item in agile supply chains.
- Confirm that reporting on agile supply chains reaches the people who can act.
Session 2The approval control on agile supply chains that prevents fraud
- Prepare the summary of agile supply chains that senior management will read.
- Identify single points of dependency in agile supply chains and reduce them.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to agile supply chains will be introduced.
- Segment spend on agile supply chains by value and supply risk before choosing an approach.
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- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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