Building Compliance Programmes for International Trade Legislation

Course Overview

Single sourcing on international trade compliance looks efficient until the day it is not. Inventory tied up in this aspect of procurement and supply operations is capital the organisation cannot use elsewhere. The result is the confidence to make and defend decisions about this area of procurement and supply operations under scrutiny. Progress on international trade compliance is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on the practice within procurement and supply operations are used deliberately. Comparative studies of this area of procurement and supply operations across sectors find the same handful of failure points recurring. The course gives participants a defensible structure for international trade compliance and the judgement to adapt it. Exercises escalate in difficulty, ending with the ambiguous situations that make the practice within procurement and supply operations hard in practice. Participants leave with a first-ninety-days plan for this part of procurement and supply operations rather than a set of notes.