Designing Criteria to Classify Suppliers by Quality Performance

A concise, decision-focused programme covering supplier quality classification end to end.

📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points

Course Overview

The cost of poor quality in supplier quality classification is rarely visible in any single budget line. Improvement in the practice within quality and productivity management that is not measured tends to be reversed quietly. The programme suits teams tackling the quality and productivity management capability together as readily as individuals attending alone. Discussion is anchored to worked examples of supplier quality classification rather than to abstract argument. It treats the practice within quality and productivity management as an operating discipline and equips participants to run it as one. Improvement in this part of quality and productivity management stalls when it depends on one capable individual rather than a defined method. Field experience suggests that the barrier to better supplier quality classification is rarely technical. The programme builds the judgement to know which parts of the quality and productivity management capability to standardise and which to leave flexible. The programme closes with an action plan for this part of quality and productivity management that each participant writes for their own organisation.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Establish what evidence would demonstrate that supplier quality classification is under control.

02

Establish supplier quality requirements affecting supplier quality classification.

03

Build a register of the risks attaching to supplier quality classification and keep it current.

04

Standardise work in supplier quality classification without removing necessary judgement.

05

Apply structured problem solving to recurring defects in supplier quality classification.

06

Assess the current state of supplier quality classification against a structured set of criteria rather than impressions.

07

Design control plans for supplier quality classification that detect deviation early.

Who Should Attend

01

Process and industrial engineers redesigning supplier quality classification.

02

Continuous improvement specialists working on supplier quality classification.

03

Consultants and advisers supporting clients on supplier quality classification.

04

Training officers building problem-solving capability in supplier quality classification.

05

Public sector officials applying supplier quality classification within a regulated framework.

06

Finance staff quantifying the cost of quality in supplier quality classification.

Course Modules

01

Supplier quality classification: benchmarking and continual improvement

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Sampling supplier quality classification on evidence rather than convention

  • Rank the weaknesses in supplier quality classification by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
  • Choose productivity measures for supplier quality classification that do not reward shortcuts.
  • Set sampling for supplier quality classification on statistical grounds, not on habit.
  • Benchmark supplier quality classification against a comparable operation and record the gap.

Session 2Building lasting competence in supplier quality classification

  • Design the internal audit schedule covering supplier quality classification.
  • Record what was tried on supplier quality classification and did not work, and why.
  • Establish the boundary of supplier quality classification and record what sits outside it.
  • Confirm that reporting on supplier quality classification reaches the people who can act.
02

Supplier quality classification: internal audit and certification evidence

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Finding the variation that matters in supplier quality classification

  • Set escalation thresholds for supplier quality classification that work out of hours.
  • Remove steps in supplier quality classification that add effort without adding assurance.
  • Benchmark the organisation's supplier quality classification against comparable operations.
  • Write standard work for supplier quality classification with the people who perform it.

Session 2What has to be agreed before work on supplier quality classification starts

  • Identify the few causes responsible for most defects in supplier quality classification.
  • Check that supplier quality classification still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
  • Agree what will be standardised in supplier quality classification and what will not.
  • Map the process behind supplier quality classification by walking it, not by describing it.
03

Supplier quality classification: standard work and sustaining gains

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Standard work for supplier quality classification without deskilling it

  • Rehearse the briefing on supplier quality classification that would follow an incident.
  • Arrange the handover of supplier quality classification so capability survives staff changes.
  • Define the trigger that would require supplier quality classification to be redesigned.
  • Train the team handling supplier quality classification in the problem-solving method being used.

Session 2Mapping supplier quality classification as it is done, not as it is written

  • Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in supplier quality classification.
  • Assemble certification evidence for supplier quality classification as work proceeds, not before the audit.
  • Verify six months later that changes to supplier quality classification have held.
  • Set the review interval for supplier quality classification and who attends.
04

Supplier quality classification: waste, flow and productivity

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Removing steps from supplier quality classification that add no value

  • Verify that improvements to supplier quality classification held six months later.
  • Apply structured root cause analysis to the top defect in supplier quality classification.
  • Set the review cadence that sustains gains in supplier quality classification.
  • Build a control plan for supplier quality classification identifying what is checked, when and by whom.

Session 2Where supplier quality classification typically breaks, and why

  • Measure current variation in supplier quality classification before attempting improvement.
  • Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for supplier quality classification.
  • Identify non-value-adding steps in supplier quality classification and remove them.
  • Name a single owner for each element of supplier quality classification.

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USD1,250
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  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
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  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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USD1,850
  • 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
  • Workshop or Program Participation
  • Airport Transfers
  • Customized Badge
  • Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
  • Supervision & Secretarial Services
  • Accredited Certificate of Participation
  • Complete Training Kit
  • Coffee Break
  • Closing Ceremony

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