Integrate supplier due diligence into existing management routines rather than running it separately.
Designing Due Diligence Programmes for New Suppliers
A senior-level treatment of supplier due diligence, focused on what changes outcomes.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Most procurement disputes about supplier due diligence originate in a specification written too quickly. Inventory tied up in this strand of procurement and supply operations is capital the organisation cannot use elsewhere. A common pattern is strong design of the wider procurement and supply operations agenda paired with weak follow-through. The most reliable predictor of sound supplier due diligence is whether anyone reviews it when nothing has gone wrong. The outcome is a practitioner who can hold a position on this aspect of procurement and supply operations and revise it on evidence. The programme takes participants through this area of procurement and supply operations end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. Cases are chosen to expose the trade-offs in supplier due diligence rather than to illustrate ideal conditions. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on the procurement and supply operations discipline are used deliberately. The final session converts the week's work on this area of procurement and supply operations into commitments with owners and dates.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Apply the correct customs, international delivery terms and documentation treatment to supplier due diligence.
Establish traceability from supplier through storage to point of use for supplier due diligence.
Plan the disposal or return route for obsolete and damaged stock in supplier due diligence.
Segment spend on supplier due diligence and apply a sourcing strategy proportionate to risk and value.
Present the case for investment in supplier due diligence in terms that a finance function will accept.
Prepare a short, evidence-based briefing on supplier due diligence for senior management.
Who Should Attend
Business partners who must understand supplier due diligence well enough to challenge it.
Supplier relationship managers developing partners in supplier due diligence.
Internal auditors examining controls over supplier due diligence.
Internal auditors reviewing how supplier due diligence is designed and operated.
Logistics and distribution staff moving material in supplier due diligence.
Public sector tendering officers applying supplier due diligence under procurement regulation.
Course Modules
Supplier due diligence: inventory policy and working capital
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What has to be agreed before work on supplier due diligence starts
- Map the handovers in supplier due diligence between functions and secure them.
- Rehearse the briefing on supplier due diligence that would follow an incident.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to supplier due diligence.
- Identify slow-moving and obsolete stock inside supplier due diligence and decide its fate.
Session 2Who answers for supplier due diligence, and to whom
- Remove steps in supplier due diligence that add effort without adding assurance.
- Identify single-source dependencies in supplier due diligence and cost the alternatives.
- Negotiate payment terms on supplier due diligence without pushing suppliers into distress.
- Confirm that those complying with supplier due diligence understand why it exists.
Supplier due diligence: continuity, risk and single points of failure
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Contract terms on supplier due diligence that survive execution
- Agree the escalation route when supply of supplier due diligence is disrupted.
- Check the delivery terms and customs classification applied to supplier due diligence.
- Evaluate supplier due diligence on total cost of ownership across the full life.
- Apply ethical and environmental criteria to supplier selection in supplier due diligence.
Session 2The cost of supplier due diligence and how to present it
- Agree the indicators that will show whether supplier due diligence is improving.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of supplier due diligence current.
- Test the procedure for supplier due diligence against a realistic scenario.
- Set the stock count cycle for supplier due diligence and act on discrepancies.
Supplier due diligence: measurement, savings validation and reporting
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The single point of failure inside supplier due diligence
- Review the audit trail for the last three award decisions on supplier due diligence.
- Assess supplier financial health for critical elements of supplier due diligence.
- Agree what will be standardised in supplier due diligence and what will not.
- Define measurable service levels in the contract covering supplier due diligence.
Session 2Proving the savings claimed on supplier due diligence were real
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when supplier due diligence underperforms.
- Verify segregation between requisition, approval and receipt in supplier due diligence.
- Prepare the summary of supplier due diligence that senior management will read.
- Collect evidence on the present handling of supplier due diligence before proposing changes.
Supplier due diligence: supplier performance and relationship management
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The approval control on supplier due diligence that prevents fraud
- Segment spend on supplier due diligence by value and supply risk before choosing an approach.
- Compare the cost of supplier due diligence with the cost of its absence.
- Confirm traceability from supplier to point of use for supplier due diligence.
- Write the specification for supplier due diligence so two suppliers would price it the same way.
Session 2Releasing working capital trapped in supplier due diligence
- Benchmark the organisation's supplier due diligence against comparable operations.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to supplier due diligence will be introduced.
- Close out actions on supplier due diligence rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Calculate reorder point and safety stock for each item in supplier due diligence.
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