Prepare the audit trail for every award decision under supply chain early warning.
Designing Early Warning Systems for Supply Chain Risk
Learn to design, measure and defend your organisation's approach to supply chain early warning.
📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Most procurement disputes about supply chain early warning originate in a specification written too quickly. Warehouse performance on early warning is decided by layout and discipline long before technology. The course sets out a working method for the wider procurement and supply operations agenda that participants can apply the week they return. Ambition around supply chain early warning outruns capacity unless the sequencing is deliberate. The level assumes working familiarity with the supply function but no prior formal training in the practice within procurement and supply operations. Comparative studies of early warning across sectors find the same handful of failure points recurring. Participants take away a working set of documents supporting supply chain early warning, ready to be adapted internally. The programme uses small-group work so that each participant's treatment of early warning is examined, not just described. The final module sets out how progress on the procurement and supply operations capability will be evidenced six months later.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Assess continuity risk in early warning and build a proportionate mitigation.
Write a specification for supply chain early warning that suppliers can price without guessing.
Plan the handover of early warning so that capability is not lost when key staff move on.
Present the case for investment in supply chain early warning in terms that a finance function will accept.
Negotiate payment terms on early warning that improve cash without damaging supply.
Establish escalation routes for supply chain early warning that work outside normal hours.
Who Should Attend
Supply chain planners forecasting demand for supply chain early warning.
Quality staff inspecting incoming material in early warning.
Business partners who must understand supply chain early warning well enough to challenge it.
Managers with direct responsibility for early warning within the supply function.
Supplier relationship managers developing partners in supply chain early warning.
Finance staff reviewing spend and working capital in early warning.
Course Modules
Supply chain early warning: customs, documentation and cross-border movement
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Evaluating suppliers on supply chain early warning beyond the lowest number
- Set the stock count cycle for supply chain early warning and act on discrepancies.
- Review whether early warning is aligned with the objectives of the supply function.
- Confirm traceability from supplier to point of use for supply chain early warning.
- Set the review interval for early warning and who attends.
Session 2Making supplier performance on early warning mean something
- Write the specification for supply chain early warning so two suppliers would price it the same way.
- Establish the boundary of early warning and record what sits outside it.
- Build the competence framework that supports supply chain early warning.
- Verify six months later that changes to early warning have held.
Early warning: specification, requirement and demand
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The paperwork for early warning that is actually needed
- Calculate reorder point and safety stock for each item in supply chain early warning.
- Segment spend on early warning by value and supply risk before choosing an approach.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to supply chain early warning will be introduced.
- Set the consequence for failing service levels on early warning, and apply it.
Session 2The decisions in early warning that cannot be delegated
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in supply chain early warning.
- Assess supplier financial health for critical elements of early warning.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on supply chain early warning.
- Review whether inventory policy on early warning still matches actual demand.
Early warning: supplier evaluation, award and contract terms
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The single point of failure inside early warning
- Collect evidence on the present handling of supply chain early warning before proposing changes.
- Identify single-source dependencies in early warning and cost the alternatives.
- Build the internal briefing that explains supply chain early warning to those affected.
- Remove steps in early warning that add effort without adding assurance.
Session 2What has to be agreed before work on supply chain early warning starts
- Validate claimed savings on supply chain early warning against actual invoiced spend.
- Prepare the summary of early warning that senior management will read.
- Agree the escalation route when supply of supply chain early warning is disrupted.
- Identify slow-moving and obsolete stock inside early warning and decide its fate.
Early warning: warehouse layout, flow and handling
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Releasing working capital trapped in early warning
- Verify segregation between requisition, approval and receipt in supply chain early warning.
- Negotiate payment terms on early warning without pushing suppliers into distress.
- Map the physical flow of supply chain early warning through receiving, storage and dispatch.
- Rank the weaknesses in early warning by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
Session 2Laying out the warehouse around how early warning actually moves
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in supply chain early warning.
- Identify where judgement in early warning is legitimate and where it is not.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when supply chain early warning underperforms.
- Evaluate early warning on total cost of ownership across the full life.
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USD1,250
- 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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At least 3 people
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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