Designing Multi-Source Supply Strategies to Reduce Dependence

Develop the judgement and the documentation needed to run multi-source supply strategy properly.

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

Course Overview

Warehouse performance on multi-source supply strategy is decided by layout and discipline long before technology. Most procurement disputes about this part of procurement and supply operations originate in a specification written too quickly. Participants who influence this strand of procurement and supply operations without directly controlling it will find the content directly usable. Moving multi-source supply strategy from written policy into daily practice is not achieved by a single decision. The teaching approach is deliberately practical: participants build a sourcing procedure for this part of procurement and supply operations as they go. The programme converts the procurement and supply operations capability from an area of general awareness into a set of repeatable practices. The result is the confidence to make and defend decisions about multi-source supply strategy under scrutiny. Benchmarking exercises repeatedly place this part of procurement and supply operations among the areas with the widest performance spread. Work concludes with a self-assessment of the wider procurement and supply operations agenda that participants can repeat annually.

Expected Learning Outcomes

01

Draw practical lessons from failures in multi-source supply strategy without assigning blame that suppresses reporting.

02

Write a specification for multi-source supply strategy that suppliers can price without guessing.

03

Evaluate suppliers for multi-source supply strategy on total cost of ownership, not unit price.

04

Build a supplier performance regime covering multi-source supply strategy with real consequences.

05

Integrate multi-source supply strategy into existing management routines rather than running it separately.

06

Align multi-source supply strategy with the wider objectives of the supply function rather than optimising it in isolation.

07

Reduce the working capital tied up in multi-source supply strategy without creating stock-outs.

Who Should Attend

01

Internal auditors examining controls over multi-source supply strategy.

02

Supply chain planners forecasting demand for multi-source supply strategy.

03

Logistics and distribution staff moving material in multi-source supply strategy.

04

Department heads accountable for the results of multi-source supply strategy.

05

Coordinators responsible for keeping records and documentation of multi-source supply strategy current.

06

Engineering and maintenance staff specifying requirements for multi-source supply strategy.

Course Modules

01

Multi-source supply strategy: supplier evaluation, award and contract terms

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Moving multi-source supply strategy from approval to execution

  • Evaluate multi-source supply strategy on total cost of ownership across the full life.
  • Segment spend on multi-source supply strategy by value and supply risk before choosing an approach.
  • Collect evidence on the present handling of multi-source supply strategy before proposing changes.
  • Check the delivery terms and customs classification applied to multi-source supply strategy.

Session 2The approval control on multi-source supply strategy that prevents fraud

  • Confirm traceability from supplier to point of use for multi-source supply strategy.
  • Benchmark the organisation's multi-source supply strategy against comparable operations.
  • Calculate reorder point and safety stock for each item in multi-source supply strategy.
  • Review the audit trail for the last three award decisions on multi-source supply strategy.
02

Multi-source supply strategy: controls, segregation and fraud prevention

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Documentation and customs treatment for multi-source supply strategy

  • Verify segregation between requisition, approval and receipt in multi-source supply strategy.
  • Identify where judgement in multi-source supply strategy is legitimate and where it is not.
  • Validate claimed savings on multi-source supply strategy against actual invoiced spend.
  • Map the handovers in multi-source supply strategy between functions and secure them.

Session 2Releasing working capital trapped in multi-source supply strategy

  • Identify single points of dependency in multi-source supply strategy and reduce them.
  • Map the physical flow of multi-source supply strategy through receiving, storage and dispatch.
  • Define measurable service levels in the contract covering multi-source supply strategy.
  • Arrange the handover of multi-source supply strategy so capability survives staff changes.
03

Multi-source supply strategy: supplier performance and relationship management

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The single point of failure inside multi-source supply strategy

  • Prepare the summary of multi-source supply strategy that senior management will read.
  • Agree the escalation route when supply of multi-source supply strategy is disrupted.
  • Define acceptance criteria for multi-source supply strategy in advance.
  • Distinguish symptoms from causes when multi-source supply strategy underperforms.

Session 2What has to be agreed before work on multi-source supply strategy starts

  • Set out the decisions in multi-source supply strategy that require sign-off and by whom.
  • Record what was learned when multi-source supply strategy did not go as planned.
  • Assess supplier financial health for critical elements of multi-source supply strategy.
  • Confirm that contractual obligations around multi-source supply strategy are understood.
04

Multi-source supply strategy: sourcing strategy and market approach

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Testing multi-source supply strategy before relying on it

  • Establish the boundary of multi-source supply strategy and record what sits outside it.
  • Name a single owner for each element of multi-source supply strategy.
  • Set the review interval for multi-source supply strategy and who attends.
  • Review whether inventory policy on multi-source supply strategy still matches actual demand.

Session 2Choosing the right sourcing approach for multi-source supply strategy

  • Set the stock count cycle for multi-source supply strategy and act on discrepancies.
  • Compare the cost of multi-source supply strategy with the cost of its absence.
  • Identify slow-moving and obsolete stock inside multi-source supply strategy and decide its fate.
  • Identify single-source dependencies in multi-source supply strategy and cost the alternatives.

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