Warehousing and Procurement

Designing Strategies to Mitigate Supplier Disruption Risk

Turn supplier disruption mitigation from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Designing Strategies to Mitigate Supplier Disruption Risk
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Single sourcing on supplier disruption mitigation looks efficient until the day it is not. Inventory tied up in the procurement and supply operations discipline is capital the organisation cannot use elsewhere. Each session closes with a decision the participant must justify about this area of procurement and supply operations in their own setting. Practitioner evidence points the same way: supplier disruption mitigation improves fastest where responsibility for it is named and owned. The course leaves participants able to diagnose weaknesses in this strand of procurement and supply operations before they become incidents. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on the procurement and supply operations discipline are used deliberately. It establishes a shared vocabulary for supplier disruption mitigation so that teams can disagree productively about it. Most organisations already have a policy on this area of procurement and supply operations; far fewer can show it working. The programme ends where implementation begins, with the procurement and supply operations discipline broken into steps someone can start on Monday.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Plan the disposal or return route for obsolete and damaged stock in supplier disruption mitigation.

  • Assess continuity risk in supplier disruption mitigation and build a proportionate mitigation.

  • Establish escalation routes for supplier disruption mitigation that work outside normal hours.

  • Define the scope and boundaries of supplier disruption mitigation so that responsibility for it is unambiguous.

  • Estimate what supplier disruption mitigation costs to run properly, and what is lost when it is not.

  • Reduce the working capital tied up in supplier disruption mitigation without creating stock-outs.

  • Build the approval and segregation controls preventing procurement fraud in supplier disruption mitigation.

Who Should Attend

  • Technical staff being prepared for supervisory responsibility over supplier disruption mitigation.

  • Contract managers administering agreements covering supplier disruption mitigation.

  • Engineering and maintenance staff specifying requirements for supplier disruption mitigation.

  • Supplier relationship managers developing partners in supplier disruption mitigation.

  • Internal auditors examining controls over supplier disruption mitigation.

  • Department heads accountable for the results of supplier disruption mitigation.

Course Modules

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01

Supplier disruption mitigation: customs, documentation and cross-border movement

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The approval control on supplier disruption mitigation that prevents fraud

  • Review whether supplier disruption mitigation is aligned with the objectives of the supply function.
  • Identify single points of dependency in supplier disruption mitigation and reduce them.
  • Set the stock count cycle for supplier disruption mitigation and act on discrepancies.
  • Agree the escalation route when supply of supplier disruption mitigation is disrupted.

Session 2Documentation and customs treatment for supplier disruption mitigation

  • Check that supplier disruption mitigation still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
  • Reduce the variation in how supplier disruption mitigation is carried out between teams.
  • Calculate reorder point and safety stock for each item in supplier disruption mitigation.
  • Check the delivery terms and customs classification applied to supplier disruption mitigation.
02

Supplier disruption mitigation: controls, segregation and fraud prevention

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Evaluating suppliers on supplier disruption mitigation beyond the lowest number

  • Write the specification for supplier disruption mitigation so two suppliers would price it the same way.
  • Confirm traceability from supplier to point of use for supplier disruption mitigation.
  • Define the trigger that would require supplier disruption mitigation to be redesigned.
  • Identify where judgement in supplier disruption mitigation is legitimate and where it is not.

Session 2Making supplier performance on supplier disruption mitigation mean something

  • Set the consequence for failing service levels on supplier disruption mitigation, and apply it.
  • Estimate the resource supplier disruption mitigation requires to run as designed.
  • Plan the sequence in which improvements to supplier disruption mitigation will be introduced.
  • Rank the weaknesses in supplier disruption mitigation by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
03

Supplier disruption mitigation: warehouse layout, flow and handling

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1What has to be agreed before work on supplier disruption mitigation starts

  • Map the physical flow of supplier disruption mitigation through receiving, storage and dispatch.
  • Review whether inventory policy on supplier disruption mitigation still matches actual demand.
  • Draft the minimum viable sourcing procedure for supplier disruption mitigation.
  • Review the audit trail for the last three award decisions on supplier disruption mitigation.

Session 2What to measure in supplier disruption mitigation and what to ignore

  • Segment spend on supplier disruption mitigation by value and supply risk before choosing an approach.
  • Set out the decisions in supplier disruption mitigation that require sign-off and by whom.
  • Anticipate the objections supplier disruption mitigation will raise and prepare the answers.
  • Negotiate payment terms on supplier disruption mitigation without pushing suppliers into distress.
04

Supplier disruption mitigation: measurement, savings validation and reporting

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Proving the savings claimed on supplier disruption mitigation were real

  • Define acceptance criteria for supplier disruption mitigation in advance.
  • Assess supplier financial health for critical elements of supplier disruption mitigation.
  • Validate claimed savings on supplier disruption mitigation against actual invoiced spend.
  • Confirm that reporting on supplier disruption mitigation reaches the people who can act.

Session 2Building lasting competence in supplier disruption mitigation

  • Identify slow-moving and obsolete stock inside supplier disruption mitigation and decide its fate.
  • Check that records of supplier disruption mitigation answer the questions likely to be asked.
  • Record what was learned when supplier disruption mitigation did not go as planned.
  • Verify segregation between requisition, approval and receipt in supplier disruption mitigation.

Choose the package that suits you

Silver Package

At least 3 people

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

Gold Package

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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