Warehousing and Procurement

Designing Supply Continuity Plans in Critical Sectors

Practical training in critical sector supply continuity, grounded in real cases and applied to your own operation.

  • 5training days
  • 4modules
  • 8sessions
  • 32topics
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Designing Supply Continuity Plans in Critical Sectors
5days

About the programme

Course Overview

Single sourcing on critical sector supply continuity looks efficient until the day it is not. Savings claimed on supply continuity at signature are frequently lost during execution. Participants test their assumptions about the wider procurement and supply operations agenda against scenarios designed to break weak ones. The programme is built to be used, and every section of critical sector supply continuity it covers ends in something applicable. They acquire practical criteria for judging when the procurement and supply operations discipline is working and when it is only appearing to. Practitioner evidence points the same way: supply continuity improves fastest where responsibility for it is named and owned. Progress on critical sector supply continuity is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. The programme suits teams tackling supply continuity together as readily as individuals attending alone. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on the procurement and supply operations capability ready to put in front of a decision maker.

Expected Learning Outcomes

  • Write a specification for critical sector supply continuity that suppliers can price without guessing.

  • Apply the correct customs, international delivery terms and documentation treatment to supply continuity.

  • Establish escalation routes for critical sector supply continuity that work outside normal hours.

  • Build a supplier performance regime covering supply continuity with real consequences.

  • Align critical sector supply continuity with the wider objectives of the supply function rather than optimising it in isolation.

  • Build the internal capability for supply continuity rather than depending on external support indefinitely.

  • Evaluate suppliers for critical sector supply continuity on total cost of ownership, not unit price.

Who Should Attend

  • Inventory controllers managing stock within critical sector supply continuity.

  • Technical staff being prepared for supervisory responsibility over supply continuity.

  • Finance staff reviewing spend and working capital in critical sector supply continuity.

  • Quality staff verifying that supply continuity performs as designed.

  • Contract managers administering agreements covering critical sector supply continuity.

  • Supply chain planners forecasting demand for supply continuity.

Course Modules

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01

Critical sector supply continuity: controls, segregation and fraud prevention

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1The approval control on critical sector supply continuity that prevents fraud

  • Set out the decisions in critical sector supply continuity that require sign-off and by whom.
  • Build the internal briefing that explains supply continuity to those affected.
  • Evaluate critical sector supply continuity on total cost of ownership across the full life.
  • Reduce the variation in how supply continuity is carried out between teams.

Session 2Proving the savings claimed on supply continuity were real

  • Apply ethical and environmental criteria to supplier selection in critical sector supply continuity.
  • Identify single-source dependencies in supply continuity and cost the alternatives.
  • Agree the escalation route when supply of critical sector supply continuity is disrupted.
  • Define measurable service levels in the contract covering supply continuity.
02

Supply continuity: warehouse layout, flow and handling

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Contract terms on supply continuity that survive execution

  • Segment spend on critical sector supply continuity by value and supply risk before choosing an approach.
  • Agree the smallest change to supply continuity that would be visibly useful.
  • Estimate the resource critical sector supply continuity requires to run as designed.
  • Review the audit trail for the last three award decisions on supply continuity.

Session 2Evaluating suppliers on supply continuity beyond the lowest number

  • Negotiate payment terms on critical sector supply continuity without pushing suppliers into distress.
  • Test the procedure for supply continuity against a realistic scenario.
  • Identify single points of dependency in critical sector supply continuity and reduce them.
  • Assess supplier financial health for critical elements of supply continuity.
03

Supply continuity: measurement, savings validation and reporting

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Keeping supply continuity alive after the initial push

  • Set the consequence for failing service levels on critical sector supply continuity, and apply it.
  • Draft the minimum viable sourcing procedure for supply continuity.
  • Check that critical sector supply continuity still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
  • Identify slow-moving and obsolete stock inside supply continuity and decide its fate.

Session 2Getting other functions to support critical sector supply continuity

  • Calculate reorder point and safety stock for each item in critical sector supply continuity.
  • Set the review interval for supply continuity and who attends.
  • Set the stock count cycle for critical sector supply continuity and act on discrepancies.
  • Compare the cost of supply continuity with the cost of its absence.
04

Supply continuity: customs, documentation and cross-border movement

2 sessions · 8 points

Session 1Writing a specification for supply continuity suppliers can price accurately

  • Verify segregation between requisition, approval and receipt in critical sector supply continuity.
  • Validate claimed savings on supply continuity against actual invoiced spend.
  • Define the trigger that would require critical sector supply continuity to be redesigned.
  • Build the competence framework that supports supply continuity.

Session 2Testing supply continuity before relying on it

  • Review whether inventory policy on critical sector supply continuity still matches actual demand.
  • Define acceptance criteria for supply continuity in advance.
  • Prepare the summary of critical sector supply continuity that senior management will read.
  • Close out actions on supply continuity rather than leaving them open indefinitely.

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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