PR305: Leading Supply
Chain Assurance

The Leading Supply Chain Assurance (PR305) course will develop your skills to ensure stakeholder requirements are meet across the supply chain.


Level: Professional Level
Course duration: 40 hours indicative (12 Weeks)
Classroom Based or Distance Learning Course
Minimum of 4 delegates for In-House Training

Course Content

Organisational drivers for outsourcing – benefits, opportunities and risks.

Organisational aspects of supply chain structures:

  • Deciding which processes to outsource and which to retain

  • Innovation and partnering

  • Organisational focus

  • Economic efficiency

  • Capabilities

Introduction to supply chain management:

  • Roles

  • Processes

  • Contract management

  • Sustainability

  • Optimisation

Procurement and supply policies:

  • Introduction to the implications for procurement of the World Economic Forum

  • Environmental and socially sustainable procurement

  • Supply policies (fraud, bribery, corruption, environmental law, fair trade, reputation and human rights)

Supply chain management techniques:

  • Tenders and supplier selection

    1. Information flow, order cycles, inventory, logistics

    2. Contracts and legal aspects

    3. Lifetime economic effectiveness

    4. Warehouse management, international trade/freight, materials planning

    5. Technology – supply chain management systems

Supplier development assurance:

  • Roles in supply chain assurance.

  • Audit planning and management – accountability and auditability.

  • Developing and managing supplier audit programmes.

  • Managing risk in a supply chain.

  • Partnering and improvement in the supply chain network.

  • Supplier development strategies.

  • Supplier development assurance and management – accountability and auditability.

  • Leading advanced quality planning with suppliers

Assessment:

This course includes a two-and-a-half-hour multiple choice examination.

PR305 Leading Supply Chain Assurance

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