COURSE DURATION: 40 HOURS

ASSESSMENT: TWO AND A HALF HOUR MULTIPLE CHOICE EXAMINATION

This course is designed for those who are currently practicing quality and are in, or aspire to leadership or senior management roles.

• 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
  • Information flow, order cycles, inventory, logistics
  • Contracts and legal aspects
  • Lifetime economic effectiveness
  • Warehouse management, international trade/freight, materials planning
  • 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

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