Workshop Overview
The performance of suppliers significantly influences a company’s overall performance, particularly as supply chains grow longer and more intricate, with inputs sourced globally. Careful supplier selection and robust evaluation systems are crucial to prevent disruptions in product and service supply. This workshop aims to empower delegates with the necessary knowledge for effective supplier management.
The course covers comprehensive aspects of supplier quality assurance, encompassing supplier risk assessments, approval procedures, and monitoring programs.
Learning is made fun & practical
Progress Excellence takes a unique approach to training in food safety, quality, health and safety, environmental and laboratory:
- Sector specific examples are used to ensure relevance and understanding of the topic.
- All our training modules are highly interactive with practical activities that entrench theoretical learning.
- We provide templates and helpful implementation plans.
Our aim is to equip delegates in such a way that they can practically implement and improve their systems.
Progress Excellence Approach
- Dissecting the requirements of international Food Safety Standards to understand the requirements related to supplier quality assurance from a global perspective.
- Explaining the methodology of a supplier and material risk assessment.
- Facilitate the development of a supplier quality assurance programme.
- Practical guidance on how to approve and monitor material and service suppliers.
- Providing a checklist to determine the relevant improvements that can be made to the supplier quality assurance programme.
The course will equip delegates with the following:
- Understand the requirements of supplier quality assurance from various International Standards
- Awareness of the purpose, objectives and benefits of supplier quality assurance
- Ability to perform a supplier risk assessment
- Understand the practical implications and methods of evaluating, approving and monitoring of suppliers.
The course is best suited to the following audiences:
- HACCP food safety team leaders
- Quality/Technical Manager & Procurement Managers
- HACCP food safety team members (Engineers, Microbiologists, Quality Controllers, Production staff, R&D/NPD staff, Logistics personnel, Buyers)
- Staff tasked with the implementation, maintenance and improvement of the supplier quality assurance system
