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Format: Live Virtual/ Face-to-Face

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Learn how to effectively select, audit, and manage suppliers for maximum organizational benefit.

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This curriculum is designed for experienced quality professionals that are new or relatively new to supplier quality and supplier management. The curriculum is comprised of three separate, interrelated courses:

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• Introduction to Supplier Management: Introduces you to foundational supplier management concepts and principles and teaches you how to design and implement a supplier management program

• Auditing for Improved Supplier Performance: Emphasizes the importance of auditing suppliers to ensure continuous improvement and shows you how to develop an effective supplier auditing system

• Quality/Engineering Tools for Supplier Management: Describes quality and engineering tools you can use to manage suppliers across all seven phases of the supplier management process; Risk Management, Selection, Part Qualification, Evaluation—Problem Identification, Development and Improvement, Performance Monitoring, Supplier Re-evaluation

 

To ensure a robust, engaging learning experience, all three courses leverage case studies, individual and group activities, hands-on exercises, and knowledge checks to help you transform the conceptual into the practical.

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Learning Objectives:

• Define a supplier management program and why it is important

• Assess the status of your organization’s existing supplier management program

• Build a supplier management toolkit including a supplier rating system, supplier surveys and audits, supplier process evaluation, supplier certification, ship-to-stock programs

• Assess and evaluate your current supply base to determine suitability to your organization’s needs

• Improve your existing supplier base using effective communication strategies and the proper corrective actions

• Assess and select new suppliers and properly onboard them leveraging agreements, contracts, and purchase orders

• Certify a supplier

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Course Outline:

 

Introduction to Supplier Management 

1. Supplier Management Programs—An Overview 

2. Assessing Your Supplier Management Program

3. Building a Supplier Management Toolkit 

4. Taking Inventory of Your Existing Supplier Base 

5. Improving Your Existing Supplier Base

6. Selecting New Suppliers

7. Certifying a Supplier 

 

Auditing for Improved Supplier Performance 

1. Supplier  Auditing for Improved Supplier Performance: Overview

2. Prepare to Audit a Supplier

3. Perform a Supplier Audit

4. Review the Results of a Supplier Audit and Taking Action

5. Opportunities for Improved Supplier Performance

 

Quality/Engineering Tools for Supplier Management 

1. Supplier Management Tools—An Overview

2. Risk Management Tools

3. Supplier Selection Tools

4. Part Qualification Tools

5. Supplier Evaluation—Problem Identification

6. Supplier Development and Improvement

7. Supplier Performance Monitoring Tools

8. Supplier Re-evaluation

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Who Should Attend:

The ISQP curriculum is an excellent tool for experienced quality professionals that are new or relatively new to supplier quality and supplier management.

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Course Duration:  40 hours (5 days)

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ASQ RU (Recertification Units):  under Continuing Education

• 3.7 RU for Face-to-Face training

• 4.0 RU for Live Virtual training 

 

Training Days: 

• Live Virtual program: (One of the following options)

  • 5- Saturdays / 5- Sundays, 09.00 to 18.00 Hr 

  • 10- Weekdays (Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri), 18.00 to 22.00 Hr 

• Face-to-Face program:

  • 5- Weekdays (Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri), 09.00 to 18.00 Hr 

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Language of Instruction: English

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​​Instructor: Seetharam Kandarpa (ASQConnex Expert)

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For Organization specific training class (of 5-15 students) / other queries: Contact Us

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About ASQ ConnEx:

ASQConnEx is an education delivery system and network that vets, designates, and connects quality subject matter experts with organizations to advance their excellence journey. Organizations can build competencies needed to achieve strategic objectives by engaging a vast network of ASQ-authorized subject matter experts in the field of quality. Experts gain a professional advantage by aligning with the world’s leading quality association and gaining access to ASQ-licensed education and certification preparation content. The end result- Empowering individuals, organizations, and communities to achieve excellence through quality. For more details, refer https://asq.org/asqconnex

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