Learning outcomes

On completion of this course you will have the skills and knowledge to plan, prepare, conduct, report and follow up on supplier quality audits.

Outline content

Day 1

• Introductions
• Course objectives
• Standards and terminology
• Supplier management principles
  
  • Exercise: Supplier selection and evaluation
• Responsibilities and audit management
• Audit planning and preparation
  • Exercise: Audit planning and preparation
• Review and close day 1

Day 2

• Review day1
• Conducting the audit
  • Exercise: Audit conduct - role play
• Audit reporting
  • Exercise: Audit report preparation
• Corrective and audit follow up
• Review, close and delegate feedback

Who should attend?

This course is suitable for anyone who is required to perform supplier management system audits or who has management oversight of a company supplier management programme.

Achievement

Upon completion of this course all participants will receive a "Certificate of Attendance".

What's included?

All delegates undertaking the course will be provided with log-on access to the "Audit Tools" section on our website which contains downloadable tools such as audit schedules, checklists, report formats etc which you are free to download, use and customise to your own system.

A full set of course notes.

Prerequisites

No prior knowledge or experience of auditing is required or expected.