Five-day professional development program. Approximately 25-30 training hours. Final arrangements are confirmed in writing.
Course Overview
Assess external dependencies and coordinate supplier resilience expectations.
This five-day professional development program focuses on supplier criticality and service dependencies, due diligence and evidence requests, contract responsibilities and review routines. Participants connect the learning with their organizational responsibilities and develop a supplier security and continuity review framework.
The program uses fictional or anonymized cases and management-level exercises. It can be adapted for an organization or a mixed professional group.
Learning Outcomes
Explain the responsibilities and evidence needed for supplier criticality and service dependencies.
Evaluate management arrangements for due diligence and evidence requests.
Develop a practical working approach to contract responsibilities and review routines.
Recommend review and follow-up arrangements for disruption coordination and improvement actions.
Prepare and present a supplier security and continuity review framework supported by clear assumptions, priorities and accountable actions.
Who Should Attend
Risk and continuity managers, security leaders, operational managers, crisis team members and senior professionals responsible for organizational resilience.
Relevant organizational or supervisory experience is recommended. Participant responsibilities, prior knowledge and learning objectives are reviewed before confirming the agenda.
Training Methodology
Instructor-led discussion, anonymized case analysis, guided drafting, group exercises, peer review and a final applied presentation.
Learning assessment combines a baseline discussion, review of practical outputs and an end-of-program action plan. The final assessment and completion requirements are agreed in the proposal.
Course Tools and Templates
Supplier criticality and service dependencies worksheet — indicative workshop output.
Due diligence and evidence requests worksheet — indicative workshop output.
Contract responsibilities and review routines worksheet — indicative workshop output.
Disruption coordination and improvement actions worksheet — indicative workshop output.
Supplier security and continuity review framework — indicative workshop output.
Delivery Requirements
Available by arrangement as classroom, live online or in-house training. Standard duration: five training days, approximately 25-30 hours. Online timing and time zone are agreed with the organization.
A laptop and standard document-editing software are recommended for drafting exercises. Cases can be completed with fictional information; confidential operational documents are not required.
This is an independent professional development program. No ICAO, IATA, ASIS or regulatory accreditation, official certification or authorization is claimed. Any regulated role-specific training must be arranged with appropriately approved providers.
Course Customization
The agenda can emphasize supplier criticality and service dependencies or disruption coordination and improvement actions according to the participant roles and organizational priorities.
Dates, destination, trainer profile, fees, training language, included services and certificate wording are confirmed in a written proposal. No scheduled session or fixed price is implied by this page.
Proposed Five-Day Course Outline
Day 1 – Supplier criticality and service dependencies
Establish the scope of supplier criticality and service dependencies. Map responsibilities and evidence needs, and compare the current position with the desired management outcome.
Practical output: Supplier criticality and service dependencies worksheet
Day 2 – Due diligence and evidence requests
Examine due diligence and evidence requests through an anonymized organizational case. Identify gaps, document assumptions and compare feasible management options.
Practical output: Due diligence and evidence requests worksheet
Day 3 – Contract responsibilities and review routines
Apply contract responsibilities and review routines in a facilitated group exercise. Develop a draft working document and use peer review to test clarity, ownership and practicality.
Practical output: Contract responsibilities and review routines worksheet
Day 4 – Disruption coordination and improvement actions
Review disruption coordination and improvement actions. Define follow-up responsibilities, useful measures and escalation arrangements, and test how the recommendations would work during a service change.
Practical output: Disruption coordination and improvement actions worksheet
Day 5 – Supplier resilience review workshop
Complete the supplier resilience review workshop. Integrate the preceding exercises into a supplier security and continuity review framework, present the recommendations and agree a 30-60-90 day action plan.
Practical output: Supplier security and continuity review framework
