Supply Chain Security Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Supply Chain Security Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Supply Chain Security related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Supply Chain Security specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Supply Chain Security Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 992 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Supply Chain Security improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 992 standard requirements:


1. How does your organization independently address conflicts of interest identified during the reasonable investigation process and in third party due diligence reports?
   
   

2. What information does the board require about each of the enterprise risks facing your organization as well as the various categories of business management risks?
   
   

3. How will the diversity strategic plan tell the story of the process to ensure stakeholders can see the connections between the engagement and the final plan?
   
   

4. Have you confirmed with your systems administrator that ISO approved private information management software is installed and enabled on your machine?
   
   

5. Do you have significant vendor/supplier agreements that include cost plus or time based pricing, process improvement guarantees, or IP protection?
   
   

6. How do you gain visibility and prioritize which software and hardware to refresh or migrate based on lifecycle and impact to service delivery?
   
   

7. What action do you take during the pre contract phase to assess the labor rights risks of all your suppliers throughout the supply chains?
   
   

8. How does your software handle approval tracking and can it automate reminder notifications and create a sequential review process?
   
   

9. Is the problem specific to one platform or operating system, or is it common across multiple platforms or operating systems?
   
   

10. Have the needs of vulnerable and marginalised individuals been identified in stakeholder mapping and engagement planning?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Supply Chain Security book in PDF containing 992 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Supply Chain Security self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Supply Chain Security Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Supply Chain Security areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Supply Chain Security Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Supply Chain Security projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Supply Chain Security Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Supply Chain Security project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Procurement Audit: Does the strategy ensure that appropriate controls are in place to ensure propriety and regularity in delivery?
   
   

2. WBS Dictionary: Does the contractor use objective results, design reviews and tests to trace schedule performance?
   
   

3. Quality Management Plan: Are you meeting your customers expectations consistently?
   
   

4. Human Resource Management Plan: Are staff skills known and available for each task?
   
   

5. Executing Process Group: What is in place for ensuring adequate change control on Supply Chain Security projects that involve outside contracts?
   
   

6. Probability and Impact Assessment: Is it necessary to deeply assess all Supply Chain Security project risks?
   
   

7. Assumption and Constraint Log: Security analysis has access to information that is sanitized?
   
   

8. Project Performance Report: To what degree will the team adopt a concrete, clearly understood, and agreed-upon approach that will result in achievement of the teams goals?
   
   

9. Cost Management Plan: Vac -variance at completion, how much over/under budget do you expect to be?
   
   

10. Human Resource Management Plan: Is the Supply Chain Security project schedule available for all Supply Chain Security project team members to review?


 
Step-by-step and complete Supply Chain Security Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Supply Chain Security project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Supply Chain Security project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Supply Chain Security project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Supply Chain Security project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Supply Chain Security project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Supply Chain Security project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Supply Chain Security project with this in-depth Supply Chain Security Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Supply Chain Security projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Supply Chain Security and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Supply Chain Security investments work better.

This Supply Chain Security All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.