C4001 Supply Chain Continuity Management for Food and Chemical Companies

About the Course

This practical course helps food and chemical companies build Supply Chain Continuity Management inside their existing systems. Using clear, repeatable steps, your team will identify critical materials and partners, define continuity requirements, choose proportionate strategies, embed expectations into contracts, and set up simple metrics and reviews. The result is a structured approach to prevention, mitigation, and faster recovery when disruptions occur.

Delivery Format

• Private delivery, live online via Zoom or onsite
• Maximum 9 participants
• One 8-hour day, or two blocks of 4 hours
• Team-based exercises, checklists, and activities
• Certificate of completion issued by QFS Assurance

Who Should Attend

Procurement and supplier quality, food safety and quality, operations and plant leadership, planning and logistics, EHS and regulatory, business continuity owners, legal and contracts, and internal auditors who evaluate suppliers and continuity evidence in food or chemical supply chains.

Course Agenda

• Why continuity matters in food and chemicals, risk ownership, upstream and downstream visibility
• Critical items and partners, how to find single-points of failure in ingredients, packaging, solvents, intermediates, tollers, and logistics
• Continuity requirements, service levels, recovery time objectives, cold chain and HazMat considerations
• Strategy choices, reducing dependency, qualified alternates, inventory and capacity buffers, relying on your strategies or the supplier’s, and when to accept risk
• Contracts and supplier management, evidence you need, right to audit, SLAs, KPIs, and change control over the contract life
• Exercising the plan, joint tabletop drills with co-manufacturers or tollers, incident playbooks for recalls, contamination, vessel delays, and carrier outages
• Performance and improvement, dashboards, triggers and escalation, lessons learned that flow into procurement, supplier scorecards, and management review
• Build a continuity plan for a high-risk item, one food case and one chemical case

Learning Outcomes

After this course, participants will be able to

• Map their supply chain for priority items, including tier-2 exposure and logistics constraints
• Define continuity requirements that reflect food safety, EHS, and regulatory needs
• Select and justify strategies that balance cost, speed, quality, and risk
• Embed continuity clauses, evidence, and reviews into supplier contracts and scorecards
• Run joint exercises with suppliers and use KPIs to drive prevention, mitigation, and recovery
• Report a simple, clear continuity status to leadership

Why this course will positively impact your business

• Prevention with structure, early detection of single-source risks in ingredients, packaging, solvents, and intermediates
• Practical mitigation, side-by-side options to reduce dependency, secure alternates, or add capacity without creating waste
• Safer, faster recovery, food and chemical incident playbooks improve coordination during recalls, contaminations, carrier failures, and plant outages
• Contractual clarity, continuity expectations and audit rights become explicit
• One integrated method, aligns with your quality, food safety, EHS, and business continuity routines so teams use the same language and records across sites

Completion Requirements

Full attendance and participation in the exercises are required to receive a certificate of completion from QFS Assurance.