Auditing for Improved Supplier Performance
Learn how to effectively audit suppliers for maximum organizational benefit.
This course is designed for experienced quality professionals that are new or relatively new to supplier quality and supplier management.
Learn about the importance of auditing suppliers to ensure continuous improvement and shows you how to develop an effective supplier auditing system.
To ensure a robust, engaging learning experience, this course leverages case studies, individual and group activities, hands-on exercises, and knowledge checks to help you transform the conceptual into the practical.
This course is also available as part of a 5-day Supplier Quality Professional: An Introduction course (including Introduction to Supplier Management, Auditing for Improved Supplier Performance, and Quality/Engineering Tools for Supplier Management). Save when you register for all five days!
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Course Data
- CEU Hours: 0
- Length: 9 Hours
- ASQ RU: 0.8
- Audience: Academic, Executive, Practitioner, Professional
- Provider: ASQ
Learning Objectives:
- Describe supplier quality and why it is important to audit suppliers
- Explain the steps required to prepare for a supplier audit
- Describe how to perform a supplier audit
- Review supplier audit results and take action
Who Should Attend:
This course is an excellent tool for experienced quality professionals that are new or relatively new to supplier quality and supplier management.- Supplier Management and Auditing—An Overview
- Preparing to Audit a Supplier
- Performing a Supplier Audit
- Reviewing the Results of a Supplier Audit and Taking Action
Format
This is a face-to-face, 1-day course that is 9 hours long in total. The course starts at 8:00 am and finishes at 5:00 pm with one half-hour break for lunch and short breaks in morning and afternoon.- If you need to cancel, we will refund your paid registration fee as noted below.
- Requests for cancellations/transfers received at least 5 business days before the start of the course receive a full refund/transfer.
- Requests received within 5 business days of the course starting incur a $150 processing fee.
- After the course starts, there are no refunds or transfers.
- Registrants who fail to attend without advance notice are liable for the entire course fee.
- If you cannot find a substitute, we can transfer your course fees to another ASQ course of your choice.
- You must successfully complete the entire course or program before IACET CEUs and a Certificate of Completion can be awarded.
Enrollment Details

An instructor-led traditional classroom experience. Classroom-based instruction involves the highest level of instructor/student interaction. We offer classroom style training in two formats. See public and on-site.
November 09, 2022 - November 09, 2022 | Tucson ILT0987 | AZ | US | Allen Wong CMQ/OE, CQA, CQE, CQPA | English | Early Bird Ends October 02, 2022 List: $599.00 Member: $479.00 Regular List: $649 Member: $559 |

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