A private, fully customized specialist course in integrity & supply chain, delivered 1-on-1 around your schedule and built on your own operation. You finish able to put supplier approval & supply chain risk skills to work immediately.
The Certified Supplier Approval & Supply Chain Risk Specialist course builds deep, applied competence in supplier qualification, risk-based approval programs, supplier monitoring, audits, and supply chain risk management. It is delivered 1-on-1, in English, and customized to your operation.
Every trainee who completes the course is added to the TrustBite registry of certified professionals, a public directory employers, auditors, and project leads use to verify credentials and find qualified people. The certificate keeps working for you after the course ends.
Eight modules, taught live and 1-on-1 in the order below. Every module is worked through on your own site, products and markets, so the examples are yours from the first session.
Incidents caused by suppliers, and what each law and scheme expects your programme to do.
Scoring each material for microbiological, chemical, physical, allergen and fraud risk.
Certification, questionnaires, audits and testing, and matching the route to the risk of the material.
Planning, carrying out and reporting a second party audit at a supplier site.
Writing them, agreeing them with the supplier and checking incoming goods against them.
Brokers, agents, contract packers, laboratories, pest control and transport, and how to approve each.
Scorecards, complaints, nonconformance, review meetings and when to suspend a supplier.
Rating your own supplier list, building the files and writing the procedure.
We work from your own supplier list and your own raw materials. By the last session every supplier has a risk rating, an approval route and a file, and you hold a procedure your auditor can follow.
Combine this course with related specialist courses. You get more skills and one certificate-backed path for less than buying the courses separately.
Prefer a different mix? Pick any combination of courses and the price adjusts automatically. This course is included to start. Add at least one more to form a bundle.
Add courses and your savings grow automatically. Bundle two and you save on the second. Build a bigger set and the extra courses come at up to half price. More skills, one certificate-backed path, for a fraction of what the courses cost separately.
Two or more courses required. Pricing applies automatically at checkout.
The questions buyers and food safety professionals ask most about this course.
Yes. The Certified Supplier Approval & Supply Chain Risk Specialist course is delivered entirely 1-on-1 with a dedicated instructor, online and live, and scheduled around your working hours. Most providers deliver specialist topics as fixed-date group webinars. Confi Food builds the course around your own products, processes, and site from the first session.
The Certified Supplier Approval & Supply Chain Risk Specialist course is €349.99, delivered 1-on-1 and fully customized. It can also be taken in a bundle with related specialist courses at a lower combined price.
Yes. You can combine this course with any other Confi Food courses and the price adjusts automatically, with bigger savings the more you add. The extra courses come at up to half price, so you build a wider set of skills for a fraction of buying them separately.
On completion you receive a TrustBite-recognised Certified Supplier Approval & Supply Chain Risk Specialist certificate with a unique verification ID, and you are listed in the TrustBite registry of certified professionals. The registry is a public directory that employers, auditors, and project leads use to verify credentials and find qualified people, so the certificate keeps working for you after the course ends.
The certificate is valid for 3 years. After that it can be renewed by completing a short online refresher quiz for €50, and the updated certificate is issued automatically and your registry listing is kept current.
It suits food safety professionals who need applied depth in this specific area, whether to meet a regulatory requirement, close an audit finding, or take on the role. Because it is 1-on-1, the instructor sets the starting point to your level and your operation.
Enrol now and start with a session mapped to your operation, or book a free consultation first.
Pay in two instalments or lesson by lesson, buy as a company on invoice, or claim 30% off as a graduate.