Supply Chain & Inventory Control
Plan and control stock rather than react to it: demand forecasting, reorder policy, supplier performance and cost of inventory.
- Award
- Advanced Certificate
- Level
- Level 4
- Duration
- 14 weeks · 260 hours
- Delivery
- 80% online · 20% in person
- Units
- 6 units
- Intake
- Phase 01 · Kampala
Overview
Holding stock is expensive and running out is worse. This programme covers the planning decisions that sit between those two failures, and the supplier management that makes them possible.
A proposed Level 4 award intended as the planning and supervisory destination for experienced stores and procurement staff.
What you study
6 units · 260 notional hours. Hours shown are the notional allocation used for planning and progression.
Flows, tiers, lead times, incoterms and where risk actually sits in a regional chain.
Historic data, seasonality, forecast error and planning around unreliable demand signals.
Safety stock, reorder points, order quantity, ABC analysis and slow-moving stock.
Sourcing, terms, supplier scorecards, escalation and managing single-source risk.
Carrying cost, obsolescence, stock turn, service level and reporting to management.
Inventory systems, data hygiene, audit trails and segregation of duties.
How you are assessed
Practical competence is assessed in person by a qualified assessor against written criteria. No practical competence is assessed online.
A real stock profile analysed with recommended policy changes
Scorecards and a supplier review conducted and recorded
A written report and recommendation presented to a real decision-maker
Recorded questioning on trade-offs and risk
Entry requirements
- 21 years or older at the start of the programme
- An ASIEA Level 3 certificate or equivalent stores/procurement experience
- Numeracy sufficient for forecasting and cost analysis
- Access to real inventory data for the portfolio
Certification
Learners receive the ASIEA award and the evidence behind it. External certification is being sought: the units, notional hours and assessment on this page are written so a certification body can map them to its own qualifications.
Where it leads
Roles shown are indicative of the sector this course is designed for, not guaranteed placements.
Next steps
Two minutes. No documents needed yet.
A guided call on fit, schedule and prior experience.
Entry evidence reviewed and a placement matched to you.
Enrolment, induction date and your learner record opened.
Phase 01 fees are published at admission. Payment plans and employer-sponsored places form part of the intended Phase 01 model.