🚀 Expediting Strategies Workshop: Ensuring On-Time Delivery in Projects
🔎 Course Description In today’s competitive projects and supply chain environments, timely delivery of equipment and materials is critical to cost, schedule, and quality. This hands-on workshop equips professionals with practical expediting techniques to monitor, accelerate, and control supplier performance …
Overview
🔎 Course Description
In today’s competitive projects and supply chain environments, timely delivery of equipment and materials is critical to cost, schedule, and quality. This hands-on workshop equips professionals with practical expediting techniques to monitor, accelerate, and control supplier performance effectively. It covers planning, execution, documentation, field visits, and communication strategies to minimize delays and ensure successful project delivery.
🎯 Learning Objectives
✅ Understand the expediting process in procurement and supply chain
✅ Develop effective expediting plans and checklists
✅ Conduct shop and field expediting activities confidently
✅ Manage supplier relationships and enforce contract requirements
✅ Identify early warning signs of potential delays
✅ Implement recovery plans and escalation procedures
👥 Who Should Attend
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Procurement and supply chain professionals
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Project managers and engineers
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Expeditors and logistics coordinators
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Quality control/assurance specialists
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Anyone responsible for timely project delivery
🗂️ Training Format
✅ Instructor-led interactive lectures
✅ Real-life project case studies
✅ Group exercises simulating supplier interactions
✅ Practical role-playing of expediting scenarios
✅ Tools, templates, and checklists for immediate use
📅 Detailed Daily Agenda with Time Breaks
📅 Day 1: The Expediting Process and Fundamentals
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Registration, Welcome, and Course Overview |
| 09:00 – 10:30 | Introduction to Expediting in Projects and Supply Chains |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:45 – 12:15 | Roles and Responsibilities of Expeditors |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Understanding Contractual Terms Related to Expediting |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Exercise: Mapping Expediting Workflows |
📅 Day 2: Planning Effective Expediting Activities
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Developing Expediting Plans and Schedules |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Preparing Expediting Documentation & Reports |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Expediting Checklists: Essential Elements |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Exercise: Create an Expediting Plan for a Case Project |
📅 Day 3: Shop & Field Expediting Techniques
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Performing Shop Expediting at Vendor Facilities |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Field Expediting and Monitoring Critical Deliveries |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Progress Measurement Methods & Verification |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Role-Play: Supplier Meeting Simulation |
📅 Day 4: Communication, Negotiation & Recovery Plans
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Effective Communication Techniques with Suppliers |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Negotiating Delivery Commitments & Schedules |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Identifying Early Warning Signs of Delay |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Developing and Implementing Recovery Plans |
📅 Day 5: Monitoring, Reporting, and Wrap-Up
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:30 – 10:00 | Tracking Progress & Updating Expediting Reports |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 10:15 – 12:15 | Case Studies: Successful & Failed Expediting Examples |
| 12:15 – 13:15 | 🍽 Lunch |
| 13:15 – 14:45 | Exercise: End-to-End Expediting Simulation |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | ☕ Coffee Break |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Course Review, Final Q&A, and Certification Ceremony |
📦 Materials Provided
✅ Expediting plan templates and checklists
✅ Practical tools for progress tracking
✅ Real-life case studies for practice
✅ Certificate of Completion
Target audiences
- Reservoir Engineers, Geologists
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