Anti-Counterfeit Supply Chain Control Course

Protect product authenticity through supplier controls, authentication, traceability, custody, channel monitoring, and incident response.
Anti-Counterfeit Supply Chain Control Course

At a glance

Duration
1 Week
Format
Classroom
Cities
Doha, Toronto, Muscat, Istanbul, Abu Dhabi, Manama and more
Next session
8 – 12 November 2026, Doha
Average fee
5,750 €

Overview

Anti-Counterfeit Supply Chain Control is a one-week advanced course for supply-chain, procurement, quality, brand-protection, compliance, logistics, warehouse, security, and product-integrity functions. Participants build an Anti-Counterfeit Supply Chain Control and Response Plan connecting counterfeit-threat analysis, supplier controls, authentication, serialization, traceability, custody, channel monitoring, incident evidence, withdrawal, recall, and improvement. Agile Leaders Training Center presents anti-counterfeit supply chain control as coordinated prevention, detection, and response.

Who Should Attend

  • Supply-chain and procurement functions responsible for supplier and channel integrity
  • Quality and product-integrity functions responsible for authenticity and release decisions
  • Brand-protection, compliance, legal, and security functions managing counterfeit incidents
  • Logistics and warehouse functions responsible for custody, receiving, storage, and dispatch controls
  • E-commerce, marketplace, distributor, and channel-management functions monitoring diversion and suspect listings

The course assumes participants manage products, suppliers, logistics, quality evidence, channels, or investigations and excludes legal advice, laboratory-specialist training, and sector-specific regulatory certification.

Departments and Industries

The course supports product-authenticity decisions across physical and digital supply channels.

  • Supply chain, procurement, supplier quality, logistics, and warehousing
  • Brand protection, product integrity, compliance, legal, security, and investigations
  • Pharmaceutical, medical-device, automotive, electronics, and industrial-parts supply chains
  • Consumer goods, cosmetics, apparel, food, and retail distribution
  • E-commerce platforms, marketplaces, distributors, freight operators, and third-party logistics providers

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Analyze counterfeit threats, vulnerable routes, products, suppliers, and channels.
  • Design supplier, contract, authentication, and product-identification controls.
  • Evaluate serialization, traceability, chain-of-custody, and data-integrity evidence.
  • Strengthen receiving, warehouse, e-commerce, marketplace, and diversion controls.
  • Direct counterfeit incident triage, evidence preservation, escalation, withdrawal, and recall.
  • Integrate partner collaboration, audit findings, metrics, and corrective actions.

Course Agenda

Day 1: Counterfeit Threat and Exposure Analysis

  • Counterfeit Threat Actor and Entry-Route Map
  • Product Attractiveness and Harm-Risk Matrix
  • Supplier, Geography, and Channel Vulnerability Profile
  • Authentic, Suspect, Counterfeit, and Diverted Product Decision Tree
  • Anti-Counterfeit Control Ownership and Escalation Register

Day 2: Supplier and Authentication Controls

  • Supplier Qualification and Beneficial-Ownership Review File
  • Contractual Authenticity, Audit, Notification, and Remedy Clause Set
  • ISO 22383 Authentication Solution Selection and Evaluation Grid
  • Overt, Covert, Forensic, and Digital Authentication Layer Model
  • Packaging, Label, Component, and Security-Feature Change Control

Day 3: Identification, Traceability, and Custody

  • ISO 22378 Object Identification and Participant Due-Diligence Map
  • Unique Identifier, Serialization, Aggregation, and Verification Flow
  • Chain-of-Custody Event and Authorized-Participant Record
  • Identifier Issuance, Access-Log, and Data-Integrity Control Checklist
  • Receiving Inspection, Quarantine, Release, and Warehouse Status Board

Day 4: Channel Monitoring and Incident Response

  • E-Commerce Listing, Marketplace Seller, and Small-Parcel Triage Grid
  • Diversion, Grey-Market, Return, and Reverse-Logistics Control Map
  • Suspect Product Intake and Incident-Severity Classification
  • Evidence Preservation, Case Handoff, and Information-Sharing Protocol
  • Withdrawal, Recall, Channel Notification, and Corrective-Action File

Day 5: Anti-Counterfeit Control Simulation

  • Exercise: Map a Counterfeit Entry Route and Product-Risk Profile
  • Exercise: Select Authentication Layers and Supplier Controls
  • Exercise: Validate Serialization, Custody, and Receiving Evidence
  • Exercise: Resolve a Marketplace Counterfeit Incident and Recall Decision
  • Capstone Exercise: Build the Anti-Counterfeit Supply Chain Control and Response Plan

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities to turn product, supplier, channel, custody, and incident evidence into controlled decisions.

  • Suggested activity: map counterfeit exposure for automotive parts and consumer cosmetics.
  • Suggested activity: compare authentication layers and test supplier-control coverage.
  • Suggested activity: trace identifiers, custody events, access logs, and receiving discrepancies.
  • Suggested activity: triage a suspect marketplace listing and coordinate evidence, withdrawal, and corrective action.

FAQs

Who suits anti-counterfeit supply chain training, and what does it assume?

Anti-counterfeit supply chain training suits professionals who manage products, suppliers, logistics, channels, quality evidence, security, or investigations and assumes working knowledge of organizational supply-chain responsibilities.

How does anti-counterfeit supply chain training differ from general traceability training?

Anti-counterfeit supply chain training connects traceability with threat analysis, authentication, supplier controls, channel monitoring, evidence handling, and incident response rather than treating product movement records as the sole objective.

How should supply chains select product-authentication controls?

Supply chains should select authentication controls after evaluating product risk, likely counterfeit methods, users, inspection conditions, identifier governance, evidence needs, system interoperability, control layering, and performance-testing criteria.

What evidence supports a counterfeit-product incident decision?

Counterfeit-product incident decisions draw on product identifiers, packaging and feature checks, custody events, supplier records, purchase and shipping data, images, samples, access logs, marketplace information, and authorized expert findings.

How do anti-counterfeit controls address e-commerce and diversion?

Anti-counterfeit controls address e-commerce and diversion through seller screening, listing monitoring, small-parcel triage, authorized-channel mapping, return controls, test purchases, data sharing, escalation routes, and documented action against suspect products.

Conclusion

Participants take back an Anti-Counterfeit Supply Chain Control and Response Plan. It aligns product and supplier risk, authentication, identifiers, custody, receiving, channel monitoring, incident evidence, withdrawal, recall, metrics, and improvement. The plan makes responsibilities, decision criteria, records, escalation, partner handoffs, and corrective action visible across physical and digital supply channels.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Image Location Dates Duration Mode Price Actions
Doha Doha Week 45, 2026
8 – 12 November 2026
1 Week Onsite €5,500
Toronto Toronto Week 46, 2026
15 – 19 November 2026
1 Week Onsite €12,000
Muscat Muscat Week 47, 2026
22 – 26 November 2026
1 Week Onsite €5,700
Istanbul Istanbul Week 48, 2026
23 – 27 November 2026
1 Week Onsite €4,500
Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi Week 49, 2026
30 November – 4 December 2026
1 Week Onsite €4,700
Manama Manama Week 49, 2026
6 – 10 December 2026
1 Week Onsite €4,700
London London Week 50, 2026
7 – 11 December 2026
1 Week Onsite €5,700
Tbilisi Tbilisi Week 51, 2026
14 – 18 December 2026
1 Week Onsite €5,000
Accra Accra Week 51, 2026
20 – 24 December 2026
1 Week Onsite €4,100
Dubai Dubai Week 52, 2026
21 – 25 December 2026
1 Week Onsite €4,500
Rome Rome Week 53, 2026
28 December 2026 – 1 January 2027
1 Week Onsite €5,700
Amsterdam Amsterdam Week 01, 2027
4 – 8 January 2027
1 Week Onsite €5,700
Munich Munich Week 01, 2027
4 – 8 January 2027
1 Week Onsite €5,700
London London Week 02, 2027
11 – 15 January 2027
1 Week Onsite €5,700
Lagos Lagos Week 02, 2027
17 – 21 January 2027
1 Week Onsite €4,100
Manama Manama Week 03, 2027
24 – 28 January 2027
1 Week Onsite €4,700
Tokyo Tokyo Week 05, 2027
1 – 5 February 2027
1 Week Onsite €10,000
Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi Week 05, 2027
1 – 5 February 2027
1 Week Onsite €4,700
Zanzibar Zanzibar Week 05, 2027
7 – 11 February 2027
1 Week Onsite €5,500
Geneva Geneva Week 06, 2027
14 – 18 February 2027
1 Week Onsite €6,200

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OverviewAnti-Counterfeit Supply Chain Control is a one-week advanced course for supply-chain, procurement, quality, brand-protection, compliance, logistics, warehouse, security, and product-integrity functions. Participants build an Anti-Counterfeit Supply Chain Control and Response Plan connecting counterfeit-threat analysis, supplier controls, authentic…

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