Lead facilitator
AIR APAC provides the lead facilitator, who is named in your course proposal. Later deliveries can also be led by your training provider's own facilitator.
Instructor-led workshop for organisations · Business functions
AI in Operations and Supply Chain Decisions: check the forecast and the plan before they reach customers
AI now forecasts demand, sets stock levels, plans routes and proposes responses to disruption. This programme teaches operations managers to check the assumption behind a forecast or a plan, and to decide which decisions AI may make on its own.
Who should attend
Operations, supply chain, logistics and planning managers in manufacturing, distribution, retail, healthcare and public services.
Length
One day or two days.
Delivery
In person, led by a facilitator. Participants practise workplace decisions on StepSim, the AIR APAC decision simulator built by Exeter Labs.
Participants receive
A Record of Completion for each participant who completes the programme. A separate, optional assessment can lead to certification under AIRS-J/1, the AIR APAC Standard for Judgment in AI-Enabled Work. The certification is valid for two years and verified free on a public register.
Run for your group, with case files written for your sector. Dates are agreed in the proposal.
Why this programme
The problem it solves
AI now forecasts demand, sets stock levels, plans routes and schedules, and proposes responses to disruption. The recommendations arrive quickly and look precise.
An operations decision made on a wrong assumption reaches customers, staff and suppliers within days, and an automatic decision can repeat the same mistake many times before anyone sees it.
Outcomes
By the end, participants can
- Find the assumption a demand forecast or a stock recommendation depends on, and check it.
- Test an AI plan for a disruption for what it cannot see: a supplier's real position, a local holiday, a contract term.
- Decide which operational decisions AI may make on its own, which need a person, and when to stop the automatic ones.
- Agree a change with sales, finance and suppliers before it reaches them.
- Commit to a plan with a named condition for review, and correct it quickly when that condition is met.
For the sponsor
What your organisation receives
- One day: each participant's written change to how they and their team check AI work, with an owner and a date.
- Two days: a follow-up workshop on using the method at work, a report for the sponsor, and a manager review within ten working days.
Agenda
How it runs
STEP (Structure, Test, Engage, Perform) is the method every AIR Academy programme teaches. It is four questions a manager asks before acting on an AI answer. The four questions come from AIRS-J/1, the AIR APAC Standard for Judgment in AI-Enabled Work.
One day or two days. The two-day edition adds a session on each participant's own operation. Work on real operations follows the privacy rules in the questions below.
Compare the half day, the one day, the two days and the certification edition on the programme formats page.
Cases
Composites written for the programme: a port delay and a shortage of a key part; a demand forecast from a planning tool ("StockPlanAI") that missed a festive season; a scheduling tool ("RosterAI") that cut overtime and raised error rates.
Built on
AIRS-J/1, the AIR APAC Standard for Judgment in AI-Enabled Work. The programme covers all four areas, applied to the operations cycle: Structure at the forecast, Test at the plan, Engage at the hand-off to sales, finance and suppliers, Perform at commitment and correction.
Instructors
Who leads your programme
Co-facilitator
Delivered with an operations or supply chain practitioner as co-facilitator. AIR APAC teaches judgment when AI is in the work; the operations expertise comes from that practitioner.
How facilitators are certified
AIR APAC certifies facilitators under section 20.6 of AIRS-J/1. Training providers can send their trainers to the facilitator programme. If your organisation has its own rules for who may train your staff, tell us in the enquiry.
Credentials
What participants receive
| What | What it is | In this programme |
|---|---|---|
| Record of Completion | A record, issued by AIR APAC, of what each person attended and practised. | Included for everyone who completes. |
| AIRS-J/1 certification, Professional track | AIR APAC’s own credential for judgment in AI-enabled work, assessed against a public standard with a published rubric. Anyone can verify it free by code on a public register. Valid for two years. | Optional. Choose the certification edition, and participants take a separate assessment within 30 days of the programme. The proposal sets out the arrangements. |
Questions from buyers
Before you request a proposal
Will our confidential information go into AI tools?
No. The exercises use fictional case files. Where participants work on their own tasks, they use only an AI tool their organisation permits for that information, remove identifying and confidential details first, or use a fictional version instead. Nothing they show in the session is kept or recorded, and it is never used for certification. Your organisation receives these conditions before the programme starts.
Can it be fitted to our sector, our rules and our language?
Cases are set in your sector and under your country’s rules. Tell us which in your request. With your organisation’s written consent, cases can also be based on your own organisation. Programmes run in English. If your group needs another language, name it in your request.
In person or online, and how many people?
The facilitated editions are led in person. Group size, and any live online option, are agreed in the proposal.
How is the price set, and how soon can it run?
Each group receives a quoted price in its proposal. The price depends on the edition, the number of participants, the location, and whether the certification edition is included. No group has completed this programme yet. Case files are written for your sector and your group, and the start date is agreed in the proposal.
How will we know it worked?
Each edition opens with a StepSim Practice mission played the usual way and closes with an unseen mission of the same kind. You see what changed in how your group checks AI work. The written outputs are listed under What your organisation receives. This shows change during the programme, not results at work.
Is AIRS-J/1 certification recognised by a regulator or professional body?
No regulator, university or professional body recognises this credential. ISO/IEC 17024 is a design reference only. AIRS-J/1 certification is issued by AIR APAC under a public standard. See the credentials table.
What is AIRS-J/1?
AIRS-J/1 is the AIR APAC Standard for Judgment in AI-Enabled Work. It is public, with a published rubric and scoring rules, and a named Review Board governs it. It defines the four areas the programme teaches.
For training providers
Bring this programme to your clients
You keep your client. Training providers own the client relationship and invoice the client directly. AIR APAC supplies the programme design, case files written for your client’s sector, StepSim Practice missions and, for your first delivery, the lead facilitator. You agree the fit to your client, the subject expert who co-facilitates, and the commercial terms directly with AIR APAC. Facilitators who want to run StepSim sessions in their own programmes can join the facilitator programme.