What Is A Tier 2 Supplier?

What Is A Tier 2 Supplier
Tier 2 suppliers are your suppliers’ suppliers or companies that subcontract to your direct suppliers. Tier 3 suppliers are the suppliers or subcontractors of your tier 2 suppliers.

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Avetta x Sustain.Life Partnership This blog post has been adapted from Sustain.Life’s original, Within a supply chain, there are multiple tiers of suppliers, based on an organization’s closeness to the client organization or the final product. Having various tiers in a supply chain sounds complicated and can be, but it also enables companies to specialize in one area and contract out the rest.

Often, organizations focus on tier 1 suppliers but tend to overlook their tier 2 and 3 suppliers.
Although further removed from an organization, tier 2 and 3 suppliers are still connected to the client organization, meaning these suppliers can still bring with them risk and liability which can affect the hiring organization in a variety of ways, from reputation damage to costly litigation.

Although not all organizations create physical materials, we will illustrate the different tiers with a physical product example: Tier 3- raw material: cotton from a cotton plant farm (Tier 3 is not necessarily a raw material every time. We’re just pointing out that this example is a raw material.) Tier 2- cotton fabric mill (The cotton fabric is made from the cotton plants.) Tier 1- final product: a company that creates cotton t-shirts (The t-shirt is made from cotton fabric.) Tier 1 Suppliers: These are direct suppliers of the final product. Tier 2 suppliers: These are suppliers or subcontractors for your tier 1 suppliers.

Tier 3 suppliers: These are suppliers or subcontractors for your tier 2 suppliers.
These tiers can extend longer than three.
The tiers extend as much as needed for hiring companies, depending on how many levels of suppliers or subcontractors are needed in the supply chain to create the product or service.

Why should I know my suppliers? Knowing your suppliers can be useful for a variety of reasons:

Quality control — The further removed a supplier is from your organization, the harder it is to maintain quality if you don’t have the right controls in place. Ethics concerns — Do you know if your suppliers are involved with inhumane working conditions, human trafficking, or other unethical behaviors? Legal ramifications —Did you know you could be held liable for your contractors if they aren’t compliant with current labor laws? Social Responsibility — Are your suppliers sustainable, socially responsible, diverse, and inclusive? Do you know their ESG Index? How are your scope 3 emissions? Cybersecurity — Your company could have the strictest of digital security protocols, but if an insecure third party accesses your system, a breach is very possible.

At Avetta, we know how complicated it can be to manage a supply chain. With our supply chain management software, you can enjoy the peace of mind of greater compliance and decreased liability and risk. We can pinpoint ways to improve your suppliers’ compliance (or help you find better ones) through our prequalification process, training, audits, and real-time insights.

What does tier 2 include?

Tier 2 – Tier 2 provides selective supports for individuals or groups of students with some additional low-level learning, social-emotional and developmental needs. This tier adds a layer of support to a select group of students that will ultimately be impactful for all students. These supports are based on need and call for one or more of the following:

A change in environment A need for improved relationship or interaction (between staff and student or between students) The learning of a new skill Development of a mindset

Tier 2 supports can be provided in the following ways:

The student is referred to and discussed at a Tier 2 meeting The referring individual reaches out directly to another service provider or student support staff member in the building

Tier 2 team membership includes all teachers (including the referral teacher) on a given grade team, along with any specialist educators who work with that grade. Optional members include school leaders, to provide expertise and logistical support around decisions regarding student interventions, and intervention specialists or clinical support persons, to provide more support around mental health and other learning needs.

What is tier 2 also known as?

What is tier2 capital? Check Answer at BYJU’S Banks need required reserves, and one of the important components of these required reserves is tier 2 capital. Tier 2 capital is considered to be less secure than the Tier 1 capital. Tier 2 capital is also known as supplementary capital.

Which is higher Tier 2 or Tier 3?

Assessment Factors – Three primary assessment differences between Tier 2 and 3 are (1) the use of individual versus group diagnostic information, (2) the frequency of progress monitoring, and (3) the use of a comprehensive assessment framework at Tier 3.

Individual versus group diagnostic information.
Many of the same types of assessments are used across Tier 2 and Tier 3 (i.e., universal screening to inform initial tier assignment, progress monitoring and mastery assessments to inform student learning, summative assessments to inform intervention effectiveness, and fidelity measures to determine implementation; Hosp, 2008).

However, the level of analysis may differ, depending on the protocol adopted. A protocol guides schools’ thinking about who gets which level of support and when they are assigned and modified (Tilly, 2008). One protocol used by schools is the “combined protocol,” which specifies that standard interventions and group problem-solving are used at Tier 2, and individually designed interventions and individual problem solving are used at Tier 3 (Tilly, 2008).

With group problem-solving, the common instructional need is identified among students needing Tier 2 support using brief diagnostic assessments. For example, if oral reading fluency is used as a screening assessment, an assessor can determine a student’s rate (i.e., number of words read correctly in 1 minute) and accuracy (i.e., percentage of words read correctly) when reading connected text.

From there, educators can identify what skills within reading to focus on (e.g., inaccurate and slow readers are provided general reading instruction, whereas accurate and slow readers are provided fluency instruction). As another example, imagine a grade-level team that analyzed the results of a common assessment used in reading for their 2nd graders.

The results revealed that for students who received Tier 2, only 22% of them have mastered r -controlled vowels. Accordingly, a focus of decoding lessons in Tier 2 would include r -controlled vowels. This group level of problem analysis can help schools efficiently group larger numbers of students into appropriate levels of supports by pinpointing a common missing skill (or skills) to target during Tier 2.

As an analogy, imagine a health clinic that wants to identify the most frequent health concern expressed by its patients. Analyzing initial complaints from patients, the clinic discovers that a good portion of their patients frequently experience cold and flu symptoms.

Instead of meeting with each patient separately and developing an individualized plan, the clinic targets those patients’ needs all at once by providing a group-oriented intervention (a Tier 2 intervention).
The clinic decides to share brochures on how to prevent spreading germs (e.g., washing hands frequently, covering mouth when coughing), passes out free hand sanitizer to those patients and to community venues (e.g., local grocery stores, coffee shops), and provides an on-call nurse to field questions for those individuals who have cold symptoms.

In this scenario, the clinic analyzed common areas of need at the group level among its patients needing “Tier 2,” without investing resources in analyzing individual patients’ complaints. At Tier 3, the unit of analysis moves from the group to the individual student.

As opposed to group analysis, educators use individualized diagnostic assessments to evaluate the exact skills a student has and does not have rather than the skills a group of students have and do not have.
In an RTI process, diagnostic does not refer to diagnosing a disability; it refers to analyzing the instructional situation and student’s skills in order to plan for intervention.

Diagnostic assessments are those that assess discrete skills, such as identifying the specific letter patterns a student can and cannot read well or which multiplication tables a student has mastered (Hosp, 2008). Returning to the health clinic analogy, at Tier 3, the clinic would focus on one particular patient.

Imagine that one patient has a recurring cough and the typical “first line” of treatment (the Tier 2 example described above) did not work.
From there, the clinic may draw blood to pinpoint a more aggressive approach.
The clinic may also conduct an interview with the patient, asking questions about the patient’s day-to-day activities, and observe the patient taking deep breaths.

The results of such an evaluation would inform the doctors about the individualized course of action to take. In our case, the patient with a recurring cough had a bacterial infection. Low and behold, a round of intense antibiotics has gotten this patient back to full health.

With RTI, the goal is similar: to get students back to full educational health. Frequency of progress monitoring. Another assessment difference between Tier 2 and Tier 3 is the frequency with which students are progress monitored. Students receiving Tier 2 support are monitored once per month or twice per month, compared to weekly or twice a week at Tier 3 (Brown-Chidsey & Steege, 2010).

Usually, students at Tier 2 are monitored monthly, but some suggest monitoring every 2 weeks (Kaminski, Cumming, Powell-Smith, & Good, 2008) or weekly monitoring (Johnson, Mellard, Fuchs, & McKnight, 2006). Progress monitoring at Tier 3 is more frequent, but relative to the frequency of monitoring at Tier 2.

If monthly monitoring occurs at Tier 2, then biweekly or weekly monitoring occurs for students in Tier 3 (Harn et al., 2007; Vaughn et al., 2007). The guiding principle is that, as the need of the student increases, so does the attention and responsiveness of the staff. The increase in data collection at Tier 3 reflects the urgency of the student’s educational need and allows the staff to make decisions regarding instruction more frequently (e.g., every 2 months instead of once per quarter) In deciding upon the frequency of progress monitoring, schools have to consider the number of data points needed.

The validity of the slope (i.e., rate of improvement or rate of growth) depends on the number of data points that comprise it (Kennedy, 2005), and anywhere from 8 to 14 data points are needed to make a valid judgment of a student’s growth (Christ, Zopluoglu, Long, & Monaghen, 2012).

Consequently, schools may face a conundrum when the intervention has been implemented for a reasonable amount of time, yet the data is not sufficient to make a valid decision.
For example, an intervention may have been implemented for 20 weeks, but monthly monitoring has resulted in only five data points.

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In such a scenario, schools have three options:

School staff can obviously increase the amount of progress monitoring to ensure they have at least eight data points in order to make a decision (e.g., collect data at least three more times to obtain at least eight data points).
School staff may wish to administer more than one probe during progress-monitoring occasions. Instead of administering one oral reading fluency probe, for example, educators can administer three probes and record the mean or median. When less than weekly monitoring is used, multiple administrations of probes during a progress-monitoring occasion and using the median score provide for a more valid data point (Christ et al., 2012). This can decrease the rate of monitoring required to have sufficient data for accurate decisions from conducting weekly monitoring for several months to conducting weekly monitoring for 3–9 weeks (Christ et al., 2012).
School staff can consider the data itself. Guidelines for progress monitoring are not hard and fast rules, because the number of data points needed depends in part on the amount of variability within the data. Specifically, the more variability within the data, the greater the number of data points needed to get a valid picture of the student’s growth (Kennedy, 2005). Conversely, lower variability in the data indicates more precision in measurement and, thus, less need for more data points (although it’s usually difficult to argue for fewer data points). When evaluating a student’s growth rate, an educator should be able to look at the graph and judge, with reasonable confidence, where the next data point will land. If one cannot judge that, then more data are needed until the educator can judge where the next data point will fall with reasonable confidence. Schools could easily encounter situations in which fewer than eight data points provide a clear indication that the intervention is not sufficient for the student and, thus, more data are not needed to make a decision (see Figure 1). To summarize, schools will have to consider intervention time, progress-monitoring schedules, variability within the data, and certain decision deadlines (e.g., end of term or school year) to ensure they have sufficient data to make accurate decisions about student progress.

Figure 1. Illustration of variability within data. Note : For Student 1, the data indicate that the student’s next data point can be predicted with reasonable confidence, whereas for Student 2, more data is needed. Both examples have fewer than eight data points.

Assessment framework. A final difference with assessment between Tier 2 and Tier 3 is the use of a framework to structure the intensity and explicitness of decision making that corresponds with Tier 3 (Christ, 2008; Howell & Nolet, 2000). Whereas Tier 2 assessment is largely at the group-level, Tier 3 assessment is at the individual level.

Thus, assessment at Tier 3 requires a much more comprehensive, thorough, and intensive approach. To accomplish this, assessment at Tier 3 is organized within the RIOT/ICEL framework. RIOT and ICEL are acronyms for the type of assessments and instructional domains to analyze, respectively, when making decisions about individual students’ achievement.

ICEL includes instruction (how new skills are taught and reinforced), curriculum (what is being taught), environment (where the instruction takes place), and learner (the recipient of the skills being taught). RIOT includes review (reviewing existing data, permanent products, attendance records, lessons plans, etc.) that inform the evaluator about the state of affairs, interviews (structured, semi-structured, and unstructured methods of assessment that involve question–answer formats) observations (directly observing the instructional settings and the student’s engagement during learning tasks to examine when and where the problem is most and least likely to occur), and test (the administration of formal and informal tests).

The RIOT methods are used to obtain information about ICEL (Christ, 2008; Howell & Nolet, 2000). RIOT and ICEL are best viewed as an organizing rubric that can guide the specifics of problem analysis (see Table 2). Table 2: Examples of Sources of Information and Assessment Methods Within the RIOT and ICEL Framework to Support Achievement in Tier 3

	Review	Interview	Observe	Test
Instruction	Examine permanent product, lesson plans to assess prior strategies and instructional demands	Interview educator(s) for philosophy and perception of student issues	Conduct direct observations to document critical elements of practices Identify antecedents and consequences of behavior	Use checklists, scales, etc. to measure effective practices
Curriculum	Review lesson plans and learning objectives to determine match with student’s skills Analyze curriculum materials to understand scope and sequence, amount of review, etc.	Interview educator(s) for understanding of curriculum, training received, expectations about pacing, etc.	Examine permanent products to determine alignment with objectives Observe clarity of objectives and student’s completion of them	Assess difficulty of materials compared to student’s instructional level
Environment	Review lesson plans on behavioral expectations; school rules and policies to understand climate; and seating charts to determine distractions	Interview educator(s) to assess rules and routines Talk with students to describe climate, rules, etc.	Observe school and classroom climate and interactions among staff and students	Compare student’s performance between different settings to assess impact of environment
Learner	Review records to assess previous history and learning, attendance Examine permanent products to assess response to previous instruction	Interview student to describe perception of problem, coping methods, etc.	Observe target skills and behavior	Use a variety of tests to assess student’s skill level and behavior

Note: The term educator is used to refer to all relevant personnel who work with the student. Adapted from Christ, 2008 and Howell & Nolet, 2000 to depict Tier 3 implementation of RIOT/ICEL. Depending on the hypothesis to test and the intensity of student need, an evaluation may only involve a few “cells” or several of the cells; the more severe the problem, the more areas to be assessed using the framework.

The purpose of ICEL is to collect information that has high instructional relevance and pertains to controllable factors (Christ, 2008; Howell & Nolet, 2000). Because the student receiving instruction has not benefited from Tier 1 or Tier 2, much more time is spent analyzing the instructional environment to identify ways to correct the problem compared to students receiving Tier 2.

This is not to say that certain instructional domains or cells in the RIOT/ICEL rubric are ignored at Tier 2, but the comprehensive and individualized assessment within RIOT/ICEL at Tier 3 reflects the increase in need and resources from Tier 2 to Tier 3.

What will Tier 3 mean?

What are the rules for Tier 3? – Image source, Getty Images Tier 3 is the highest category in the government’s new tier system, and has the strictest rules. The very high alert level is caused when there has been a significant rise in cases, so additional and stricter rules apply.

Places like pubs which don’t serve food and leisure centres will have to close and people won’t be allowed to travel between areas.
People will not be allowed to meet socially with others from different households indoors, or in some outdoor locations, apart from with those in their support bubble.
You cannot meet in private gardens or pub gardens, but can meet in parks, beaches, countryside or forests, as long as you are not in a group of more than six.

Shops, schools and universities can stay open and people can still go to work if they can’t work from home. So far only Liverpool is in this tier, but Greater Manchester may join them.

What is a Tier N supplier?

What are n-tier suppliers? – N-tier suppliers are suppliers that exist beyond your tier 1 (contracted) suppliers and form the network of companies that provide your tier 1 supplier with the goods or services they need to deliver their own goods or service to you, the ultimate buyer.

Because sub-tier organizations can be represented across many levels and oftentimes very little is known about them, risk exposure can be incredibly high. In the same way that the ultimate buyer often has little visibility into their sub-tiers, your Tier 1 suppliers may also often have little or no robust visibility.

This demonstrates the interconnectedness of the supply chain and how vulnerable it can be.

What is tier 2 network example?

Try Our Voice Termination For FREE! – Give voice termination a try at $0 cost to you. Cancel anytime. Tier 1 Carriers Tier 1 Carriers are the largest organisations, typically those who own, operate, and control substantial infrastructure and large, robust networks.

Tier 1 carriers are typically defined as carriers who can provide routing to any network on the internet without additional charge.
They maintain reciprocal tariff-free agreements with all other Tier 1 carriers globally.
Tier 1 carriers include large companies such as Liberty Global in the UK, Tata Communications in India, and Germany’s Deutsche Telekom AG.

In many cases, Tier 1 carriers do not provide carriage directly, instead focusing on maintaining their infrastructure for use by Tier 2 and 3 carriers. Tier 2 Carriers Tier 2 Carriers include most larger ISP and Telecom providers, including Vodafone, Virgin Media, and Sprint Communications.

Tier 2 carriers maintain their own networks on a far smaller scale than Tier 1 Carriers.
They will have reciprocal peering agreements with some carriers, but will need to purchase transit through a Tier 1 carrier for some or most of their traffic.
Tier 3 Carriers The smallest and usually most specialized carriers are Tier 3 carriers.

They do not tend to be large scale ISPs, instead providing specialist connectivity – usually enterprise data connectivity and data centers. Tier 3 Carriers purchase IP transit to the internet from other providers, only maintaining the specialist networks they provide for themselves.

Which tier of carrier you select will almost certainly be a result of the type of service you need: those looking for enterprise data connections will usually end up with a Tier 3 provider, and you certainly won’t find a Tier 1 home broadband provider. The tiers are not a ‘ranking,’ more a classification of the services they provide.

For VoIP, for example, a wholesaler may provide better VoIP service, but will not provide internet connectivity.

What is an example of tier 2 support?

Increased Opportunity for Positive Reinforcement – Tier 2 supports target expected behavior by providing positive reinforcement for often. For example, students who participate in a Tier 2 Check-in Check-out intervention engage in feedback sessions with their classroom teacher and other adults in the school as many as 5-7 times per day.