This course covers Operations Dependency Tracking, which involves assessing operational dependencies, process interconnections, and support functions that influence the effective monitoring and management of credit exposures within Credit Monitoring & Portfolio Surveillance workflows. It focuses on identifying operational factors that may affect risk monitoring, control execution, data availability, escalation processes, and timely response to emerging portfolio concerns. The course examines how dependencies across credit, operations, technology, reporting, collections, and other support functions can create vulnerabilities, delays, or control gaps that impact portfolio oversight and risk management effectiveness. It evaluates key dimensions such as control lapses, early warning signal identification, risk trend analysis, and proactive portfolio risk management, with each requiring independent validation and documented rationale before any credit action is finalized. It is distinct from an early warning detection system, as it focuses on understanding and managing the operational dependencies that support exposure monitoring and breach response activities, rather than the broader identification and prediction of portfolio deterioration through risk indicators and surveillance mechanisms. Within Inter-Function Coordination & Escalation, the credit manager validates team-level analysis, approves case recommendations, and manages segment-level exposure within Credit Monitoring & Portfolio Surveillance, shaping escalation scope, coordination priorities, and governance actions arising from operational dependencies and associated risk concerns.