MSS405004 Develop business plans in an organisation implementing competitive systems and practices

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for MSS405004 ended on 14 December 2022 — 3 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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New enrolments are not permitted from 16 December 2023 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

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Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
MSS — Sustainability
Currency period ends
14 December 2022
Latest release
Release 1 · 22 June 2016
Supersedes
MSS405004A
Superseded by
MSS405017 not equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. MSS405004Superseded — not equivalentDevelop business plans in an organisation implementing competitive systems and practices
  2. not equivalent
  3. MSS405017CurrentDevelop business plans in an organisation implementing competitive systems and practices

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • MSS405004AMSS405004equivalent21 June 2016

    Supersedes and is equivalent to MSS405004A Develop business plans in an organisation implementing competitive systems and practices

  • MSS405004MSS405017not equivalent15 December 2022

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Is MSS405004 on your scope?

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Where MSS405004 is used

training.gov.au lists MSS405004 inside 10 training products, 2 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for MSS405004 in that product.

Current products 2 listed

CodeTraining productTypeMSS405004 is
DEF50120Diploma of Explosive Ordnance ManufactureQualificationelective
PPM50121Diploma of Pulp and Paper Operations ManagementQualificationelective

Products no longer current 8 listed

The register still records MSS405004 inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypeMSS405004 is
FWP50116Diploma of Forest and Forest ProductsQualificationelective
FWP50216Diploma of Timber Truss and Frame ManufactureQualificationelective
FWP50316Diploma of Timber Truss and Frame DesignQualificationelective
MSS40316Certificate IV in Competitive Systems and PracticesQualificationelective
MSS50116Diploma of Sustainable OperationsQualificationelective
MSS50118Diploma of Sustainable OperationsQualificationelective
MSS50316Diploma of Competitive Systems and PracticesQualificationelective
MSS60316Advanced Diploma of Competitive Systems and PracticesQualificationelective

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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