Procurement, Logistics & Inventory Management Training Courses

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Training Course in Inventory Management - (PR 1095)

Introduction</h2>
Knowledge of inventory management is critical for effectively managing procurement and the supply chain; however, inventory is commonly not understood. Therefore, inventory levels that are too high are held with attendant cost increases and product obsolescence.
Under this training course in inventory management, participants will also engage in specialized training and may earn certifications integral to inventory and warehouse management success. Among these critical training areas are:
<h3>Warehouse Management System Training</h3>
Participants in the inventory management course will explore the sophistication of warehouse management systems, gaining insights into how technology can optimize inventory control and warehouse operations.
<h3>Certificate Inventory and Management</h3>
This inventory management course offers an avenue towards earning a certificate in inventory management, providing professional recognition for competencies developed during the training.
<h3>Foundations of Inventory Management</h3>
Here, the building blocks of effective inventory management are elaborated, laying out the fundamental processes crucial for maintaining optimal stock levels without unnecessary expenditures.
<h2>Targeted Groups</h2>
<ul>
<li>Inventory Managers</li>
<li>Non-inventory people who need to gain an awareness of the issues and key drivers of stock control operations</li>
<li>Inventory, Stock, Supply Chain, Logistics, Warehouse, and Distribution Professionals</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives</h2>
At the end of this inventory management course, participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Appreciate that time is cash.</li>
<li>See that movement to the customer is all that adds value.</li>
<li>Work with all of the supply chain players' pay.</li>
<li>Look "outside of the box".</li>
<li>Use the appropriate methods.</li>
<li>Apply the 8 Rules for Effective Supply Chain Management.</li>
<li>Evaluate current procedures.</li>
<li>Examine how lead time builds up.</li>
<li>Change methods of managing inventory.</li>
<li>Provide practical skills to eliminate wasteful costs.</li>
<li>Avoid those internal problems that limit performance.</li>
<li>Understand and implement world-class tools for managing inventory in the supply chain.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies</h2>
<ul>
<li>Stock and inventory analyzing.</li>
<li>Productivity improvements.</li>
<li>The role of inventory in the supply chain.</li>
<li>Balancing cost and service requirements.</li>
<li>Continual improvement.</li>
<li>Best-in-class practices.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Inventory Management and The Supply Chain</h3>
<ul>
<li>Inventory management definition.</li>
<li>Types of stock.</li>
<li>Demand amplifications.</li>
<li>Demand replenishment in networks.</li>
<li>Managing the flows.</li>
<li>Type I and II supply chains in inventory management.</li>
<li>The supply chain rules in inventory management.</li>
<li>Inventory management and statistics.</li>
<li>Concept of service level.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Inventory Management Key Concepts</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fundamental component: demand analysis.</li>
<li>Fundamental component: demand forecasting.</li>
<li>Inventory fundamental component: supply lead time.</li>
<li>Fundamental component: cost and benefits.</li>
<li>Inventory management benefits.</li>
<li>Inventory management policies.</li>
<li>Managing inventory in organizations.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Inventory Management Replenishment Methods and Systems</h3>
<ul>
<li>Basic mechanics of inventory management systems.</li>
<li>The stock time curve.</li>
<li>Stock components.</li>
<li>Stock investment.</li>
<li>Free stock calculation.</li>
<li>Simple replenishment methods, for example, Min/Max.</li>
<li>Accurate replenishment methods include Reorder Point and Reorder Level (ROP/ROL).</li>
<li>Requirements planning systems include Materials/Manufacturing Resource/Requirements Planning (MRP / MRPII).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Stock Control-Coding</h3>
<ul>
<li>Different coding methods.</li>
<li>Importance of inventory receipts.</li>
<li>Identifying surplus and obsolescent stock.</li>
<li>Checklists to help in deciding the best option.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Stock Control-Recording</h3>
<ul>
<li>Separation of powers.</li>
<li>Legal issues.</li>
<li>How do we get inaccuracies?</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 6: Stock Control-Checking</h3>
<ul>
<li>Roles and responsibility.</li>
<li>Requirements.</li>
<li>Job Descriptions.</li>
<li>Authority levels.</li>
<li>Tolerances and approvals.</li>
<li>The stock check program.</li>
<li>Options for stock-checking methods.</li>
<li>Reconciliations/discrepancies.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 7: Inventory Management Performance</h3>
<ul>
<li>Inventory performance.</li>
<li>Assessing the stock level.</li>
<li>Models for implementing inventory control.</li>
<li>Determining stock targets.</li>
<li>Inventory management questions.</li>
<li>Inventory KPIs in warehouses/stores.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 8: Inventory Management Strategies</h3>
<ul>
<li>Push/Pull.</li>
<li>Quick response (QR).</li>
<li>Efficient consumer response (ECR).</li>
<li>Collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment (CPFR).</li>
<li>Lean and agile approaches.</li>
<li>Quality management.</li>
<li>Postponement.</li>
<li>Cross docking.</li>
<li>Consolidation.</li>
<li>Vendor-managed inventory (VMI).</li>
<li>Consignment stocking.</li>
<li>Co-managed inventory (CMI).</li>
<li>Direct product profitability (DPP).</li>
<li>Economic value added (EVA).</li>
<li>Collaborative supply chains.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 9: Inventory Management Improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li>Using the supply chain.</li>
<li>Using the theory of constraints.</li>
<li>Practical inventory improvements.</li>
<li>Call-offs and telemetry.</li>
<li>EDI and ICT.</li>
<li>Keys to reducing stock levels.</li>
<li>The 7 Rules for planning inventory.</li>
<li>Model for planning inventory.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Professional Development and Career Advancement</h2>
This inventory management course supports professional growth by incorporating a comprehensive inventory training approach, including theory and practical applications. It opens doors for career advancement in areas such as:
<ul>
<li>Warehouse Management Certification</li>
<li>Inventory Analyst Training</li>
<li>Inventory Management Training</li>
</ul>
Through this inventory management course, professionals will learn warehouse and inventory management systems in depth, preparing them to manage and optimize inventory control in various business settings successfully.">

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Distribution & Retail Management Training Course - (PR 2062)

Introduction</h2>
Distribution and retail management business have long been a central element of efficient operation within industrial and economic systems. Yet, its recognition as an independent, pivotal business function is relatively recent.
The discipline of retail management encompasses a comprehensive range of activities and responsibilities engineered to attract customers to brick-and-mortar stores or digital shopping platforms to satisfy their purchasing requirements.
An immense diversity of retail outlets exists today, each vying for customer attention and requiring increasingly sophisticated management expertise. The implementation of sound warehousing and distribution management is paramount to ensure the availability of the appropriate merchandise at the correct price, location, and time for consumers.
By exploring advanced concepts and practices, participants in the retail management course will be equipped with the skills necessary to navigate and succeed in the evolving landscape of retail and sales management.
<h2>Targeted Groups</h2>
<ul>
<li>Warehousing professionals.</li>
<li>Logistics and transportation professionals.</li>
<li>Sourcing, procurement, and supplier management professionals.</li>
<li>Retail professionals.</li>
<li>This retail management business course is for individuals seeking a deeper understanding of warehousing, distribution, and retail management to create substantial value for their businesses.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives</h2>
By the conclusion of this distribution and retail management training course, participants will be proficient in:
<ul>
<li>Critically evaluating procedures to innovate and optimize methods.</li>
<li>Discarding activities that contribute to wasteful costs.</li>
<li>Executing effective picking strategies for e-procurement scenarios.</li>
<li>Grasping the nuances of various distribution methods.</li>
<li>Enhancing customer service quality.</li>
<li>Comprehending the essential elements that comprise a retail strategy.</li>
<li>Developing and maintaining a competitive edge within the retail marketplace.</li>
<li>Applying practical tools and techniques to craft an effective retail strategy.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies</h2>
At the end of this retail management business course, the target competencies will be able to:
<ul>
<li>In-depth understanding of the retail landscape and its dynamics.</li>
<li>Techniques for augmenting customer satisfaction through adept distribution management.</li>
<li>Comprehension of the integral role of supply chains in retail operations.</li>
<li>Acumen in managing retail warehouse operations.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Foundations of Retail Management</h3>
<ul>
<li>Grasping the essence of retail business and management.</li>
<li>Recognizing and fulfilling customer needs and aspirations.</li>
<li>Meeting those needs and expectations.</li>
<li>Exploring the variety and spectrum of retail formats.</li>
<li>Insight into the operational aspects of retail outlets.</li>
<li>Managing personnel within a retail context.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Distribution and Inventory Management in Retail</h3>
<ul>
<li>Analyzing channels of distribution specific to retail business management.</li>
<li>Assessing the efficacy of third-party logistics versus in-house distribution.</li>
<li>Enhancing the distribution of online retail platforms.</li>
<li>Principles and techniques of inventory management.</li>
<li>Utilizing information systems for strategic planning and control.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: The Strategic Role of the Warehouse</h3>
<ul>
<li>Identifying the necessity of warehouses within the retail chain.</li>
<li>Investigating warehouse functions and their impact on retail business management.</li>
<li>Fitting warehouses within the more prominent retail supply chain.</li>
<li>Balancing the aspects of sorting and storage in warehouse management.</li>
<li>Supply and demand variables of warehouses in retail management.</li>
<li>Applying ABC Analysis or the 80/20 rule to warehouse operations.</li>
<li>Understanding throughput capacities and product formatting.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Modern Layout Options, Methods, and Equipment</h3>
<ul>
<li>Options for receiving procedures in retail management.</li>
<li>Various storage in retail management.</li>
<li>Picking/assembly alternatives options.</li>
<li>Dispatching methodologies within the retail environment.</li>
<li>Streamlining flow organization within warehouse settings.</li>
<li>Loading bays.</li>
<li>Selection of suitable equipment and racking systems.</li>
<li>Design implications for warehouse layouts.</li>
<li>Timing and strategic operational planning.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Evaluating Productivity and Service Levels</h3>
<ul>
<li>Examination of fixed versus variable costs in retail operations.</li>
<li>Overview of typical cost factors in retail management.</li>
<li>Model for recognizing the interplay between productivity, utilization, and performance.</li>
<li>Goal-setting for productivity and cost efficiency.</li>
<li>Importance of performance metrics and indicators.</li>
<li>Catering to the needs of internal and external customers.</li>
<li>Strategies for boosting outgoing service levels.</li>
<li>The repercussions of subpar service to mastering retail management.</li>
</ul>
As part of this retail management training course, participants will delve into the complexities of merging traditional and digital sales channels to deliver a cohesive omnichannel customer experience. This section is specifically designed for those aiming for a masters in retail management or seeking comprehensive retail manager training.">

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Strategic Purchasing & Supply Management Course - (PR 4002)

Introduction</h2>
Developing and implementing carefully crafted strategies for acquiring all goods, parts, equipment, and services have become critical in all organizations wishing to reduce operating costs while improving quality and productivity.
This strategic purchasing and supply chain management program explores key concepts of strategic cost/price analysis, value analysis, and total cost of ownership. It will move today's supply management organization from its typical tactical focus to the strategic focus needed to embrace the strategic role of purchasing in supply chain management and achieve world-class performance.
In today's competitive landscape, recognizing the strategic role of purchasing in supply chain management is pivotal. Purchasing decisions and processes are central to a company's overall strategy.
This strategic purchasing and supply chain management course delves into the intricate nature of purchasing and how it contributes to a sustainable and efficient supply chain model. Discussion on advanced supply chain management techniques will provide students with insights into modern procurement practices.
Upon completing this strategic purchasing and supply chain management course, participants will be awarded a purchasing and supply chain management certificate, which echoes their expertise in the field and prepares them for advanced roles within their organizations. This certificate validates acquiring skills necessary to handle strategic purchasing and supply chain management effectively.
<h2>Targeted Groups</h2>
<ul>
<li>Senior procurement managers.</li>
<li>Supply chain directors.</li>
<li>Operations managers.</li>
<li>Strategic planning executives.</li>
<li>Logistics managers.</li>
<li>Sourcing professionals.</li>
<li>This strategic purchasing and supply chain management course is for individuals interested in pursuing purchasing and supply management careers.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives</h2>
At the end of this strategic purchasing and supply chain management course, participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Explore the elements of cost in the supplier's price.</li>
<li>Understand the differences in international labor rates.</li>
<li>Develop a purchasing coding system.</li>
<li>Learn how volumes should impact price.</li>
<li>Discover supplier's different pricing models.</li>
<li>Explore issues of supplier/contractor overhead expenses.</li>
<li>Experience the development of a purchase price index.</li>
<li>Obtain supplier's price breakdowns.</li>
<li>Learn how to get more time to work on strategic issues.</li>
<li>Develop skills in negotiation planning and strategies.</li>
<li>Understand methods of price and cost analysis.</li>
<li>Apply concepts of value analysis.</li>
<li>Understand the development of should cost.</li>
<li>Learn the types of TCO systems.</li>
<li>Learn about implementing TCO analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies</h2>
<ul>
<li>Supplier pricing models.</li>
<li>Supply management mission and vision.</li>
<li>Cost analysis.</li>
<li>Use of price indexes.</li>
<li>Price analysis.</li>
<li>Preparation for negotiation.</li>
<li>Strategic approaches in supply management.</li>
<li>Developing what the price should be.</li>
<li>Spend analysis.</li>
<li>Price/volume analysis.</li>
<li>Value analysis.</li>
<li>Total cost of ownership.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Setting the Strategic Direction</h3>
<ul>
<li>Defining the supply management mission and vision.</li>
<li>Stages to world-class supply management.</li>
<li>Change and become more strategic.</li>
<li>Supply management skill sets.</li>
<li>Developing the spend analysis.</li>
<li>Creating time to be strategic.</li>
<li>The ABC (Pareto) analysis.</li>
<li>Material/services purchasing code development.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: How Do You Know That You Obtained a Good Price</h3>
<ul>
<li>Supplier pricing models.</li>
<li>Defining cost and price analysis.</li>
<li>Difference between cost and price analysis.</li>
<li>Selection tool.</li>
<li>Methods of price analysis.</li>
<li>Historical analysis.</li>
<li>Working with producer price indexes.</li>
<li>Developing the organization's purchase price index.</li>
<li>Estimating cost relationships.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Getting a Better Price by Analyzing Cost</h3>
<ul>
<li>Methods of cost analysis.</li>
<li>Major elements of cost.</li>
<li>What and how important are supplier overheads?</li>
<li>Sources of cost information.</li>
<li>Developing "should cost."</li>
<li>Requesting supplier cost info.</li>
<li>Issues in analyzing supplier cost breakdown.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Using Price Volume, International Labor, and Value Analysis</h3>
<ul>
<li>Global industrial labor rates.</li>
<li>Working with currency exchange rates.</li>
<li>Cost volume profit analysis.</li>
<li>Fixed and variable costs are defined.</li>
<li>Use of cost volume relationships.</li>
<li>Calculating fixed and variable costs algebraically.</li>
<li>Defining value analysis?</li>
<li>The test for a value list.</li>
<li>The supplier value checklist.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Concepts</h3>
<ul>
<li>Change in supply management.</li>
<li>Definitions of TCO.</li>
<li>Objectives of TCO.</li>
<li>Barriers to TCO.</li>
<li>Process flow diagrams.</li>
<li>Approaches to TCO.</li>
<li>Dollar model.</li>
<li>Value model.</li>
<li>Total cost modeling of the supply chain.</li>
<li>Implementing TCO.</li>
</ul>">

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Supply Chain Risk Management Training Course - (PR 4003)

Introduction</h2>
Effective supply chain professionals must ensure their organizations become industry pacesetters by better managing their supply chains to achieve reduced costs while improving service levels.
However, global trade has brought about proportionally high levels of risk and uncertainty. This uncertainty creates a risk spiral accompanied by increased costs and reduced service levels. Risk is found in all supply chains, but these risks can be avoided, managed, or deflected with analysis, preparation, and action.
Smart organizations must, therefore, find ways to manage risk, uncertainty, and variability while looking to reduce cost and improve service.
<h3>The Importance of Supply Chain Risk Management</h3>
Managing the risks associated with the supply chain is critical for the stability and success of any organization. This supply chain risk management course encapsulates the importance of understanding the risk management process in the supply chain. It integrates the practical approaches toward achieving supply chain risk management certification.
In conclusion, the supply chain risk management course provides comprehensive insights into the importance of risk management in supply chain management. Participants will complete the course with the tools, techniques, and strategic mindset required to manage risks within the supply chain effectively and add value to their organizations.
The supply chain risk management course paves the way for professionals aiming to become skilled supply chain risk managers, fully equipped with the expertise to navigate the complexities of modern supply chains with confidence.
<h2>Targeted Groups</h2>
<ul>
<li>Head of procurement.</li>
<li>Procurement professionals</li>
<li>Supply chain professionals.</li>
<li>Risk management professionals.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives</h2>
At the end of this supply chain risk management course, the participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Apply a thorough understanding of supply chain activities.</li>
<li>Identify, analyze, and evaluate supply chain risk.</li>
<li>Understand the key aspects of reducing risk.</li>
<li>Use risk management tools and techniques.</li>
<li>Make supply chain organizational improvements.</li>
<li>Understand the current supply chains.</li>
<li>Access them for risk and vulnerability.</li>
<li>Examine how to mitigate risks.</li>
<li>Apply appropriate tools.</li>
<li>Make continual improvements.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies</h2>
<ul>
<li>Analysis.</li>
<li>Evaluation.</li>
<li>Improving.</li>
<li>Change management.</li>
<li>Risk management.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Understanding The Supply Chain</h3>
<ul>
<li>Supply chain definitions.</li>
<li>The 8 supply chain rules.</li>
<li>Customers, competitive advantage, and demand.</li>
<li>Supply chain models and types.</li>
<li>The global supply chain.</li>
<li>Incoterms 3000 and reducing risk.</li>
<li>Recognizing risks in the supply chain.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Identifying Supply Chain Instabilities and Risks</h3>
<ul>
<li>Internal supply chain risks.</li>
<li>PESTLE risks.</li>
<li>Inventory risks.</li>
<li>Financial risks.</li>
<li>Disruption risks.</li>
<li>Security risks.</li>
<li>Mismanaged relationship risks.</li>
<li>Procurement risks.</li>
<li>Logistics risks.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Understanding the Risk Spiral</h3>
<ul>
<li>Consequences.</li>
<li>Outcomes.</li>
<li>Analyzing the key drivers of risk.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Reducing Supply Chain Risk</h3>
<ul>
<li>Improving visibility.</li>
<li>Reducing variability.</li>
<li>Maintaining velocity.</li>
<li>Restoring confidence.</li>
<li>Enabling agility and synchronicity in the supply chain.</li>
<li>Applying supplier relationship management.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Using Risk Management Tools and Techniques</h3>
<ul>
<li>Risk mitigation options.</li>
<li>Risk mitigation matrix.</li>
<li>Risk management principles.</li>
<li>RAG assessment.</li>
<li>The role of procurement and supply chain strategy.</li>
<li>Evaluation and prioritization of risks.</li>
<li>The risk management matrix.</li>
<li>Developing a risk management culture.</li>
<li>Contingency and risk management planning.</li>
<li>Supply chain resilience.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 6: Rethinking the Supply Chain</h3>
<ul>
<li>Supply chain futures and predictions.</li>
<li>Agility.</li>
<li>Network design.</li>
<li>China supply chain effects.</li>
<li>Going “Green”.</li>
<li>Professional leaders/manager development.</li>
<li>Reengineering supply chains end to end to minimize risk.</li>
<li>Organization development.</li>
<li>Change models.</li>
</ul>">

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Project Management for Supply Chain Professionals Course - (PR 4006)

Introduction</h2>
Supply management manages relationships, information, and materials across organizational boundaries to deliver enhanced customer service and economic value. Supply managers aim towards synchronizing and amalgamating these flows by implementing a specific ordering of work activities across time and place, with a beginning, an end, clearly identified inputs and outputs, and a structure for action.
Project Management is also a structured process of managing workflow in a specific order across time and place. The close similarities between these two processes provide a firm foundation to expand the supply manager’s worldview to adopt project management principles and techniques.
This supply chain project management course focuses on integrating project management principles into the supply management process. In this course, you will learn how project management concepts could be applied to enhance supply management.
In this supply chain project management course, You will also gain an understanding of the tools and techniques used to initiate, execute, manage, and control a project. Possible initiatives for the improvement of supply management through the application of project management concepts will be emphasized.
<h3>Understanding Supply Chain Project Management</h3>
As part of our exploration into understanding and learning what supply chain project management is, we must acknowledge its significance in optimizing processes and delivering value in supply chains.
Professionals in this field leverage methodologies that form the backbone of supply chain and project management, which will be covered extensively in this course. By learning these best practices, you will be better prepared to achieve supply chain project management certification and effectively lead a supply chain project.
<h2>Targeted Groups</h2>
<ul>
<li>Procurement managers.</li>
<li>Inventory managers.</li>
<li>Warehouse managers.</li>
<li>Supply chain managers.</li>
<li>Supply chain professionals.</li>
<li>Procurement professionals.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives</h2>
At the end of this supply chain project management course, the participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Organize, plan, launch, track, and close a project.</li>
<li>Create a clear project objective and work breakdown structure.</li>
<li>Master project planning, execution, and control skills.</li>
<li>Identify the skills necessary to lead or serve on a project team.</li>
<li>Utilize project management-related techniques.</li>
<li>Create an accurate project timeline.</li>
<li>Incorporate uncertainties in project time and cost plans.</li>
<li>Use various project scheduling techniques.</li>
<li>Plan a project balancing the scope, time, cost, and quality constraints.</li>
<li>Complete project cost estimation and financial evaluations.</li>
<li>Build and maintain effective and efficient project procedures and processes.</li>
<li>Identify improvement opportunities to manage supply chains better.</li>
<li>Demonstrate proficiency in developing project plans and making sound decisions.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies</h2>
<ul>
<li>Project management.</li>
<li>Project planning and monitoring.</li>
<li>Project scheduling and budgeting.</li>
<li>Risk management planning.</li>
<li>Team building.</li>
<li>Relationship management.</li>
<li>Principled negotiations.</li>
<li>Trend analysis and forecasting.</li>
<li>Project reporting.</li>
<li>Change management.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Setting Up The Scene</h3>
<ul>
<li>Project management terminology and life-cycle project phases.</li>
<li>Overview of the project management process.</li>
<li>Key areas of project management body of knowledge.</li>
<li>Supply management and project management: similarities and differences.</li>
<li>Types of integration.</li>
<li>Impact of early decisions on project success.</li>
<li>Classical project phases.</li>
<li>Project scope – parameters constraints.</li>
<li>The concept of value-for-money project delivery.</li>
<li>The project supply chain.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: The Project Environment – Objective Parameters</h3>
<ul>
<li>Opportunities and problems.</li>
<li>Identifying, analyzing, and managing project stakeholders.</li>
<li>Project charter development.</li>
<li>Beyond SMART objectives.</li>
<li>Introduction to project planning.</li>
<li>Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).</li>
<li>Task characteristics and duration assessment.</li>
<li>Planning and scheduling methods, including critical path scheduling.</li>
<li>The importance of schedule updating.</li>
<li>Incorporating planning in planning and scheduling.</li>
<li>Principles of project estimating.</li>
<li>Understanding resource estimating in projects.</li>
<li>Cost estimation techniques.</li>
<li>Implementing cost control.</li>
<li>Contingency and escalation.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: The Project Environment – Subjective Parameters</h3>
<ul>
<li>Project quality and reliability issues.</li>
<li>Project information management.</li>
<li>Supply chain project management</li>
<li>Project communication management.</li>
<li>Project risk management.</li>
<li>Risk vs. uncertainty.</li>
<li>Risk mitigation strategies.</li>
<li>Contingency planning.</li>
<li>Performance measures and indicators.</li>
<li>Project process maturity.</li>
<li>Root cause analysis.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Effective Project Relationships Management</h3>
<ul>
<li>Suppliers/contractors selection.</li>
<li>Project manager skills.</li>
<li>Building and sustaining professional relationships.</li>
<li>Trust and trust-building.</li>
<li>Principled negotiations.</li>
<li>Leadership skills.</li>
<li>Dealing with professional disagreements.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Project Execution and Closure</h3>
<ul>
<li>Change control processes.</li>
<li>Identifying measurements of project success.</li>
<li>Project monitoring.</li>
<li>Integrating project scope, time, and cost.</li>
<li>Leading and lagging indicators.</li>
<li>Project plan update.</li>
<li>Project reporting: to whom and to what level?</li>
<li>Closing and evaluation of the project.</li>
<li>Project success factors.</li>
<li>Application of lessons learned.</li>
</ul>">

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Purchasing Techniques, Negotiating & Cost Reduction - (PR 4010)

Introduction:</h2>
In the swiftly advancing business landscape, organizations increasingly scrutinize their purchasing and procurement strategies as a significant portion of their revenue—often more than 50%—is invested in goods and services. From raw materials to expedited shipping services, the call to boost profits through strategic cost reduction is a high priority.
This purchasing and negotiation strategy for cost reduction course is designed to propel attendees toward world-class performance in cost reduction by imparting a deep understanding of the effective methods, processes, and techniques utilized in purchasing and negotiating strategies.
Through engagement, participants in the purchasing and negotiation strategy for cost reduction course will learn not only about potential opportunities for optimization but also actively work towards implementing key strategies to realize tangible supply management savings.
<h2>Targeted Groups:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Purchasing supervisors.</li>
<li>Purchasing managers.</li>
<li>Buyers.</li>
<li>Senior buyers.</li>
<li>This purchasing and negotiation strategy for cost reduction course is for personnel who seek to deepen their understanding of the purchasing function.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives:</h2>
Participants will complete this purchasing and negotiation strategy for cost reduction course with the knowledge and skills to:
<ul>
<li>Embark on the path to world-class cost reductions in purchasing and procurement.</li>
<li>Master the processes involved in data mining and the development of strategic plans.</li>
<li>Identify and leverage methods of cost improvement and purchasing cost reduction techniques.</li>
<li>Establish and understand the role of the purchase price index in cost reduction strategies in procurement.</li>
<li>Report and track cost improvements through a structured cost reduction program.</li>
<li>Differentiate and evaluate the concepts of cost reduction vs. cost avoidance.</li>
<li>Analyze and negotiate supplier prices using advanced purchasing negotiation techniques.</li>
<li>Eliminate processes that add little value while focusing on core competencies.</li>
<li>Implement best practices in qualifying suppliers and procurement cost reduction.</li>
<li>Understand the importance of planning in successful negotiations.</li>
<li>Understand the importance of rating and valuing the issues in a negotiation.</li>
<li>Negotiate important issues in various contract clauses.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies:</h2>
Participants in the purchasing and negotiation strategy for cost reduction course will develop skills in:
<ul>
<li>Crafting detailed spending profiles.</li>
<li>Prioritizing duties for maximum effectiveness.</li>
<li>Identifying cost reduction opportunities.</li>
<li>Evaluating and negotiating prices.</li>
<li>Deciphering supplier pricing structures.</li>
<li>Formulating strategic purchasing plans.</li>
<li>Preparing comprehensively for negotiation processes.</li>
<li>Defining negotiation issues.</li>
<li>Understanding the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).</li>
<li>Executing successful negotiations.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content:</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Continuous Improvement in Cost and Productivity:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Recognizing the impetus for change in purchasing negotiation strategies.</li>
<li>Perception of the purchasing function from a cross-functional viewpoint.</li>
<li>A model for purchasing savings and the impact on overall cost reduction.</li>
<li>Total Cost of Ownership models and their significance.</li>
<li>Skill sets are critical for continuous improvement and cost-reduction initiatives.</li>
<li>Cost reduction initiatives.</li>
<li>Procedure for reporting cost savings effectively.</li>
<li>Techniques in data mining for procurement negotiation training.</li>
<li>Strategic focus and spend analysis using ABC analysis.</li>
<li>Embracing modern methods for analyzing procurement expenditures.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Defining Cost Reduction Opportunities:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Engaging user groups in brainstorming to uncover purchasing cost reduction potentials.</li>
<li>Developing company purchase price indexes and comparisons with external benchmarks.</li>
<li>Grasping the supply market dynamics and supplier pricing methodologies.</li>
<li>Techniques for benchmarking and its relevance to purchasing negotiation.</li>
<li>Mapping processes to eliminate activities that contribute minimal value.</li>
<li>Strategic plan development for purchasing materials or services.</li>
<li>Resisting price increases.</li>
<li>You will never be better than your suppliers.</li>
<li>Supplier performance measurement.</li>
<li>Cost-saving methods.</li>
<li>Tactics for resisting price increases and fostering a cost reduction strategy in procurement.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Methods of Price Evaluation:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Price justification.</li>
<li>Model for selecting analysis methods.</li>
<li>Methods of price analysis.</li>
<li>Competition</li>
<li>Historical prices.</li>
<li>How much profit is fair?</li>
<li>Methods of cost analysis.</li>
<li>Breaking down the elements of cost.</li>
<li>Developing "should cost".</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Successful Negotiations:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Our responsibilities as agents.</li>
<li>Negotiation skill sets.</li>
<li>Steps in negotiation preparation.</li>
<li>Methods of persuasion.</li>
<li>What does win-win mean?</li>
<li>Determining the issues.</li>
<li>Defining issues for specific contract provisions.</li>
<li>Payment terms.</li>
<li>Progress payments.</li>
<li>Warranties.</li>
<li>Spare parts.</li>
<li>Rating and valuing issues.</li>
<li>Standards of ethics in Purchasing and Contracting Conduct.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Determining Strengths and Weaknesses:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Self-evaluation of negotiation positions and procurement negotiation training.</li>
<li>Assessing the Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement (BATNA).</li>
<li>Analyzing the counterparty's position to optimize negotiation outcomes.</li>
<li>Negotiation objectives diagram.</li>
<li>Utilizing negotiation planning forms.</li>
<li>Preparing the negotiation team effectively.</li>
<li>Tips for achieving success during the actual negotiation process.</li>
</ul>">

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The Complete Course on Purchasing Management Process - (PR 4019)

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Advanced Procurement Skills & Professional Training Course - (PR 4027)

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Green Supply Chains Management Practices Course - (PR 4028)

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Supply Chain Management: Concept, Solution & Application - (PR 4033)

Introduction</h2>
This supply chain management concept, solution, and application course is designed to dive into the core of supply chain management. It explores its concepts, solutions, and applications, focusing on enhancing understanding and practicality for suppliers and buyers.
Supply chain management is essential for creating a competitive advantage, and this supply chain management concept, solution, and application seminar provides a comprehensive overview of the logistics and demand aspects inherent to supply chains. We aim to explain the fundamental supply chain concept and how it ties into the overarching business strategy.
By integrating key concepts such as supply chain analytics applications, supply chain finance solutions, and integrated supply chain solutions throughout the supply chain management concept, solution, and application course, we strive to provide a holistic and actionable learning experience for all participants.
<h2>Targeted Groups</h2>
<ul>
<li>Procurement professionals.</li>
<li>Purchasing supervisors.</li>
<li>Purchasing managers.</li>
<li>Buyers.</li>
<li>Senior buyers.</li>
<li>Supply chain professionals.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives</h2>
By the end of this supply chain management concept, solution, and application course, participants will:
<ul>
<li>Grasp the basic concepts of supply chain management.</li>
<li>Understand the correlation between time and cost efficiency.</li>
<li>Recognize the value-adding aspect of customer-oriented processes.</li>
<li>Collaborate effectively with all supply chain stakeholders.</li>
<li>Innovate beyond conventional strategies.</li>
<li>Deploy the 8 Rules for effective supply chain management.</li>
<li>Control lead times for goods and material movement.</li>
<li>Achieve a cost and service quality balance.</li>
<li>Apply best practices and learned skills for workplace improvement.</li>
<li>Enhance supply chain planning solutions.</li>
<li>Apply practically the 8 Rules for Effective Supply Chain Management.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies</h2>
Participants in the supply chain management concept, solution, and application course will improve the following:
<ul>
<li>Acknowledge business process changes.</li>
<li>Realize the financial benefits of competent supply chain management.</li>
<li>Understand how time accumulation affects supply chains and profitability.</li>
<li>Retain and execute improvement strategies.</li>
<li>Align with best-in-class practices.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Fundamental Supply Chain Concepts</h3>
<ul>
<li>Definitions and importance of logistics and supply chain management.</li>
<li>Integration of buying, making, moving, and selling activities.</li>
<li>Evolution and history of supply chain management.</li>
<li>Dynamics and operations within the supply chain.</li>
<li>Supply Chain Operations Reference Models (SCOR).</li>
<li>The Theory of Constraints (TOC).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Key Aspects and Rules of Supply Chain Management</h3>
<ul>
<li>The cost/service balance.</li>
<li>Customer service principles.</li>
<li>Organizational structures.</li>
<li>Impact on supply chains.</li>
<li>Principles of inventory management.</li>
<li>Examination of lead times and their effects.</li>
<li>Adding value.</li>
<li>Production options/changes.</li>
<li>Focus on adding value through production options and trade-offs.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Embracing Supply Chain Solutions</h3>
<ul>
<li>Understanding departmental conflicts.</li>
<li>The benefits of interdepartmental synergy.</li>
<li>A supply chain view of total acquisition costs.</li>
<li>Competitive advantages arising from effective supply chain management.</li>
<li>Looking at demand amplification and the "Forester" effect.</li>
<li>Appreciating the effects of uncertainty and unresponsiveness.</li>
<li>Seeing how we currently manage the supply chain.</li>
<li>Current supply chain management practices versus more effective alternatives.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: The Interplay of Strategy and Supply Chain Relationships</h3>
<ul>
<li>Strategic impact on order quantities.</li>
<li>Cost reduction.</li>
<li>Development sharing and collaboration strategies.</li>
<li>Overcoming external and internal transaction barriers.</li>
<li>Integration of supply chain relationships.</li>
<li>Segmentation and product formatting.</li>
<li>Business strategic alignment with supply chain decisions.</li>
<li>Exploring supply chain planning.</li>
<li>Competitive positioning strategies.</li>
<li>Outsourcing considerations and leveraging postpone-and-consolidate logistics.</li>
<li>Using postponement and consolidation logistics.</li>
<li>Examining demand planning.</li>
<li>Approaches of Quick Response (QR), Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI).</li>
<li>Collaborative Planning and Forecast Requirements (CPFR).</li>
<li>The lean supply chain.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Enhancing Supply Chains with Analytical Applications</h3>
<ul>
<li>Manufacturing and retailer case studies.</li>
<li>The major lessons and key aspects from experience.</li>
<li>Oil and Gas in the UK experiences.</li>
<li>Key questions to be answered.</li>
<li>The changes needed with suppliers and customers.</li>
<li>The changes need to be made to internal organization and management practices.</li>
<li>Potential action is needed.</li>
<li>The 'doing nothing' future, with 'lessons from experience.'</li>
<li>Guarding against futures of higher stock levels and competition gains.</li>
<li>Breaking down traditional silo/closed management.</li>
<li>A 5-step approach to logistics and supplier development.</li>
<li>The Supply Chain Rules (Encore).</li>
<li>The rules to give competitive advantage from effective supply chain management.</li>
</ul>">

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Tendering, Procurement, and Negotiation Skills Training - (PR 4034)

Introduction:</h2>
This comprehensive tendering, procurement, and negotiation skills training course will equip participants with the expertise to manage effective tendering and procurement activities within their organizations. Enhancing their negotiation skills is pivotal in ensuring successful outcomes in procurement processes.
Tendering is a crucial function that can greatly impact an organization's financial health, necessitating precise execution to maximize effectiveness and manage costs. Leadership in contemporary organizations understands that proficiency in managing tenders is essential for augmenting revenue.
This tendering, procurement, and negotiation skills program combines the essentials of tendering with procurement skills, aiming to identify and implement the best practices during the early stages of the contracting process. The intention is to enable participants to take the necessary steps to generate optimal total value for their organizations through effective procurement negotiation training and an in-depth understanding of the tendering process.
Effective procurement negotiation is the linchpin for achieving favorable contract terms and building valuable supplier relations. In this segment tendering, procurement, and negotiation skills course, participants gain hands-on experience in procurement negotiations, learning to leverage techniques that encompass both the strategic and tactical aspects of negotiation within procurement settings.
The tendering, procurement, and negotiation skills training covers various negotiation scenarios with practical exercises, ensuring that procurement professionals leave with a sharpened negotiation skill set appropriate for various procurement contexts.
<h2>Targeted Groups:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Contracts professionals.</li>
<li>Purchasing professionals.</li>
<li>Project planning personnel.</li>
<li>Procurement professionals who are responsible for negotiations.</li>
<li>This tendering, procurement, and negotiation skills training course is for other individuals involved in planning, evaluating, preparing, and managing tenders, specifications, and procurement activities who seek to achieve excellence in these areas within their organizations.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives:</h2>
Upon completion, participants in this tendering, procurement, and negotiation skills course should be able to:
<ul>
<li>Discuss elements of a good procurement process.</li>
<li>Develop methods of contractor performance measurement.</li>
<li>Learn methods of tender evaluation.</li>
<li>Analyze competitive bidding processes.</li>
<li>Produce tender evaluation criteria.</li>
<li>Select the right procurement strategy.</li>
<li>Review contract strategies.</li>
<li>Improve procurement and negotiation skills.</li>
<li>Learn about the methods of tender evaluation.</li>
<li>Understand the selection of new suppliers.</li>
<li>Apply past supplier performance for better selection.</li>
<li>Evaluate how cost savings are transferred to the organization's bottom line.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies:</h2>
At the end of this tendering, procurement, and negotiation skills course, the target competencies will be able to develop the following:
<ul>
<li>Enhance the effectiveness of roles within the organization.</li>
<li>Expertise in tendering processes.</li>
<li>Identify and implement cost reduction opportunities.</li>
<li>Advanced control of procurement negotiations.</li>
<li>Transform supplier relationships through procurement and tendering processes.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content:</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: How Tendering and Procurement Aligns with the Organization Strategy:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Influence of the external environment.</li>
<li>Adapting to new business models.</li>
<li>Critical supply strategies.</li>
<li>Transforming the supplier relationship.</li>
<li>Mastering the procurement cycle.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: The Tendering Process:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Elements of a good procurement and competitive bidding process.</li>
<li>Selecting the right contracting strategy.</li>
<li>Stages in the tendering process.</li>
<li>Developing tender evaluation criteria.</li>
<li>Negotiating with short-listed suppliers.</li>
<li>Determining if a good price was obtained.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Advanced Procurement Skills:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Deepening supplier relationships.</li>
<li>Defining the organization's objective in supplier relationships.</li>
<li>Being an exemplary customer.</li>
<li>Distinctions between Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) and collaboration.</li>
<li>Optimizing the supply base.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: The Negotiation Process:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Steering clear of confrontational negotiations.</li>
<li>Effective communication techniques.</li>
<li>Innovative influence techniques.</li>
<li>Grasping the negotiator's power dynamics.</li>
<li>Handling negotiation pressure points and countermeasures.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Implementing Improvements in the Organisation:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Attraction and retention of procurement management talent.</li>
<li>Crafting a realistic personal action plan for improvement.</li>
<li>Business continuity and contingency planning for procurement.</li>
<li>Unpacking activity-based costing.</li>
<li>Pathways for procurement contribution to the organization's finances.</li>
</ul>
In each unit, procurement negotiation skills training and an understanding of negotiation skills for procurement professionals will be emphasized.
The tendering, procurement, and negotiation skills course will guide participants through the intricacies of procurement and negotiation, ensuring they are equipped with the tools and techniques to execute successful procurement tendering and negotiation processes.">

Vienna (Austria)

15 - 19 Jul 2024

4900 Euro

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Effective Global Procurement and Logistics Management - (PR 4035)

Introduction</h2>
This new approach to global procurement and logistics management seeks to optimize the value derived from procurement activities by combining traditional methods with advanced tools, techniques, and innovative approaches.
Participants in the effective procurement and logistics management course will gain insights into the category management methodology and acquire the necessary knowledge to apply this approach successfully implemented by world-class organizations.
The effective procurement and logistics management seminar illustrates how category management, encompassing supplier sourcing, management, development, and relationship management, significantly contributes to economic profit in stellar supply chains.
By the end of the effective procurement and logistics management course, attendees will understand how to realize these advantages, how effective global procurement is, and how the supply chain can create economic profit for world-class supply chains; we will also demonstrate how this can be achieved.
The effective procurement and logistics management course integrates a wealth of concepts key to understanding effective procurement and global procurement best practices. It aims to deliver a comprehensive educational experience that prepares professionals to navigate and excel in the complex, interconnected realm of global procurement and logistics.
<h2>Targeted Groups</h2>
<ul>
<li>Procurement professionals.</li>
<li>Supply chain professionals.</li>
<li>Tender or bidding managers.</li>
<li>Project engineers and project managers.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives</h2>
By the conclusion of this effective procurement and logistics management course, participants will be equipped to:
<ul>
<li>Apply a profound understanding of supply chain activities.</li>
<li>Identify, analyze, and evaluate procurement opportunities.</li>
<li>Understand the key aspects of category management.</li>
<li>Utilize a suite of tools and techniques for procurement excellence.</li>
<li>Implement procurement and supply chain organizational enhancements.</li>
<li>Comprehend current procurement and supply chain activities.</li>
<li>Assess these for value opportunities.</li>
<li>Determine how to maximize value from procurement.</li>
<li>Understand procurement's role within the entire supply chain.</li>
<li>Employ pertinent tools for effective procurement.</li>
<li>Commit to ongoing procurement and supply chain improvements.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies</h2>
At the end of this effective procurement and logistics management course, the participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Analysis.</li>
<li>Evaluation.</li>
<li>Improvements.</li>
<li>Making change.</li>
<li>Sharing and understanding diverse perspectives.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Understanding Procurement and Category Management</h3>
This unit provides foundational knowledge on effective procurement and its functions in the global procurement process. Participants will learn:
<ul>
<li>Definitions of procurement and purchasing.</li>
<li>Envisioning effective procurement and its benefits.</li>
<li>The challenges of global procurement in the 21st century.</li>
<li>The relationship between procurement and the Supply Chain.</li>
<li>Achieving supply chain excellence through effective procurement strategies.</li>
<li>Competitive advantage via effective procurement practices.</li>
<li>Impact of the 2008 economic crisis on supply chains.</li>
<li>Options for structuring procurement organizationally.</li>
<li>Understanding global supply chain models and types.</li>
<li>Defining category management and its evolution.</li>
<li>Overview and consideration of category grouping.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Maximizing Value and Procurement Excellence by Using Varied Routes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Exploring the procurement excellence roadmap.</li>
<li>Description of the purchasing and supplier loops.</li>
<li>Advantages of employing category management.</li>
<li>Improvement of value through category management.</li>
<li>How does category management build from P2P and the procurement cycle?</li>
<li>Integration of approaches for effective procurement management.</li>
<li>The dual objectives of maximizing procurement value.</li>
<li>Value opportunities derived from a category management application.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Understanding the Supplier Sourcing and Selection Routes</h3>
<ul>
<li>Revisiting traditional purchasing.</li>
<li>The P2P and procurement cycle context.</li>
<li>Conducting value and risk analysis within effective procurement planning.</li>
<li>Implementing the Kraljic matrix in global procurement strategies.</li>
<li>Uncovering category management and value opportunities.</li>
<li>The role of volume concentration in global procurement.</li>
<li>Assessing best price evaluations.</li>
<li>Delving into low-cost country sourcing practices.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Understanding Collaborative Supplier Management</h3>
<ul>
<li>Outlining supplier management objectives.</li>
<li>Exploring supplier and customer connections.</li>
<li>Examining supplier service within global procurement management.</li>
<li>Integration of supplier management and contract management.</li>
<li>Adopting best practices for contract management.</li>
<li>Defining supplier relationship management and its objectives.</li>
<li>Applying Supplier relationship management effectively.</li>
<li>Emphasizing collaboration in global procurement and logistics.</li>
<li>Defining the goals for supplier development.</li>
<li>Best practices for supplier development.</li>
<li>Learning from shifts in perspectives and post-implementation results.</li>
<li>Identifying the benefits and improvements in supplier management.</li>
<li>Understanding the outcomes of Category Management in the value opportunities.</li>
<li>Specification enhancements development.</li>
<li>Joint process development and linking prices with suppliers.</li>
<li>Navigating value chain disruption and managing supply chain risks.</li>
<li>Best practices within supplier management.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Recognizing and Overcoming The Barriers to Category Management</h3>
<ul>
<li>Identifying common barriers and challenges to effective procurement.</li>
<li>Addressing internal conflicts.</li>
<li>Perceptions of procurement.</li>
<li>Tackling the lack of creativity.</li>
<li>Requisite skill sets.</li>
<li>Building trust.</li>
<li>Managing the fear of change.</li>
<li>Strategies for overcoming barriers to effective procurement.</li>
<li>Implementing best practices for adopting innovative procurement concepts.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 6: The 4 Steps Model for Introducing Category Management</h3>
<ul>
<li>Analyzing the current situation.</li>
<li>Identifying key questions.</li>
<li>Conducting thorough research and analysis for effective procurement planning.</li>
<li>Designing and improving procurement processes.</li>
<li>Key questions for effective procurement management</li>
<li>What needs doing?</li>
<li>Planning new processes and structures for global procurement.</li>
<li>Operating and reviewing new processes.</li>
<li>Making category management strategy an ongoing process.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 7: Category Management and Rethinking The Supply Chain</h3>
<ul>
<li>Making projections about the future state of the supply chain.</li>
<li>Incorporating agility in global procurement strategy.</li>
<li>Design considerations for network design.</li>
<li>Understanding the effects of China's supply chains.</li>
<li>Embracing environmental sustainability (Going "Green").</li>
<li>Developing professional leaders/managers in global procurement.</li>
<li>The 10 improvements for reengineering end-to-end supply chains.</li>
<li>Improving supply chains through reengineering.</li>
<li>Creating economic profit through effective global procurement practices.</li>
<li>The 5 steps to achieving supply chain excellence.</li>
<li>Developing the supply chain strategy.</li>
<li>Supply chain strategy best practice.</li>
<li>A vision for future global procurement and logistics.</li>
</ul>">

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Effective Purchasing, Tendering & Supplier Selection Course - (PR 4036)

Introduction:</h2>
This effective purchasing and supplier selection management course aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of the critical role of effective purchasing, tendering, and supplier selection in delivering customer satisfaction through an efficient supply chain.
Participants in the effective purchasing and supplier selection management course will gain insight into the advantages of effective purchasing and how to apply effective purchasing practices. This effective purchasing and supplier selection management course will explore purchasing management courses alongside the strategies for procurement supplier selection.
This effective purchasing and supplier selection management course provides participants with various skills and insights necessary for effective purchasing, tendering, and supplier selection. It is catered to professionals seeking training courses and those looking to purchase courses near their location. With an emphasis on practical application, attendees will emerge with the knowledge and tools required for efficient management supplier selection and enhanced purchasing strategies.
Enhance your skills and knowledge with our comprehensive purchasing management course. This course is perfect for anyone looking to purchase a course near them. The effective purchasing and supplier selection management course aims to cover everything from basic purchasing practices to expert supplier selection in procurement.
<h2>Targeted Groups:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Purchasing professionals.</li>
<li>Those involved in defining the specification and evaluating supplier performance.</li>
<li>Those involved in preparing and analyzing bids.</li>
<li>Those with an involvement in supplier relationships.</li>
<li>Those whose role involves negotiation with outside agencies.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives:</h2>
By the end of this effective purchasing and supplier selection management course, participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Identify and reduce procurement risks by developing a robust action plan.</li>
<li>Enable enhanced performance from suppliers through structured evaluation and performance measurement.</li>
<li>Understand and strengthen your supply chain.</li>
<li>Strengthen the supply chain for more resilient operations.</li>
<li>Fortify operating relationships within the organization.</li>
<li>Uphold contracts based on measured performance and established criteria.</li>
<li>Gain a working understanding of the negotiation process.</li>
<li>Understand the essential tools of effective purchasing and its importance.</li>
<li>Engage with suppliers confidently and manage supplier relationships effectively.</li>
<li>Secure improved negotiated outcomes beneficial to the organization.</li>
<li>Leverage performance measurement as a crucial tool for driving supplier improvement.</li>
<li>Comprehend the key components of a well-structured tender.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies:</h2>
At the end of this effective purchasing and supplier selection management course, the target competencies will be able to improve the following:
<ul>
<li>Planning.</li>
<li>Tendering.</li>
<li>Negotiation.</li>
<li>Supplier management.</li>
<li>Measuring performance.</li>
<li>Communication.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content:</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: The Role of Purchasing in the Company</h3>
<ul>
<li>The impact of purchasing on the organization's success.</li>
<li>Exploring the purpose of a business in the context of purchasing.</li>
<li>Navigating the challenges of acting as a mediator between stakeholders.</li>
<li>Understanding the purchasing process and the procurement cycle.</li>
<li>Positioning the purchasing function strategically within the company.</li>
<li>Defining the vision, mission, and values of the purchasing department.</li>
<li>Structuring the purchasing department for optimal performance.</li>
<li>Identifying areas for performance improvement in purchasing practices.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Developing the Purchasing Strategy</h3>
<ul>
<li>Engaging with internal customers to meet organizational needs.</li>
<li>The importance of developing effective purchase agreements.</li>
<li>Involvement in specifying requirements and choosing purchasing courses near you.</li>
<li>Supplier selection methodology and management of supplier selection.</li>
<li>Criteria for pre-qualifying suppliers and ensuring they align with organizational goals.</li>
<li>Integrating supplier selection into the procurement process.</li>
<li>Leveraging market position to meet organizational needs effectively.</li>
<li>Quality management systems, such as ISO 9000, play a role in purchasing.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Selecting The Right Supplier and Evaluating Performance</h3>
<ul>
<li>Tailoring supplier capabilities to fulfill specific organizational requirements.</li>
<li>Adopting a total cost approach to purchasing and understanding the importance of supplier selection.</li>
<li>Analyzing costs.</li>
<li>Analyzing value propositions in purchasing.</li>
<li>Unearthing hidden costs and how they affect purchasing decisions.</li>
<li>Implementing life cycle costing techniques.</li>
<li>Utilizing price indices to make informed purchasing decisions.</li>
<li>Systematizing performance evaluation to ensure supplier compliance and effectiveness.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Tendering and Analyzing The Bid</h3>
<ul>
<li>Understanding specific process needs and the tendering process.</li>
<li>Differentiating between types of tenders.</li>
<li>Electronic commerce and e-auctions</li>
<li>Objectively evaluating bids to select the most advantageous offers.</li>
<li>Navigating terms and conditions of contracts to protect organizational interests.</li>
<li>Implementing standard contract clauses for clarity and legal compliance.</li>
<li>Selecting appropriate methods of payment to suit organizational cash flows.</li>
<li>Expediting agreements and dealing with potential contractor non-performance issues.</li>
<li>What if the contractor fails to deliver the legal issues?</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Negotiating the Contract and Preparing a Plan of Improvement Action for Purchasing</h3>
<ul>
<li>Defining the scope and techniques of negotiation within supplier management.</li>
<li>Identifying obstacles to effective negotiation and how to overcome them.</li>
<li>Understand different negotiation styles and select the most appropriate.</li>
<li>Employing the right tools throughout the negotiation process.</li>
<li>Navigating through different phases of a negotiation successfully.</li>
<li>Establishing do's and don't during negotiation to achieve desired outcomes.</li>
<li>Focusing on key areas of world-class performance in purchasing training courses.</li>
<li>Evaluating performance gaps and developing improvement action plans for purchasing departments.</li>
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Sustainable Procurement Best Practices & Processes Course - (PR 4037)

Introduction</h2>
The procurement function has evolved significantly, transforming from an administrative role into a strategic entity essential to business success. It is no longer acceptable to merely transform requisitions into orders and passively await the delivery of goods or services. In today's competitive environment, procurement must deliver substantive value by providing products and services that foster the organization's overall well-being.
In this sustainable procurement best practices and process course, it is crucial to implement best practices in the procurement process to achieve this objective across four levels: strategic, tactical, operational, and contingency. This sustainable procurement best practices and process course offers essential insights and guidelines for attendees to develop and maintain high-performing procurement functions that adhere to best-in-class procurement practices.
Adhering to sustainable procurement best practices is imperative for organizations aiming to achieve efficient and responsible purchasing. This segment explores the best practices procurement departments can utilize to ensure procurement activities contribute positively to the company's sustainability goals and performance requirements.
By exploring best practices in procurement and procurement department best practices, participants will learn how to align their procurement actions with organizational objectives while promoting economic, environmental, and social benefits.
<h2>Targeted Groups</h2>
<ul>
<li>Contracts personnel</li>
<li>Purchasing personnel</li>
<li>Procurement personnel.</li>
<li>Project, engineering, operational, and maintenance personnel involved in the planning and execution of purchases and contracts.</li>
<li>This sustainable procurement best practices and process course is for individuals in organizations seeking to elevate the competency levels of their staff engaged in acquiring materials, equipment, and services.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives</h2>
Participants in the sustainable procurement best practices and process course will achieve the following objectives:
<ul>
<li>Comprehend the progression and evolution of procurement.</li>
<li>Discuss the system inputs, outputs, and processes.</li>
<li>Construct meaningful performance measurements.</li>
<li>Recognize the necessary actions across all four levels.</li>
<li>Enhance skills in all aspects of strategic procurement.</li>
<li>Lead, planned, and oversaw the procurement process effectively.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies</h2>
By the end of the sustainable procurement best practices and process course, participants will have developed competencies in:
<ul>
<li>Delivering real value more efficiently.</li>
<li>Minimizing non-value-adding activities.</li>
<li>Enhancing relationships among staff, customers, and suppliers.</li>
<li>Reducing the total cost of ownership.</li>
<li>Improving supplier performance and adhering to procurement negotiations best practices.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Seeing Procurement as a Dynamic, Interactive System</h3>
<ul>
<li>Analyzing the system approach versus the traditional functional approach.</li>
<li>Exploring the goal of best practice procurement.</li>
<li>Creating a strategic procurement plan.</li>
<li>Surveying the procurement process.</li>
<li>Integrating procurement within the supply chain.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Developing the Strategic Procurement Decisions</h3>
<ul>
<li>Understanding make/buy decisions.</li>
<li>Evaluating vertical integration.</li>
<li>Cultivating alliances and partnerships.</li>
<li>Exploring intercompany trade.</li>
<li>Discussing reciprocity and countertrade.</li>
<li>Strategizing supplier policy.</li>
<li>Coordinating strategies in procurement.</li>
<li>Structuring the purchasing organization.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Implementing the Tactical Procurement Decisions</h3>
<ul>
<li>Encouraging supplier involvement.</li>
<li>Performing value analysis.</li>
<li>Ensuring quality assurance.</li>
<li>Executing supplier selection.</li>
<li>Rating and ranking supplier performance.</li>
<li>Managing contracts effectively.</li>
<li>Utilizing IT systems and e-procurement solutions.</li>
<li>Enforcing policies and procedures.</li>
<li>Staffing the procurement department with best practices.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Dealing with Operational Procurement Decisions</h3>
<ul>
<li>Choosing appropriate ordering processes.</li>
<li>Managing quality issues promptly.</li>
<li>Follow-up procedures.</li>
<li>Managing overdue orders with efficiency.</li>
<li>Expediting processes.</li>
<li>Streamlining the payment process.</li>
<li>Strategizing to reduce procurement costs, especially for small-value purchase orders.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Contingency Procurement Decisions</h3>
<ul>
<li>Identifying different contingency situations.</li>
<li>Effective contingency management.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 6: Procurement Performance Measurement</h3>
<ul>
<li>Conducting spend analysis.</li>
<li>Calculating the total cost of ownership.</li>
<li>Evaluating supplier performance measurements.</li>
</ul>">

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Logistics & Supply Chain Management Training Course - (PR 4038)

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Managing & Negotiating with Consultants & Contractors - (PR 4040)

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Managing Vendor Qualification, Performance & Contract Compliance - (PR 4041)

Introduction</h2>
Are we doing the right things? Despite all our efforts, deliveries must be on time, over budget and below performance. How we approach our procurement has a marked effect on the result; therefore, we must ensure we use the right processes and criteria to select our suppliers and understand vendor management qualification and contract compliance.
This vendor management qualification and contract compliance seminar will use the system approach to demonstrate the optimal method for vendor qualification, enhance performance, and ensure contract compliance.
The ability to ensure contract compliance is a fundamental aspect of vendor management. This vendor management qualification certification course offers contract compliance training to help professionals understand the nuances of legal agreements and how to manage them effectively.
Participants who complete the vendor management qualification certification course can expect to walk away with the knowledge necessary to identify non-compliance and employ strategies to rectify it, thereby protecting their organizations from potential risks and losses.
<h2>Vendor Management Training for Effective Procurement</h2>
Effectively managing vendor relations is critical to procurement success, which is why vendor management training is so valuable. Procurement professionals will learn to effectively assess vendor qualifications, manage vendor performance, and ensure contract compliance by enrolling and seeking a vendor management training certification course. Vendor manager training can equip participants with best practices and methodologies to achieve successful outcomes when interfacing with suppliers and contractors.
<h2>Targeted Groups</h2>
<ul>
<li>Contracts, procurement, and project personnel.</li>
<li>Engineering, operational, quality, and maintenance personnel.</li>
<li>And all others involved in interfacing with contractors or suppliers in acquiring materials, equipment, parts, and services or anyone who wants to improve supplier performance and gain successful outcomes from contracting situations.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives</h2>
At the end of this vendor management qualification certification course, participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Cover the vital steps in a proper supplier evaluation.</li>
<li>Match customer requirements with the correct supplier segmentation.</li>
<li>Develop meaningful performance measures.</li>
<li>Learn how to use those performance results for continuous improvement.</li>
<li>Cast the net wide enough to ensure an adequate number of suppliers to select from.</li>
<li>Select only the best suppliers to participate.</li>
<li>Measure their performance objectively.</li>
<li>Ensure that they perform according to expectations.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies</h2>
<ul>
<li>Vendor selection.</li>
<li>Vendor integration.</li>
<li>Vendor performance management.</li>
<li>Sourcing strategies.</li>
<li>Leadership.</li>
<li>Communication.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content:</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Vendor Qualification: Compiling an Approved Supplier List</h3>
<ul>
<li>Determining the goals and objectives of procurement.</li>
<li>Formulating a proper Procurement strategy.</li>
<li>Involving the end-user in determining the required technologies.</li>
<li>Developing an approved supplier list based on the required technologies.</li>
<li>Compiling supplier selection criteria.</li>
<li>Forming commodity teams to evaluate and provide supply solutions.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Supplier Assessment</h3>
<ul>
<li>Supplier initial questionnaire.</li>
<li>Detailed supplier investigation.</li>
<li>Quality management systems.</li>
<li>Performing a supplier assessment.</li>
<li>Process capability studies.</li>
<li>Certification of suppliers.</li>
<li>ISO Certification.</li>
<li>Setting acceptance criteria.</li>
<li>Engaging the supplier during the tender process.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Supplier Performance - What to Measure?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Carrot or stick?</li>
<li>The setting of objects that are aligned with the goals of the company.</li>
<li>Characteristics of a good performance measurement system.</li>
<li>Developing a supplier performance system.</li>
<li>Sources of data.</li>
<li>Common mistakes in data recording.</li>
<li>Implementing the system.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Supplier Performance – Interpreting the Results</h3>
<ul>
<li>Rating the individual supplier.</li>
<li>Ranking your suppliers.</li>
<li>Disseminating the results: what to do and what not to do.</li>
<li>Rewarding good behavior.</li>
<li>Supplier recognition.</li>
<li>Punishing bad behavior.</li>
<li>Corrective action procedures.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Remedies for Breach of Contract</h3>
<ul>
<li>What constitutes a breach?</li>
<li>The different types of breaches.</li>
<li>Different remedies are available.</li>
<li>Determining the quantum of damages.</li>
<li>Liquidated damages.</li>
<li>Equitable damages.</li>
<li>Court injunction.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 6: Determining the Outcome</h3>
<ul>
<li>Project close-out report.</li>
<li>Time.</li>
<li>Performance/quality.</li>
<li>Cost.</li>
<li>Lessons learned.</li>
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Effective Purchasing and Contract Negotiation Strategies - (PR 4046)

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Warehouse and Stores Management Training Course - (PR 4047)

Introduction</h2>
This comprehensive warehouse and store management training course aims to provide an understanding of the inner workings and management of warehouses and stores. This warehouse and store management course is tailored for professionals who seek to enhance their skills and knowledge in warehouse and store management, providing them with the tools and insights needed to ensure efficient and cost-effective operations.
Warehouses and stores are often under-rated operations in organizations, yet they are essential in customer service. This warehouse and store management seminar aims to show how to implement all essential tools for managing warehousing and stores effectively.
This warehouse and store management course includes understanding warehouse management basics, leveraging warehouse management system training, and obtaining a certificate course in warehouse management for professionals looking to certify their expertise.
This warehouse and store management seminar serves as an introduction to warehouse management, providing the foundational knowledge and skills necessary to understand the complex nature of warehouse operations. The training is designed for individuals looking to establish a strong base in warehouse management basics, serving as an entry point to more specialized warehouse training programs.
By the end of this warehouse and store management seminar, participants will have a broader understanding of the operational aspects and be prepared for further warehouse management system courses and potential warehouse certification. It represents an investment in your professional growth in warehousing and store management.
<h2>The Warehouse Training and Performance</h2>
Within this course lie the key elements that govern effective training and performance in a warehouse setting. The warehouse training and performance unit focuses on implementing practices that optimize productivity and efficiency.
This warehouse and store management course represents an important stepping stone for those aspiring to achieve warehouse certification, providing the insights and foundational skills for a competent warehouse professional.
Whether attending and participating in in-store management training programs, our course will meet your professional training needs and help prepare you for the challenges and opportunities in warehouse and store management. As a part of our commitment to professional development, we guide participants through gaining a warehouse management certificate, confirming their expertise and proficiency in managing warehouse operations.
This segment will explore the pathways to warehouse management system certification, ensuring that participants can showcase their certified skills to employers and stakeholders upon successful completion. This comprehensive course strives to equip professionals with a robust skill set, providing a competitive edge through recognized warehouse management certification.
<h2>Targeted Groups</h2>
<ul>
<li>Warehouse managers.</li>
<li>Stores managers.</li>
<li>Procurement professionals.</li>
<li>Supply chain professionals.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives</h2>
At the end of this warehouse and store management course, the participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Evaluate procedures.</li>
<li>Change and improve methods.</li>
<li>Eliminate wasteful activities/costs.</li>
<li>Avoid all those internal problems that limit performance.</li>
<li>Obtain added value for money.</li>
<li>Improve customer service.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies</h2>
<ul>
<li>Warehouse operations analysis.</li>
<li>Productivity improvements.</li>
<li>Equipment selection and maintenance.</li>
<li>Conducting safe operations.</li>
<li>Reducing costs and improving service levels.</li>
<li>Using a framework for continual improvement.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: The Role of the Warehouse</h3>
<ul>
<li>Why do we need a warehouse?</li>
<li>What functions do they cover?</li>
<li>How do they fit into the supply chain?</li>
<li>The balance between sorting and storing.</li>
<li>12 initial questions to ask about warehousing activity.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Product Classification</h3>
<ul>
<li>Supply/demand variables.</li>
<li>ABC analysis or the 80/20 rule.</li>
<li>Determining product handling groups.</li>
<li>Throughputs and product formats.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Layout Options</h3>
<ul>
<li>Receiving options.</li>
<li>Storage options.</li>
<li>Picking/assembly options.</li>
<li>Dispatching options.</li>
<li>Using the floor and the height space.</li>
<li>Organizing for flow.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Methods and Equipment</h3>
<ul>
<li>Warehouse structures.</li>
<li>Loading bays.</li>
<li>Selecting forklift trucks.</li>
<li>Selecting racking.</li>
<li>Implications for warehouse layouts.</li>
<li>Operational timings and planning.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Health and Safety</h3>
<ul>
<li>Duty of care.</li>
<li>Inspections and risk assessment analysis.</li>
<li>Equipment maintenance and care.</li>
<li>Raising people's awareness.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 6: Security and Loss</h3>
<ul>
<li>Minimizing internal theft.</li>
<li>Minimizing external theft.</li>
<li>Preventative measures will be briefly discussed.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 7: Productivity and Costs</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fixed and variable costs.</li>
<li>Typical costs involved.</li>
<li>A model for understanding the roles of productivity, utilization, and performance.</li>
<li>Setting productivity and cost targets.</li>
<li>The importance of having measurements and key indications of performance.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 8: Service Levels</h3>
<ul>
<li>Internal and external customers.</li>
<li>The three key customer service measures.</li>
<li>Customer service sampling.</li>
<li>Effects of substandard service.</li>
<li>Minimizing errors.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 9: Warehouse Layout</h3>
<ul>
<li>Different types of layouts have advantages and disadvantages.</li>
<li>Planning for flow in the warehouse.</li>
<li>Checklists to help in deciding the best option.</li>
</ul>">

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Excellence in Warehouse and Inventory Management Course - (PR 4049)

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Inventory and Stock Control Management Training Course - (PR 4051)

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Logistics & Transportation Management Training Course - (PR 4062)

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Supply Chain and Inventory Management Training Course - (PR 4066)

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Purchasing Management Masterclass Training Course - (PR 4069)

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Purchasing Management Mini Master Training Course - (PR 4078)

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The Strategic Buyer Procurement Training Course - (PR 4084)

Introduction:</h2>
International strategic buyer procurement is a complex process that has the potential to provide many benefits to the organization in the form of lower prices, higher quality, and improved supplier performance. This strategic buyer procurement course aims to furnish participants with the strategic buyer procurement skills necessary to thrive in the modern marketplace.
Throughout this strategic buyer training course, participants will engage in a buyer training course designed to equip them with the necessary tools and knowledge to excel in their roles. By the end of the strategic buyer procurement course, attendees will have a clear picture of what a strategic buyer's role is and how to apply it effectively in their careers.
<h2>Understanding the Strategic Buyer Role:</h2>
In today's procurement landscape, understanding what a strategic buyer and the strategic buyer mean is crucial. A strategic buyer operates with a long-term outlook, focusing on developing relationships, leveraging market trends, and optimizing the supply chain to add value to the organization. This strategic buyer procurement course will delve into the definition of a strategic buyer and explore how this role is evolving in the procurement world.
<h2>Targeted Groups:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Experienced buyers and purchasing agents.</li>
<li>Purchasing managers and purchasing directors</li>
<li>Supply chain management personnel responsible for international logistics.</li>
<li>Managers are interested in enhancing their management, negotiation, and buying skills.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives:</h2>
At the end of this strategic buyer procurement course, the participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Locate, evaluate, and manage international sources.</li>
<li>Implement best practices in international procurement.</li>
<li>Effectively draft an international procurement contract.</li>
<li>Manage the international movement of materials.</li>
<li>Examine how to locate and evaluate new sources internationally.</li>
<li>Consider the impact of the Internet on purchasing operations.</li>
<li>Review best practices in international purchasing.</li>
<li>Analyze ways of managing suppliers more effectively.</li>
<li>Study new concepts in inventory management.</li>
<li>Enhance their negotiating skills.</li>
<li>Understand the proper drafting of international contracts.</li>
<li>Plan for effective international transportation management.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Purchasing methods.</li>
<li>Supplier communication.</li>
<li>Writing purchase orders.</li>
<li>Logistics methods.</li>
<li>Sourcing of materials.</li>
<li>Negotiation.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content:</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: The Modern Buying Function:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Globalization and its effects.</li>
<li>Utilizing the Internet for procurement.</li>
<li>Modern buying practices.</li>
<li>Assuring supplier performance.</li>
<li>Methods for determining price.</li>
<li>Procurement's role in the organization.</li>
<li>Procurement performance measurement.</li>
<li>Long-term contract pricing formulas.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: International Buying:</h3>
<ul>
<li>International buying operations.</li>
<li>International counter-trade.</li>
<li>Achieving the benefits of global procurement.</li>
<li>Overcoming the difficulties of international buying.</li>
<li>Utilizing the learning curve.</li>
<li>Ensuring the quality of material deliveries.</li>
<li>International buying and inventory management.</li>
<li>Reducing costs in inventory management.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: International Supplier Sourcing:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Preparing to move beyond domestic sourcing.</li>
<li>Global sourcing.</li>
<li>Locating international sources.</li>
<li>Determining the type of supplier to utilize.</li>
<li>Single source vs. multiple source policy.</li>
<li>Source evaluation criteria.</li>
<li>Managing exchange rate risk.</li>
<li>Dealing with issues of ethics.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Negotiation And Contract Preparation:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Insights into the negotiation process.</li>
<li>Characteristics of the effective negotiator.</li>
<li>Preparing to negotiate.</li>
<li>Negotiating techniques.</li>
<li>Obtaining the benefits of supplier partnering.</li>
<li>International buying legalities.</li>
<li>Drafting the international contract.</li>
<li>Dispute resolution mechanisms.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: International Movement Of Goods:</h3>
<ul>
<li>International commercial terms.</li>
<li>Buying transportation services.</li>
<li>Utilizing air transportation.</li>
<li>Utilizing ocean transportation.</li>
<li>Securing marine insurance.</li>
<li>Calculating total landed cost.</li>
<li>Strategic purchase planning.</li>
<li>Reengineering purchasing operations.</li>
</ul>">

21 - 25 Jul 2024

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International Trade & Shipping Training Course - (PR 4094)

Introduction:</h2>
Today’s organization deals with ever-increasing levels of complexity when trading globally. Sourcing suppliers and managing quality, cost, and delivery through the supply chain requires managers to continually sharpen and update their skills to provide measurable best value for their organization effectively. An international trade and shipping course can equip professionals with the necessary skills and knowledge to navigate the dynamic realm of global trade.
This specialized part of the global, international trade and shipping course will focus on the importance of shipping in international trade and how professionals can acquire an international shipping certification. Participants will explore the challenges and intricacies of international shipping logistics, including strategies to maximize efficiency and ensure regulatory compliance. This international shipping and trade course is pivotal for anyone involved in global shipping and trade.
Upon completing the International Trade & Shipping Training Course, participants will receive a certificate course in international trade, signifying their enhanced understanding and capabilities in the complex domain of global commerce.
<h2>Targeted Groups:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Procurement management.</li>
<li>Purchasing professionals.</li>
<li>Supply chain management.</li>
<li>Vendor relationship management.</li>
<li>Procurement professionals.</li>
<li>International trade professionals.</li>
<li>Transportation management.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives:</h2>
At the end of this international shipping and trade course, the participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Develop cost-effective international vendor sourcing strategies.</li>
<li>Develop an awareness of shipping options and cost structures.</li>
<li>Construct effective global supply chain management strategies.</li>
<li>Develop appropriate risk mitigation and marine insurance strategies.</li>
<li>Ensure vendor compliance with international standards and CSR.</li>
<li>Take away specific action plans to develop their role and organizational benefit further.</li>
<li>Understand the fundamental principles and tools for global supplier sourcing.</li>
<li>Learn about vendor auditing and compliance.</li>
<li>Recognize the shipping options, insurance, and incoterms.</li>
<li>Develop cost-efficient supply chain logistics.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies:</h2>
Upon the end of this international shipping and trade course, the target audience will be able to improve the ability:
<ul>
<li>International trade.</li>
<li>Foreign currency strategies.</li>
<li>Global industry standards.</li>
<li>Shipping management.</li>
<li>Supply chain and logistics.</li>
<li>Vendor sourcing strategies.</li>
<li>Customs handling.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content:</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: International Trade - Challenges and Opportunities</h3>
<ul>
<li>International trade – aligning strategy to organizational goals.</li>
<li>Overview of geographic opportunities by industry sector.</li>
<li>Common challenges faced by organizations trading internationally.</li>
<li>Vendor sourcing strategies.</li>
<li>Cross-cultural communication.</li>
<li>Foreign currency strategies (FX).</li>
<li>Managing global supply chains.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Vendor Sourcing & Management:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Constructing adequate specifications and vendor positioning statements.</li>
<li>Managing quality, cost, and delivery.</li>
<li>Incoterms.</li>
<li>Additional value creation from sourcing.</li>
<li>Geographic risk analysis - macro and micro levels.</li>
<li>Compliance with global industry standards.</li>
<li>Managing Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).</li>
<li>Vendor auditing strategies and toolkit.</li>
<li>Service level agreements (SLA).</li>
<li>International contractual and legal best practices.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Shipping and Logistics Management:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Overview of shipping cost drivers.</li>
<li>Shipping options and impacts - consolidation, part container.</li>
<li>Creating cost-effective and risk-mitigating shipping strategies.</li>
<li>Marine insurance.</li>
<li>Establishing organizational cover levels.</li>
<li>Premium cost drivers and premium reduction strategies.</li>
<li>Use of emerging technologies, tracking, monitoring, and security.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Customs/Port of Entry:</h3>
<ul>
<li>The role of customs.</li>
<li>Calculating import duty tariffs.</li>
<li>Establishing correct import duty tariffs.</li>
<li>Customs systems and processes.</li>
<li>Use of a bonded warehouse.</li>
<li>Duty deferment options.</li>
<li>Use of freight forwarding agents.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Finance and Documentation:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Establishing the organizational trade cycle.</li>
<li>Impacts of the trade cycle on cash flows.</li>
<li>Advanced financial strategies for international trade.</li>
<li>International supply chain document roadmap.</li>
<li>Global best practice.</li>
<li>Action planning.</li>
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Advanced Purchasing Management Training course - (PR 4096)

Introduction</h2>
Managing the purchasing department of the 21st Century is a challenging task. Today's global economy makes the purchasing function increasingly complicated. In this procurement management training course, we will explore managing the various suppliers located thousands of kilometers from your plant while achieving actual cost savings.
Furthermore, in the advanced purchasing management course, we will discover how the purchasing department fits into the overall function of the supply chain operation. Lastly, in the advanced purchasing management course, we will cover how the purchasing department should be appropriately managed to achieve all of its Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), which are critical for those seeking a certificate in procurement management.
<h2>Targeted Groups</h2>
<ul>
<li>Buyers.</li>
<li>Senior buyers.</li>
<li>The purchasing supervisors.</li>
<li>The purchasing managers.</li>
<li>Other personnel must understand the purchasing function, including those interested in the purchasing certification program or aiming to master procurement management.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives</h2>
At the end of this course in procurement management, participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Define the strategic role of the purchasing department.</li>
<li>Perform accurate supplier evaluation.</li>
<li>Develop effective negotiation strategies with all suppliers.</li>
<li>Explain the importance of value analysis in purchasing.</li>
<li>Evaluate the department's performance using proper Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).</li>
<li>Improve the efficiency of the purchasing department, guiding them towards becoming certified purchasing management professionals.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies</h2>
At the end of this advanced purchasing management course, the participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Strategic purchasing operations.</li>
<li>Item value analysis.</li>
<li>Departmental management.</li>
<li>Negotiation.</li>
<li>Purchasing ethics.</li>
<li>Supplier evaluation.</li>
<li>Purchasing and logistics management.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: The Strategic Function of Purchasing</h3>
<ul>
<li>What is The link between the purchasing function and organizational strategy management?</li>
<li>Create a purchasing mission statement.</li>
<li>How do you match the purchasing mission with the company's mission?</li>
<li>How do you write for department objectives?</li>
<li>What is the balance of quality, service, and price in purchasing and logistics management?</li>
<li>Things purchasing should strive for.</li>
<li>Type O purchasing manager.</li>
<li>Type S purchasing manager.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Supplier Evaluation and Negotiation</h3>
<ul>
<li>What is negotiating with suppliers?</li>
<li>Power in negotiation.</li>
<li>Plan for negotiation.</li>
<li>The 13 powers of negotiation.</li>
<li>How do you achieve the proper agreements with suppliers?</li>
<li>Factors used to evaluate suppliers on total performance.</li>
<li>What are The ways of promoting good supplier relations?</li>
<li>How do you create suppliers as good partners?</li>
<li>How do you choose suitable suppliers?</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Value Analysis</h3>
<ul>
<li>What are the 16 vital strategic questions to ask?</li>
<li>How to Apply the 16 strategic questions?</li>
<li>How will these 16 questions reduce the total cost?</li>
<li>Optimize purchasing productivity.</li>
<li>Add value as a purchasing manager.</li>
<li>The 21st-century purchasing manager.</li>
<li>What is The difference between pushing papers and strategic thinking?</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Managing and Evaluating Department Performance</h3>
<ul>
<li>Centralization versus decentralization.</li>
<li>Reasons for departmental performance appraisal.</li>
<li>Manage other buyers.</li>
<li>Management by objectives.</li>
<li>Continuous development for the buyers.</li>
<li>Key performance indicators for purchasing.</li>
<li>Choose the right KPIs for purchasing.</li>
<li>What is the correct number of departmental KPIs?</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Improving Purchasing Efficiency</h3>
<ul>
<li>Evaluate service to end-users.</li>
<li>Conduct the proper surveys.</li>
<li>Communicating better with end-users</li>
<li>Ethical behavior with suppliers.</li>
<li>Ethical behavior with end-users.</li>
<li>Ethical behavior within the department.</li>
<li>Purchase policies and procedures.</li>
<li>Train the staff.</li>
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Big Data Analytics for Supply Chain Optimization Course - (PR 4106)

Introduction:</h2>
This highly interactive and extensive big data analytics certification course will provide in-depth knowledge on tackling the complexities in modern supply chains and prepare professionals to face future challenges. The big data analytics for supply chain optimization course will be invaluable for individuals involved in supply chain and logistics.
The big data analytics for supply chain optimization training will equip them with the skills and techniques to predict market requirements while implementing strategies to optimize their activities, reduce costs, and enhance service provision.
Participants in the big data analytics for supply chain optimization course will learn state-of-the-art extensive data analytics methods for supply chain optimization, enabling them to decrease lead times, cut operational costs, and seamlessly transition into Industry 4.0.
Supply chain optimization is restructuring the supply and demand chain by utilizing big data analytics to improve efficiency and effectiveness. The core aim of a supply chain optimization course is to provide an in-depth understanding of how to analyze vast amounts of data, glean actionable insights, and apply optimization techniques to streamline supply chain processes.
Participants will explore various optimization strategies tailored to enhance each component of the supply chain, from forecasting and inventory management to logistics and distribution. With the primary focus on optimizing the supply chain, this unit promises to offer key competencies for fostering a data-driven culture within supply chain management.
<h2>Benefits of Taking this Big Data Analytics Course:</h2>
The subsection on the benefits of the data analytics course outlines the value professionals will gain by participating in this Big Data Analytics Training. Namely, it will significantly enhance the participant's capacity to leverage Big Data for informed decision-making and supply chain innovation. It promises a deepened understanding of current trends and hands-on experience with tools and approaches necessary for optimizing supply chain processes.
The certification achieved through this comprehensive Big Data analytics certification course is a testament to the participants' commitment to excellence and readiness for the evolving world of Industry 4.0.
<h2>Targeted Groups:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Business improvement specialists.</li>
<li>Industry 4.0 pioneers and practitioners.</li>
<li>Supply chain managers.</li>
<li>Operation managers.</li>
<li>Project managers.</li>
<li>Finance managers.</li>
<li>IT managers.</li>
<li>Consultants. </li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives:</h2>
Upon completing this big data and analytics course, participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Utilize big data analysis tools and techniques to discern patterns in supply chain behaviors.</li>
<li>Construct virtual models of supply chains and select among alternatives to maximize profits.</li>
<li>Identify significant big data sources in their supply chain and logistics and optimize their utilization.</li>
<li>Analyze customer behavior patterns and anticipate potential shifts.</li>
<li>Strategically plan improvements in their supply chain using existing facilities and workforce.</li>
<li>Prepare for integrating supply chain 4.0 as an essential component of Industry 4.0. </li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Identification of significant big data sources within their supply chain.</li>
<li>Interoperability with other supply chains.</li>
<li>Dynamic simulation using significant big data analytics results and performing real-time cost/benefit analyses.</li>
<li>Conducting swift short-term forecasting for immediate decision-making.</li>
<li>Transitioning complex decision-making processes to artificial intelligence platforms.</li>
<li>Empowering personnel to make long-term strategic decisions while technology manages short-term operations. </li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content:</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Industry 4.0 and Its Impact on Supply Chain:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Introduction to Industry 4.0.</li>
<li>Industry 4.0 drivers and impacts.</li>
<li>Supply chain and logistics within Industry 4.0.</li>
<li>Envisioning supply chain 4.0 and the future of logistics.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Big Data in Supply Chain and Logistics:</h3>
<ul>
<li>The big data 5 V's in supply chain and logistics are:</li>
<ul>
<li class="ql-indent-1">Volume.</li>
<li class="ql-indent-1">Velocity.</li>
<li class="ql-indent-1">Variety.</li>
<li class="ql-indent-1">Value.</li>
<li class="ql-indent-1">Variability.</li>
<li class="ql-indent-1">Veracity.</li>
</ul>
<li>Discovering sources of big data within supply chain and logistics.</li>
<li>Approach for data-driven supply chain optimization (highlighting k-means, Apriori, Aykin, and Babu algorithms).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Supply Chain Optimization:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Framework oriented on customer requirements.</li>
<li>Optimizing the sales operations.</li>
<li>Optimization of distribution.</li>
<li>Optimization of inventory management. </li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Optimization of Manufacturing Process:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Strategies for optimizing product design and fostering innovation.</li>
<li>Streamlining the production process through enhanced extensive big data analysis.</li>
<li>Leveraging big data analytics for improving logistics activities.</li>
<li>Employing advanced models as foundations for future predictive models.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Integration of Modern Software with Existing ERP Software:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Overview of the anyLogic cloud capabilities.</li>
<li>Ensuring seamless interoperability between anyLogic and existing ERP software platforms.</li>
<li>Integration of RFID and vehicle tracking systems for efficient connectivity.</li>
<li>Techniques for expedited data extrapolation to ensure swiffer analysis and computation.</li>
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Oracle Inventory Management Fundamentals Training Course - (PR 4107)

Introduction:</h2>
This inventory management training teaches you the fundamentals to implement Oracle inventory. Learn to define organization parameters, define items and units of measure, perform inventory transactions, and perform implementation activities.
This Oracle inventory management fundamentals course is designed for professionals seeking expertise in Oracle inventory management, offering a certificate in inventory and management at the culmination of the training.
Throughout the inventory management certificate course, participants will discover the fundamentals of inventory management, focusing on Oracle inventory. The curriculum is ideal for those looking for an inventory management training course or an inventory management certification.
Upon completing the Oracle inventory management fundamentals course, participants will receive a certificate validating their proficiency in inventory management, underscoring their readiness to contribute strategically to inventory management teams and decision-making processes.
<h2>Targeted Groups:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Procurement professionals.</li>
<li>Inventory managers.</li>
<li>Inventory professionals.</li>
<li>Logistic professionals.</li>
<li>Oracle administrators.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives:</h2>
At the end of this Oracle inventory management fundamentals course, participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Set up organizations that correspond to your business units in Oracle applications.</li>
<li>Define inventory items for Oracle supply chain applications.</li>
<li>Perform inventory replenishment.</li>
<li>Perform ABC classification and cycle count.</li>
<li>Define items and enable lot control and serial control.</li>
<li>Perform inventory transactions.</li>
<li>Use mobile devices to perform inventory transactions.</li>
<li>Enable dual unit of measure control.</li>
<li>Understand how to perform inventory transactions using a mobile device.</li>
<li>Understand how to define material statuses.</li>
<li>Understand how to define and maintain a cycle count.</li>
<li>Create an ABC ranking of items to be used in cycle counting.</li>
<li>Understand the overall inventory process in Oracle inventory.</li>
<li>Understand how to view on-hand quantities.</li>
<li>Understand the structure of an inventory organization in Oracle Inventory.</li>
<li>Understand the planning and replenishment methods available in Oracle inventory, including min-max planning, reorder-point planning, replenishment counting, and Kanban replenishment.</li>
<li>Understand the role of an item-master organization.</li>
<li>Define items in the Oracle inventory.</li>
<li>Understand the concept of move orders.</li>
<li>Learn to implement locator, revision, serial, and item lot control.</li>
<li>Perform inventory transactions such as sub-inventory transfer and inter-organization transfer.</li>
<li>Set up shipping networks between inventory organizations and understand the significance of direct and in-transit shipments.</li>
<li>Understand how to create units of measure.</li>
<li>Understand how to make reservations.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies</h2>
Upon the end of this Oracle inventory management fundamentals course, the target audience will be able to improve the following:
<ul>
<li>Inventory management skills with Oracle inventory.</li>
<li>Plan and inventory management certification knowledge.</li>
<li>Understand proficiency in using Oracle to achieve MBA-level inventory management competencies.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content:</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Overview of Oracle Inventory:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Receive inventory.</li>
<li>Transfer inventory.</li>
<li>On-hand and availability.</li>
<li>Issue inventory.</li>
<li>Inventory accuracy.</li>
<li>Discuss inventory application integration.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Defining Inventory Organizations:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Overview of inventory structure.</li>
<li>Set up the inventory organization structure.</li>
<li>Definite organization parameters.</li>
<li>Define sub-inventories and locators.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Units of Measure:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Define units of measure. </li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Defining and Maintaining Items of Oracle Inventory:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Definite items process.</li>
<li>Use item templates.</li>
<li>Assign items to organizations.</li>
<li>What are the categories, category sets, and catalogs?</li>
<li>Delete items.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Lot and Serial Control: </h3>
<ul>
<li>Set up lot control.</li>
<li>Maintain serial information.</li>
<li>Maintain lot and serial genealogy.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 6: Transaction Setup: </h3>
<ul>
<li>Define transaction types.</li>
<li>Define picking rules.</li>
<li>Define account aliases.</li>
<li>Opening and closing accounting periods.</li>
<li>Set up move orders.</li>
<li>Material shortage alerts and notifications.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 7: Issuing and Transferring Material: </h3>
<ul>
<li>Managing receipts.</li>
<li>Perform transactions.</li>
<li>Perform move orders.</li>
<li>Perform mobile transactions.</li>
<li>Managing shipments.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 8: On-Hand and Availability:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Use the material workbench.</li>
<li>Create available-to-promise rules.</li>
<li>Managing reservations.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 9: Inventory Replenishment:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Define replenishment.</li>
<li>Inventory forecasting methods.</li>
<li>Replenishment counting.</li>
<li>Kanban.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 10: Inventory Accuracy Fundamentals:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Define counting.</li>
<li>ABC analysis.</li>
<li>Cycle counting.</li>
<li>Physical inventory.</li>
</ul>">

6300 Euro

22 Jul - 02 Aug 2024

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The Latest Methods of Processing Logistics and Inventory Control - (PR 4108)

Introduction</h2>
Inventory and logistics control are crucial in the operations of a modern business, as inventory represents a significant asset. However, inventory carrying is not risk-free, subsequently influencing the total cost of inventory ownership. For instance, when items are held in a warehouse, there is an inherent risk of these items losing value over time.
If a firm stores parts for work centers or machinery, these parts might depreciate compared to the original purchasing price. Losses due to excess, obsolescence, or inventory mismanagement directly erode company equity.
<h2>Enhancing Inventory Control with Best Practices</h2>
Integrating best practices with a thorough understanding of inventory control techniques is paramount to advancing inventory control. This inventory control and logistics management course includes hands-on inventory control training and participating in inventory management tailored explicitly for logistics inventory management.
The frameworks and concepts discussed throughout this inventory control and logistics management course lay the foundation for these best practices, capturing the essence of navigating the complexities of inventory logistics.
Participants in the inventory control and logistics management course who aim to achieve expertise in this area are encouraged to pursue further education, such as a master's in inventory management, to deepen their grasp of process inventory management.
This inventory control and logistics management course also addresses inventory control principles at a level suitable for training, emphasizing inventory processing and the overall inventory process, ensuring a comprehensive learning experience.
<h2>Targeted Groups</h2>
<ul>
<li>Inventory managers.</li>
<li>Warehousing managers.</li>
<li>Supply chain managers</li>
<li>Logistics managers.</li>
<li>Supply chain analysts.</li>
<li>This inventory control and logistics management course is for non-inventory people who must know stock control operations' issues and key drivers.</li>
<li>Professional in inventory, stock, supply chain, logistics, warehouse, and distribution.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives</h2>
At the end of this inventory control and logistics management course, the participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Improve management of inventories, reaching from receiving products to storage and delivering.</li>
<li>See that movement to the end-user adds value.</li>
<li>Manage the inventory and supply chain and help you reduce costs.</li>
<li>Improve customer satisfaction and increase safety and productivity.</li>
<li>Look "outside of the box".</li>
<li>Understand the appropriate Inventory methods to be applied.</li>
<li>Establish more accurate forecast demands and maximize the degree of service by reducing your inventory with a time-conscious and integrated inventory management process.</li>
<li>Understand the principles, the concepts, and the techniques involved.</li>
<li>Apply these in a financially beneficial way to their companies' balance sheets.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies</h2>
By the end of this inventory control and logistics management course, the target competencies will be able to develop the following:
<ul>
<li>Warehouse operations.</li>
<li>Planning and logistics work processes.</li>
<li>Assessment and planning for requirements.</li>
<li>Record accuracy.</li>
<li>Warehouse auditing.</li>
<li>Demand planning.</li>
<li>Procurement.</li>
<li>Warehouse management.</li>
<li>Logistics management.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Introduction to Total Supply Chain Management</h3>
<ul>
<li>What are the supply objectives (the six "rights")?</li>
<li>Understand functions and responsibilities within the supply chain.</li>
<li>Inventory accounting.</li>
<li>Inter-functional cooperation.</li>
<li>Impact of functions and sub-functions on total cost.</li>
<li>Communication.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: The Fundamentals of Stock Control</h3>
<ul>
<li>Factors affecting stock control.</li>
<li>The nature of demand.</li>
<li>The pattern of demand.</li>
<li>The predictability of demand.</li>
<li>Stock levels and stock-outs.</li>
<li>Warehousing support.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Differential Stock Control</h3>
<ul>
<li>Apply Pareto analysis to inventory management.</li>
<li>ABC categorization. </li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Stocktaking & Stock Checks</h3>
<ul>
<li>Types of stock-take.</li>
<li>Stock record updating.</li>
<li>Discrepancy investigation checklist.</li>
<li>Principles of stocktaking.</li>
<li>Conduct a count.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Classification and Coding</h3>
<ul>
<li>Categorization of materials and supplies.</li>
<li>Methods of coding.</li>
<li>Digital significance coding system development.</li>
<li>Stores catalog maintenance.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 6: Provisioning and Forecasting Demand</h3>
<ul>
<li>The stockholding conflict.</li>
<li>Provisioning.</li>
<li>Range and depth of stockholding.</li>
<li>Calculate the requirement.</li>
<li>Economic order quantity.</li>
<li>Operational costs.</li>
<li>Forecast the requirement. </li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 7: Determining Safety Stock Levels</h3>
<ul>
<li>Apply differential stock control.</li>
<li>Set safety stock levels.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 8: Key Components to Understanding Effective Inventory Control</h3>
<ul>
<li>End-user demand analysis.</li>
<li>Forecasting for operations and maintenance.</li>
<li>Understand supply lead time.</li>
<li>Cost and benefits analysis.</li>
<li>Develop inventory policies.</li>
<li>Understand the need for inventory in organizations.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 9: Understanding Inventory Strategies</h3>
<ul>
<li>Creating inventory policy</li>
<li>Understand Incoterms and the supply chain rules.</li>
<li>Understanding Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) and Co-Managed Inventory (CMI).</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 10: Inventory Improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li>Use the supply chain.</li>
<li>Apply the theory of constraints.</li>
<li>Practical inventory improvements.</li>
<li>Keys to reducing stock levels.</li>
<li>Model for planning inventory.</li>
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Management of Strategic and Effective Supply Chain Operations - (PR 4111)

Introduction</h2>
Procurement is a word used in the field of industry, trade, and services, which gives this process particular importance; a function is responsible for the great responsibility of the organization to provide materials and tasks for use in the facility, whether in production or operation.
This strategic supply chain management operations and strategies course, ensuring effective planning, policy-making, and decision-making, is a brief attempt to clarify the prerequisites for achieving quality and excellence in operations associated with supply and storage functions. This supply chain management course integrates key concepts to illuminate the strategic role of supply chain management in enhancing organizational performance and achieving a competitive advantage.
Explore the supply chain management strategies and understand why strategic supply chain management is a compelling competitive advantage. This strategic supply chain management operations and strategies course provides the general framework for strategic management, focusing on five advanced controls for optimal supply chain performance and how to achieve and measure growth through developing a supply chain strategy.
<h2>Applying Supply Chain Management Strategies</h2>
Delve into supply chain management strategies, where participants explore the intricate details of creating and implementing strategies that align with organizational goals. This strategic supply chain management operations and strategies course will provide insight into what a supply chain strategy is, what is in supply chain management, and how strategy supply chain management plays an essential role in building resilient and efficient supply networks.
<h2>Targeted Groups</h2>
<ul>
<li>Procurement professionals.</li>
<li>Supply chain management.</li>
<li>Supply chain professionals.</li>
<li>Logistics professionals.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives</h2>
At the end of this strategic supply chain management operations and strategies course, the participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Provide participants with inventory control skills.</li>
<li>Providing participants with the skills of logistics management according to ISO standards.</li>
<li>Distinguished management practice to improve warehouses and control methods.</li>
<li>Identify the modern techniques in supply chains and distribution systems.</li>
<li>Providing modern skills to warehouse workers.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies</h2>
Upon the end of this strategic supply chain management operations and strategies course, the target competencies will be able to evolve the ability to:
<ul>
<li>Supply chain management.</li>
<li>Logistics.</li>
<li>Forecasting and materials planning.</li>
<li>Transportation.</li>
<li>Warehousing.</li>
<li>Reverse logistics.</li>
<li>Sustainable operations.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Contents</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Modern Techniques for Supply Chain Management</h3>
<ul>
<li>Supply chain development.</li>
<li>Supply chain, value chain, and demand chain.</li>
<li>Electronic supply chain management tools.</li>
<li>Modern conditions of excellence for supply chain management.</li>
<li>Elements of supply chain management.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Establish Strategic Management of Effective Supply Chains</h3>
<ul>
<li>Why do we need supply chain management?</li>
<li>General framework for strategic management.</li>
<li>Five advanced controls for optimal supply chain performance.</li>
<li>Effective supply chain strategies as a competitive advantage.</li>
<li>Achieve and measure growth through effective supply chains.</li>
<li>Adopt the PACE method for developing supply chain operations.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Warehouse and Supply Chain Management System</h3>
<ul>
<li>The benefits of applying the logistic system.</li>
<li>Determine the standards and techniques needed to implement the advanced logistics system.</li>
<li>Specialized linkage of automated warehouse units.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Strategic Supply Management and Quality in Operations</h3>
<ul>
<li>Scheduling and coordination in supply management.</li>
<li>Strategic decisions for operations and logistics.</li>
<li>Prerequisites for the application of total quality in operations and logistics.</li>
<li>Standard specifications for quality systems.</li>
<li>Expected benefits from the application of the total quality systems.</li>
<li>Standard financial ratios for supply operations according to quality standards.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Approved Certificate of Excellence in Supply Research</h3>
<ul>
<li>Quality Requirements for Logistics Management.</li>
<li>Methods of measuring the efficiency and effectiveness of supply management.</li>
<li>Excellence model for supply management.</li>
<li>Nine Standards of Excellence in Supply Management and Operations.</li>
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Advanced Procurement Strategies, Warehousing, and Logistics Management - (PR 4115)

Introduction</h2>
Procurement and storage functions are critical in maintaining cost efficiency and operational regularity in institutional settings. This advanced procurement and warehouse management program aims to boost the efficiency and effectiveness of managers and workers in procurement and storage departments.
This advanced procurement and warehouse management course is designed to delve into the intricate relationship between procurement, warehousing, and logistics management, emphasizing how these areas work collectively to minimize costs and maintain smooth and consistent organizational operations.
The advanced procurement and warehouse management course aims to enhance the proficiency and performance of managers and employees engaged in procurement and warehousing departments, aligning them with the best warehousing strategies in logistics.
Participants will gain insights into traditional and innovative warehousing strategies, enhancing their skills through a mix of theoretical knowledge and practical applications. The advanced procurement and warehouse management course content is tailored to cater to professionals seeking comprehensive warehouse management training, intending to achieve certifications in warehouse management, and enhancing their understanding of warehousing procurement.
Through this advanced procurement and warehouse management course, participants will understand the meaning and applications of warehousing management, utilizing organized procurement and warehousing methodologies to achieve operational excellence in logistics and warehouse management.
<h2>Targeted Groups</h2>
<ul>
<li>Procurement professionals.</li>
<li>Logistics professionals.</li>
<li>Supply chain professionals.</li>
<li>Warehouse and inventory managers.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives</h2>
By the end of this advanced procurement and warehouse management program, participants will:
<ul>
<li>Enhance strategic decision-making capabilities in logistics management.</li>
<li>Support the accurate functioning and compliance with governing legislation.</li>
<li>Understand procurement concepts related to both local and international contracts.</li>
<li>Acquire knowledge of clearance, shipping, and insurance of goods.</li>
<li>Execute strategic procurement planning, engaging in supplier negotiations to reduce supply and operational costs.</li>
<li>Implement effective warehouse management and control to ensure business continuity and minimal inventory investment.</li>
<li>Manage stock disposal efficiently to optimize organizational liquidity.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies</h2>
By the end of this advanced procurement and warehouse management program, the target competencies will be able to evolve:
<ul>
<li>Supply chain management.</li>
<li>Enhancing customer value.</li>
<li>Warehouse design.</li>
<li>Warehouse operation.</li>
<li>Inventory management.</li>
<li>Transportation management.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Basic Concepts in Purchasing and Storage</h3>
<ul>
<li>The role of procurement and storage in organizational planning.</li>
<li>Cost impact of procurement and storage on organizational revenue.</li>
<li>Policies regarding purchase and storage.</li>
<li>Centralized vs. decentralized procurement and storage.</li>
<li>Responsibilities of procurement and warehouse personnel.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Purchase, Planning, and Organizing The Stores</h3>
<ul>
<li>Identifying supply sources.</li>
<li>Supplier selection criteria.</li>
<li>Internal organization of warehouses.</li>
<li>Types of warehouses: wholesale and distribution.</li>
<li>Inventory ordering methods.</li>
<li>Item location strategies.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Methods and Procedures of Purchase and Storage</h3>
<ul>
<li>Types of procurement methods (public and limited tender, practice, and direct order).</li>
<li>Regulation of procurement methods.</li>
<li>Procedures and forms used in procurement and storage.</li>
<li>Inventory control and evaluation of procurement work.</li>
<li>Inventory control methods.</li>
<li>Stock control reports.</li>
<li>Stock control indicators.</li>
<li>Method of assessment and follow-up of procurement.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Storage and Purchase Problems and Methods to Solve</h3>
<ul>
<li>Identifying idle stock and remediation methods.</li>
<li>Managing administrative and organizational issues impacting procurement and storage.</li>
<li>Security measures for inventory protection.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Logistics Management</h3>
<ul>
<li>The role of the company's logistics, international trade, and customer service.</li>
<li>Logistics from a global perspective.</li>
<li>Logistics in the procurement procedure.</li>
<li>The role of logistics in inventory management and technological information.</li>
<li>The importance of logistics in controlling production and avoiding risks.</li>
<li>Payment mechanisms in international trade "documentary collections."</li>
<li>Mechanisms of performance assurance in global trade "letters of guarantee/letter of credit guarantee."</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 6: Conditions of International Sales</h3>
<ul>
<li>A general idea of the Incoterms and the American synonym.</li>
<li>Elements and components of ICC Bulletin No. 560 of 1999 (Incoterms 2000).</li>
<li>Definition of international trade terms.</li>
<li>Four group review.</li>
<li>Review of thirteen items.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 7: Commercial and Legal Documents From the Perspective of The Sales Contract</h3>
<ul>
<li>Details on preliminary invoices and their essential elements.</li>
<li>Legal aspects of the export contract.</li>
<li>Ensuring the correct terms in contracts.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 8: Export Documents From The Perspective of The International Customs Regulation for Documentary Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Commercial and consular invoice.</li>
<li>Detection of contents and weights.</li>
<li>Certificate of Origin.</li>
<li>Documents authenticated by the country's imported consulates.</li>
<li>Pre-shipment inspection documents.</li>
<li>Transport and insurance documents.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 9: Shipping Methods</h3>
<ul>
<li>Mixed shipping.</li>
<li>Shipping within containers.</li>
<li>Cargo shipping.</li>
<li>Shipping by chartered ships.</li>
<li>Shipping by rolling ships.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 10: Transportation</h3>
<ul>
<li>Various types of sea vessels.</li>
<li>Airfreight logistics.</li>
<li>Overland transportation modalities.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 11: Clearance & Shipping Procedures</h3>
<ul>
<li>The legal framework governing clearance and shipping.</li>
<li>Detailed clearance and shipping protocols.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 12: Export Insurance Procedures</h3>
<ul>
<li>The importance of export insurance for capital preservation.</li>
<li>Different types of goods insurance according to London insurance market conditions.</li>
</ul>">

6300 Euro

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Managing Supply Operations, Strategic Supplies, and Efficient Export Chains Workshop - (PR 4117)

Introduction:</h2>
Procurement, a term synonymous with industry, commerce, and service sectors, carries significant weight due to its critical role within an organization. The procurement responsibility extends beyond merely executing the purchasing process. It encompasses effective planning, policy-making, and decision-making.
This strategic supply chain and operations management program provides a succinct overview of the essential requirements for achieving quality and excellence in supply and warehousing functions.
Upon completing this strategic supply chain and operations management workshop, participants will have the knowledge and expertise to pursue an export chain certificate, validating their understanding and strategic skill set in managing intricate export processes and enhancing their supply chain efficiency.
This strategic supply chain and operations management workshop is an advanced learning experience and an operations and supply chain management course that moves toward certification. Participants are prepared for a supply chain management course and positioned to advance their careers with an operations and supply chain management certificate.
<h3>Strategic Supply Chain Management in Operations:</h3>
Understanding the strategic aspects of supply chain management is pivotal in operations management. Supply chain management strategies streamline processes and serve as a cornerstone for sustainable business growth. Participants will learn what operations entail in supply chain management and why this integration is paramount for organizational success.
Operations management sustainability and supply chain management are intertwined to promote eco-friendly and cost-efficient practices. This strategic supply chain and operations management course examines the strategies of supply chain management that drive sustainability. It delves into why supply chain management is essential in operations management and how organizations can implement sustainable methods effectively.
<h2>Targeted Groups:</h2>
This strategic supply chain and operations management course is tailored for logistics professionals across all organizational levels. Furthermore, it is an excellent opportunity for individuals looking to enhance their supply chain and logistics knowledge with contemporary theoretical insights, equipping them for advanced roles within their organizations.
<h2>Workshop Objectives:</h2>
By the end of this strategic supply chain and operations management workshop, participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Maximize their inventory control skills.</li>
<li>Enhance their logistical management aptitude in line with ISO standards.</li>
<li>Adopt outstanding administrative practices for improved warehouse management and control.</li>
<li>Explore modern methodologies in supply and distribution chains.</li>
<li>Acquire a comprehensive skill set essential for warehouse personnel.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Supply chain management.</li>
<li>Quality management.</li>
<li>Warehouse design.</li>
<li>Warehouse operation.</li>
<li>Inventory management.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Workshop Content:</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Modern Techniques of Supply Chain Management:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Development of the Supply Chain.</li>
<li>Distinguishing between Supply Chain, Value Chain, and Order Chain.</li>
<li>Tools for electronic supply chain management.</li>
<li>Criteria for modern excellence in supply chain management.</li>
<li>Fundamental components of supply chain management.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Establishing Strategic Management for Effective Supply Chains:</h3>
<ul>
<li>The imperative of managing supply chains.</li>
<li>The core framework for strategic management.</li>
<li>Five pivotal controls for maximizing supply chain performance.</li>
<li>Harnessing effective supply chain strategies as a competitive edge.</li>
<li>Driving and measuring growth via efficient supply chains.</li>
<li>Implementing the PACE method to enhance supply chain operations.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Warehouse and Supply Chain Management System:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Advantages of adopting a logistic system.</li>
<li>Identifying the required standards and technology for an evolving logistics system.</li>
<li>Integrative automation of warehouse units.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Strategic Supply and Quality Management in Operating Operations:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Coordination and scheduling within supply management.</li>
<li>Essential strategic decisions in operations and supply.</li>
<li>Principal requirements for applying total quality to operations and supply.</li>
<li>International Quality System standards.</li>
<li>Anticipated benefits derived from implementing comprehensive quality systems.</li>
<li>Key financial ratios for supply operations under quality standards.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Certificate of Excellence Approved for Supply and Supply Research:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Quality prerequisites for managing supply and logistics.</li>
<li>Methods for assessing the efficiency and effectiveness of supply management.</li>
<li>Excellence models for managing supply and logistics.</li>
<li>The nine standards of excellence in supply management and operations.</li>
</ul>">

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E-Procurement Implementation & Management Training Course - (PR 9431)

Introduction:</h2>
E-procurement is the method businesses use to procure and sell goods and services across the Internet. This Internet method is becoming more frequent as companies find that e-procurement facilitates the process and allows them to make significant cost savings.
This comprehensive E-procurement management and implementation training course focuses on developing and managing e-procurement in an organization. It leads to the management of the complete procurement process.
This E-procurement management and implementation course aims to teach how to establish an e-procurement system within an organization that needs to purchase and sell through the Internet. It discusses in depth the various stages of implementing the process.
The E-procurement implementation and management training course is a specialized program designed to equip professionals with the skills and knowledge to successfully implement and manage e-procurement systems within their organizations.
<h2>Advantages of E-Procurement in Supply Chain Management:</h2>
E-procurement enhances supply chain management by offering immense advantages such as reducing procurement costs, streamlining procurement processes, increasing efficiency, and fostering transparent spending.
This E-procurement management and implementation training course provides insights into the strategic role of e-procurement in supply chain management and how it contributes to organizational competitiveness and efficiency.
<h2>Challenges of Implementing E-Procurement in an Organization:</h2>
Organizations embarking on e-procurement implementation might encounter several challenges, including technical integration, change management, user adoption, and meeting legal and regulatory requirements.
This E-procurement management and implementation program delves into these challenges. It equips e-procurement managers and stakeholders with the methods and tools necessary to overcome hurdles and ensure successful e-procurement implementation.
<h2>Targeted Groups:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Professionals in Purchasing, Procurement, and Supply Management Operations and Finance.</li>
<li>All those interested in the development and implementation of an e-procurement system.</li>
<li>Organizations whose leadership wants high levels of competency in contract and purchasing activities have those involved in planning, evaluating, preparing, and managing tenders, awards, contracts, and purchases covering acquiring materials, equipment, and services.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives:</h2>
By the end of this E-procurement management and implementation course, participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Learn the principles of e-procurement.</li>
<li>Understand the requirements needed to develop an e-procurement system.</li>
<li>Understand how to implement an e-procurement system.</li>
<li>Learn how to manage an e-procurement system.</li>
<li>Develop strategic purchasing plans.</li>
<li>Discuss how to improve internal customer service.</li>
<li>Explore many ways of reporting key performance indicators (KPI)</li>
<li>See how to apply past supplier performance for better selection.</li>
<li>Appreciate the principles of negotiation.</li>
<li>Be presented with the most critical competencies for purchasing personnel.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies:</h2>
Upon the end of this E-procurement management and implementation certification, target competencies will:
<ul>
<li>Procurement innovation and creativity.</li>
<li>Negotiation planning.</li>
<li>E-Procurement.</li>
<li>Training buyers.</li>
<li>Write procurement KPIs.</li>
<li>Organizational Improvement.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content:</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Traditional Procurement Procedures:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Procurement in the organization.</li>
<li>Strategic sourcing.</li>
<li>Supplier evaluation and performance.</li>
<li>Apply performance to procurement decisions.</li>
<li>What is e-procurement?</li>
<li>Understand the prerequisites for developing an e-procurement system.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: E-Procurement Development:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Learn about the steps in developing an e-procurement system.</li>
<li>The capabilities of e-procurement.</li>
<li>Develop an e-procurement internal customer ordering and approvals system.</li>
<li>Know how to develop an e-quotation preparations system.</li>
<li>Learn to develop an e-quotation evaluation system.</li>
<li>Develop an e-purchase order system.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: E-Procurement Models and Negotiation:</h3>
<ul>
<li>E-procurement business models.</li>
<li>Avoid confrontational negotiating.</li>
<li>New techniques for influencing.</li>
<li>Understand the other negotiator’s power.</li>
<li>Negotiate pressure points and countermeasures.</li>
<li>Negotiation exercises.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: E-Procurement Management:</h3>
<ul>
<li>E-procurement workflows.</li>
<li>E-procurement processes.</li>
<li>Manage an e-procurement system.</li>
<li>E-procurement hardware and software.</li>
<li>E-procurement user administration.</li>
<li>What is e-procurement management?</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Organizational Improvement through E-Procurement:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Integrate e-procurement systems into the business process.</li>
<li>Integration issues.</li>
<li>Understand e-procurement and contract law.</li>
<li>Learn about contracts and electronic signatures.</li>
<li>Know contract formation and e-trading.</li>
<li>Make changes in the organization.</li>
</ul>">

Manama (Bahrain)

07 - 11 Jul 2024

3900 Euro

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Strategic Purchasing Management Best Practices Course - (PR 9438)

Introduction:</h2>
This complete strategic purchasing management best practices training course covers the skills required to lead a procurement team to world-class performance. It focuses on the typical “gaps” in performance that must be filled for Purchasing Management to provide the continuous improvements needed for organizations to meet their strategic objectives.
Further, this strategic purchasing management best practices training course encourages everyone to be proactive rather than reactive in procurement activities and how to work on the “right” things that display Purchasing’s creativity, flexibility, and supply market knowledge.
This strategic purchasing management best practices course establishes how to provide and measure purchasing contributions to the organization, elevating this critical function to a core organizational competency.
<h2>Targeted Groups:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Procurement and Contracts personnel.</li>
<li>Purchasing, Contract Administration, Projects personnel.</li>
<li>Engineering, Facilities, Finance, and Maintenance Personnel.</li>
<li>Personnel involved in the planning and management of the tender process.</li>
<li>Leaders in the acquisition of materials, equipment, and services.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives:</h2>
At the end of this strategic purchasing management best practices course, the participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Learn how to develop high-performance purchasing organizations.</li>
<li>Develop strategic purchasing plans and discuss how to improve internal customer service.</li>
<li>Appreciate and see the analytics that guide procurement strategies.</li>
<li>Explore many ways of reporting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).</li>
<li>Understand the most critical competencies for purchasing personnel.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies:</h2>
At the end of this strategic purchasing management best practices training, the target audience will be able to:
<ul>
<li>The skills and attributes of world-class Purchasing Personnel.</li>
<li>Measuring leading performance.</li>
<li>Selection and application of management strategies.</li>
<li>Understanding the changing International Best Practices.</li>
<li>Managing suppliers to obtain best-in-class results.</li>
</ul>
<h2>What is the Strategic Purchasing Management Best Practices Course?</h2>
Understanding the strategic purchasing management best practices course involves delving into the intricacies of the purchasing management process. This comprehensive program explores the fundamentals of purchasing management, offering insights into its definition, functions, and objectives.
The course emphasizes the importance of strategic purchasing management and highlights the various types and principles essential for effective implementation. Participants gain exposure to various purchasing management tools and systems designed to streamline processes and enhance efficiency.
Through this strategic purchasing management best practices certification program, professionals acquire specialized knowledge and skills crucial for navigating the dynamic procurement landscape. The course elucidates why purchasing management is vital for organizations, elucidating its role in cost optimization, supply chain resilience, and strategic decision-making.
Participants in this strategic purchasing management best practices training learn to leverage purchasing management as a strategic asset by introducing strategic approaches and solutions, driving organizational success and competitiveness.
<h2>Course Content:</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: The 1st Steps to Becoming World Class:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Stages to World-Class Purchasing.</li>
<li>How Purchasing is viewed today.</li>
<li>Strategic Sourcing.</li>
<li>Developing Spend Profiles and the ABC Analysis.</li>
<li>New Job Descriptions for Purchasing of the Future.</li>
<li>Purchasing Personnel Required Skill Sets.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Evaluating Your Operation:</h3>
<ul>
<li>What are the Best Practices?</li>
<li>Purchasing Gap Analysis.</li>
<li>Vision and Mission for Purchasing.</li>
<li>Developing the Purchasing Department Strategic Plan.</li>
<li>Developing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Procurement.</li>
<li>Developing a Company Purchase Price Index.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Continuous Improvement and How to Get It:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Cost Reduction Initiatives.</li>
<li>Methods of Cost Containment.</li>
<li>Waste in the Supply Chain.</li>
<li>Breaking Down The Elements Of Supplier Cost.</li>
<li>Commodity/Service Strategic Planning.</li>
<li>Resisting Price Increases.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Supplier Management Approaches:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Supplier Classification System.</li>
<li>Supplier Qualification Methods.</li>
<li>Supplier Performance Metrics.</li>
<li>Apply Performance Criteria to Purchasing Decisions.</li>
<li>Process Mapping to Eliminate Low-Value Activities.</li>
<li>Applying eProcurement business process.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Improving the Image of Procurement:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Global Sourcing.</li>
<li>International Labor Rates Comparison.</li>
<li>Developing and Maintaining a Customer Focus.</li>
<li>Fundamental Issues in Corruption And Fraud Prevention.</li>
<li>Increasing the Level of Procurement Professionalism.</li>
<li>Keeping Current in the profession.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Conclusion:</h2>
Upon completion, individuals earn a certificate in purchasing management, validating their expertise and proficiency in this critical domain. Whether aspiring to enhance their career prospects or seeking to bolster organizational performance, the Strategic Purchasing Management Best Practices Course offers a comprehensive foundation for achieving excellence in procurement practices.">

Dubai (UAE)

7000 Euro

18 - 29 Aug 2024

6300 Euro

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Advanced Logistics & Material Management Course - (PR 15028)

Introduction:</h2>
This advanced logistics and material management course fully covers the role and impact of Logistics and Supply Chain Management on an organization by examining Supplier Management in Purchasing, Transportation Models, and Inventory Models from a cost-efficient and optimization perspective.
This highly interactive advanced logistics and material management course allows delegates to practice and develop key facets of advanced logistics and materials management. This training will enable delegates to manage international shipping systems and inventory strategically.
Throughout the advanced logistics and material management training course, examples of global best practices enable delegates to fully embed the learning and apply it to their roles upon returning to work after the course.
<h2>What is Material Management?</h2>
Material management is the cornerstone of supply chain efficiency and the procurement of quality goods at optimized costs. This advanced logistics and material management course will dive into the comprehensive understanding of material management definition, enhancing the skills necessary to become an effective material manager or material management specialist.
Participants can qualify for a material management certificate course through hands-on advanced logistics and material management training. They strive to attain material management certification, often a requisite for advancing in the field.
<h2>Targeted Groups:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Senior Professionals in Logistics Functions.</li>
<li>Purchasing, Warehouse, and Inventory Personnel.</li>
<li>Financial and Materials Management Teams.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives:</h2>
At the end of this advanced logistics and material management course, the participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Appreciate the implication of the impacts of logistics and materials management and purchasing functions both internally and externally to the organization</li>
<li>Apply the concepts of international logistics/freight procedures & documentation</li>
<li>Appreciate the importance of effective resource planning</li>
<li>Develop optimized work processes and financial areas such as cash flow, cost reduction, and management</li>
<li>Learn how to manage inventory utilizing selective inventory strategic policies effectively</li>
<li>Develop specific action plans to develop their role and organizational benefit further</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies:</h2>
Upon the end of this advanced logistics and material management training, the target competencies will:
<ul>
<li>Process mapping of the Supply Chain and internal processes for optimized results.</li>
<li>Management of risks and the actions of both internal departments and external stakeholders.</li>
<li>The impact of advanced logistics management is both on the organization’s financial resources and on internal and external customer service.</li>
<li>Integrating logistics forecasting with peak demands and resource planning to optimize the cost-efficiency in managing inventory.</li>
<li>Inventory models are used to manage effectively and, where appropriate, reduce inventories.</li>
<li>Global best practices in purchasing, inventory controls, and materials management.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content:</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: The Role of Logistics and Supply Chain Management in Modern Businesses:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Evaluate the Logistics Role in the Current Business Process.</li>
<li>The Evolution of Supply Chain Management and Supply Chain Dynamics.</li>
<li>The Application of a Supply Chain Approach.</li>
<li>How to use and Apply the Supply Chain Operations Reference Model (SCOR).</li>
<li>Identifying Supply Chain Instabilities and Risks.</li>
<li>Internal Supply Chain Risks.</li>
<li>PESTLE Risks.</li>
<li>Inventory Risks.</li>
<li>Disruption Risks.</li>
<li>Security Risks.</li>
<li>Procurement Risks.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Linking Strategies and Improvement in Cost and Productivity in Procurement:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Developing Spend Analysis to establish the Purchase Prices Index.</li>
<li>Examine the Total Cost of Ownership.</li>
<li>Analyze Supplier Portfolio and Classification utilizing and applying Kraljic’s Matric and Porter’s 5 Forces.</li>
<li>Formulate, Plan, and organize Strategic Purchasing Plans.</li>
<li>Illustrate the Effective Order-cycle and Lead-time Effect on Purchasing.</li>
<li>Plan and Organize for Negotiations.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Strategic Supply in Materials Management:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Formulate, Plan, and Organize Formal Procedures for Making Stock Decisions.</li>
<li>Explain, Discuss, and Review Safety Stock Levels and Order Points.</li>
<li>Apply and Improve Min / Max Systems and Settings.</li>
<li>Using Material Forecasts.</li>
<li>Cataloging Materials for Effective Buying Process.</li>
<li>Developing Bills of Material for Effective Parts Management.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Effective Inventory Planning and Control:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Setting Comprehensive Inventory Goals and Objectives.</li>
<li>Effecting a Rationalization Strategy.</li>
<li>Calculating and Evaluating Carrying Costs and Economic Order Quantity Theory.</li>
<li>Establishing a Strategic Focus with Pareto Analysis on Cost.</li>
<li>Improving Material Identification and Coding.</li>
<li>Creating Best Practices in the Physical Control of Materials.</li>
<li>Measuring Record Accuracy and Improving Cycle Counting Systems.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Tactical and Operational Approaches in Transportation Economics:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Apply the Role of Transportation in Logistics to the Organisation.</li>
<li>Identify and Recognize Transportation Management Strategic Key Decisions.</li>
<li>Explain, Discuss, and Review the Types of Mode and Intermodal Systems.</li>
<li>Show and Illustrate the International Commercial Terms in Transportation and the Liabilities.</li>
<li>Identify and Review Hazardous Materials Transportation.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Conclusion:</h2>
This advanced logistics and material management course unpacks the essentials of materials logistics management. It clarifies the correlation between logistics and material management.
We will demystify materials logistics management theory and apply it to real-world scenarios. Participants will explore the roles, from materials management technician to materials and logistics manager, including materials manager responsibilities.
The advanced logistics and material management course will differentiate the nuances of logistics material management, enabling efficient material management in logistics practices, and position professionals to pursue a logistics and materials management degree if desired.">

Online

14 - 18 Jul 2024

1500 Euro

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Fleet Management Training Certificate - (PR 15084)

Introduction:</h2>
Supply chain development is bringing new challenges for fleet managers, and safety remains important. Fleet management is significant in managing the distribution of products through extended supply chains. A company's reputation relies on timely and cost-effective management of these operations.
Participants enrolled in the fleet management training certificate course gain comprehensive knowledge and practical skills essential for navigating the intricacies of fleet management operations.
Throughout the fleet management certificate course, individuals delve into the core principles and methodologies of efficient fleet management, guided by industry experts. By understanding the definition of fleet management and exploring various fleet management tools, participants learn to optimize resources and streamline processes effectively.
This comprehensive program not only elucidates the benefits of fleet management but also equips learners with a profound understanding of fleet management's meaning in contemporary business contexts.
From exploring fleet management solutions to mastering the intricacies of a fleet management system, participants emerge as proficient fleet management experts, poised to drive operational excellence within their organizations.
<h2>Targeted Groups:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Fleet Managers.</li>
<li>Logistics Managers and Planners.</li>
<li>Distribution Managers.</li>
<li>Transport Managers.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives:</h2>
By the end of this fleet management course, the participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Understand the Changes That are Driving Change in Fleet Management.</li>
<li>Identify Gaps in Performance.</li>
<li>Develop a Fleet Management Strategy.</li>
<li>Analyze Risks in the Business Environment.</li>
<li>Build Sustainable Operations.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies:</h2>
At the end of this fleet management training, the participant's competencies will:
<ul>
<li>The Changing Nature of the Supply Chain Environment.</li>
<li>PESTEL for Fleet Managers.</li>
<li>Risk in Fleet Management.</li>
<li>Sustainability in Fleet Management.</li>
<li>Technology for Fleet Management.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content:</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: The Changing Nature of Supply Chain Management:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Why Do We Need Fleets?</li>
<li>The Make or Buy Decision.</li>
<li>Other Answers to Distribution.</li>
<li>Distribution Requirement Planning.</li>
<li>Threats in Supply Management.</li>
<li>Opportunities in Supply.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Analyzing Changes in the Operating Environment:</h3>
<ul>
<li>PESTEL Analysis.</li>
<li>Political Environment.</li>
<li>Social Factors.</li>
<li>Legal Concerns.</li>
<li>Economic Issues.</li>
<li>Technology.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Risk in The Fleet Management:</h3>
<ul>
<li>What is Risk, and How is it Different from Issues?</li>
<li>Risk and Safety.</li>
<li>Risk Reduction.</li>
<li>Mitigation.</li>
<li>Risk Avoidance.</li>
<li>Exercise on Risk Management.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Technology in Fleet Management:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Information Technologies.</li>
<li>Opportunities and Threats.</li>
<li>Power Technologies.</li>
<li>Financial Impacts of Technology.</li>
<li>Planning the 21st Century Fleet.</li>
</ul>
<h3> Unit 5: Sustainability for the Future:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Safety in the Future.</li>
<li>Reducing Carbon Footprint.</li>
<li>Integration with Other Modes.</li>
<li>Technology in Sustainability.</li>
<li>Artificial Intelligence.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Conclusion:</h2>
The fleet management training certificate course equips participants with the expertise to excel in fleet management operations. From understanding the definition to implementing solutions, graduates emerge as proficient experts ready to optimize resources and drive organizational success.">

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The Essentials of Procurement Management Skills Training - (PR 15087)

Introduction:</h2>
This procurement management skills course aims to improve the skills of Procurement Professionals and Senior Buyers in organizations. Advanced negotiation and procurement techniques, business continuity, and contingency planning are discussed and practiced in simulations.
The procurement management skills course examines the strategic importance of procurement departments by using concepts and ideas to maximize the procurement department's effectiveness, thereby reducing costs throughout the supply chain.
Upon completion, attendees earn a procurement management skills certificate, validating their field expertise. This certification in procurement managers distinguishes individuals as certified professionals, enhancing their credibility and career prospects.
<h2>Targeted Groups:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Contracts Personnel.</li>
<li>Purchasing Personnel.</li>
<li>Procurement Personnel.</li>
<li>Project, Engineering, Operational, and Maintenance Personnel who are involved in the planning and execution of purchases and contracts.</li>
<li>All involved in acquiring materials, equipment, and services and in organizations whose leadership wants high levels of competency in those involved in these activities.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives:</h2>
By the end of this procurement management skills course, the participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Review critical supply strategies.</li>
<li>Be provided with the concepts of activity-based costing.</li>
<li>Discuss current forces of change.</li>
<li>Learn how to create rapport, build trust, and establish credibility in a workgroup.</li>
<li>Understand that communication is vital to successful, productive workgroups.</li>
<li>Learn the skills required for good supplier relationships.</li>
<li>Study business continuity and contingency planning for procurement.</li>
<li>Be taught a category segmentation process.</li>
<li>Learn how to plan in successful negotiations.</li>
<li>Study different approaches in negotiations.</li>
<li>Examine standards of ethics.</li>
<li>Learn how to rate a supplier.</li>
<li>Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of suppliers.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies:</h2>
At the end of this procurement management skills training, the participant's competencies will be able to:
<ul>
<li>The ability to deliver real value in a shorter time.</li>
<li>Reduce the number of non-value-adding activities.</li>
<li>Improved relations between personnel, customers, and suppliers.</li>
<li>Reduction in total cost of ownership.</li>
<li>Improved supplier performance.</li>
<li>Management skills.</li>
<li>Leadership skills.</li>
<li>Strategic planning.</li>
<li>Purchasing methods.</li>
<li>Supplier communication.</li>
<li>Writing purchase orders.</li>
<li>Logistics methods.</li>
<li>Sourcing of materials.</li>
<li>Negotiation.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Essentials of Procurement Management Skills Training:</h2>
Participants in this essential procurement management skills training course gain comprehensive knowledge essential for excelling in procurement management roles. This course provides a thorough understanding of procurement management principles and practices, ensuring participants have the necessary skills to navigate the complexities of procurement processes.
The procurement management skills course outline covers crucial aspects such as strategic sourcing, contract negotiation, supplier management, and risk mitigation strategies. Through interactive sessions and practical exercises, participants develop key skills for procurement managers, including analytical prowess, negotiation tactics, and strategic decision-making abilities.
The course emphasizes the importance of communication, financial acumen, and relationship-building skills for effective procurement management. By mastering the skills required for procurement managers, participants emerge as competent professionals capable of driving procurement excellence within their organizations.
<h2>Course Content:</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Performance Purchasing:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Introduction to Purchasing and its contribution to the organization.</li>
<li>The Supply Chain and its Influence.</li>
<li>Influence of the External Environment.</li>
<li>Purchasing Organisations.</li>
<li>The Procurement Cycle.</li>
<li>Purchasing Systems.</li>
<li>Critical Supply Strategies.</li>
<li>Category Segmentation Process.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: The Supplier Relationship:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Transforming the Supplier Relationship.</li>
<li>Specifications.</li>
<li>Working with end-users.</li>
<li>Supplier Evaluation Criteria.</li>
<li>Appropriate Supplier Methodologies.</li>
<li>Total Cost Approach.</li>
<li>Defining the Organization's Mission In Building Supplier Relationship.</li>
<li>How to be A Good Customer.</li>
<li>Communication, Trust, and Credibility as Key Elements.</li>
<li>Shrinking the Supplier Base.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Advanced Negotiation Skills:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Avoiding Confrontational Negotiating.</li>
<li>Developing Active Listening Skills.</li>
<li>Negotiating with an Angry Person.</li>
<li>Dealing with Back Door Selling.</li>
<li>Power Closes that on the Buyer.</li>
<li>Understanding the other Negotiator's Power.</li>
<li>Negotiating Pressure Points.</li>
<li>Negotiating with an Untrustworthy Counterpart.</li>
<li>Negotiation Tactics and Countermeasures.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Leadership Skills for Procurement Personnel:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Communication techniques are verbal, non-verbal, and written.</li>
<li>Methods of communication lead to more productive work and minimize stress.</li>
<li>Communication and interaction openness develops trust.</li>
<li>Identification of interpersonal interaction methods.</li>
<li>Recognizing responses to and perceptions of change.</li>
<li>Analyzing and preparing for the human reaction to change.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Advancing Procurement Contribution:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Attract And Retain Supply Management Talent.</li>
<li>Supplier Measurement.</li>
<li>Vendor Rating.</li>
<li>Steps In Developing Performance-Based Contracts.</li>
<li>Action Planning.</li>
<li>Business Continuity and Contingency Planning for Procurement.</li>
<li>What Is Activity-Based Costing?</li>
<li>Price Cost and Value.</li>
<li>Ways that Advanced Procurement Can Improve Organisation's Finances.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Conclusion:</h2>
The essentials of procurement management skills training course offers participants vital expertise for success in procurement management. This program provides comprehensive training and leads to a valuable certificate in procurement management.
By focusing on key skills required for procurement managers, such as strategic sourcing and negotiation tactics, attendees emerge as adept leaders capable of driving procurement excellence.
This procurement management skills course is an essential stepping stone for those seeking certification as procurement managers. It equips them with the necessary tools and knowledge to thrive in their roles.">

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Certified Logistics & Transportation Manager - (PR 15151)

Introduction:</h2>
Effective management of the flow of materials throughout an organization's supply chain is critical. This certified logistics and transportation manager course updates you with the latest logistics models and practices.
The certified logistics and transportation manager course optimizes transport, warehouse, and inventory management activities. Participants will gain comprehensive knowledge in transport and logistics management, preparing them for the role of logistics and transportation manager.
<h2>Transport and Logistics Management:</h2>
Transport and Logistics Management is a fundamental aspect of modern business, covering the efficient movement of goods and services within the supply chain. This certified logistics and transportation manager course addresses the challenges and best practices in transportation and logistics management, ensuring participants understand how to streamline operations and improve logistics performance.
<h2>Targeted Groups:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Supply Chain Coordinators (logistic managers and marketing managers).</li>
<li>Logistic officers and Coordinators.</li>
<li>Procurement Managers and Officers.</li>
<li>Warehousing Managers.</li>
<li>Transportation Coordinators.</li>
<li>Personnel of freight forwarders.</li>
<li>Personnel of logistics service providers.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives:</h2>
At the end of this certified logistics and transportation manager course, participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Explore new methods and technologies in warehousing.</li>
<li>Develop a strategy to manage inventories better.</li>
<li>Improve control over warehouse and transportation operations.</li>
<li>Analyze the function of transportation management and choose the best strategies.</li>
<li>Understand new trends in supply management and International supply chain management.</li>
<li>Ability to use INCOTERMS skillfully.</li>
<li>Ability to use logistics performance metrics.</li>
<li>Getting to know shipping documents and dealing with bills of lading in paper and electronic form.</li>
<li>Learn about supply chain risk management and transportation risk management techniques.</li>
<li>Use negotiation techniques and sharpen negotiation skills.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies:</h2>
By the end of this certified logistics and transportation manager training, participants' competencies will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Supply chain management.</li>
<li>Enhancing customer value.</li>
<li>Warehouse design.</li>
<li>Warehouse operation.</li>
<li>Inventory management.</li>
<li>Transportation management.</li>
<li>INCOTERMS.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content:</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Logistics Strategies:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Welcome, introduce, and introduce session aims and objectives.</li>
<li>Logistics Definition and Why the Increasing Interest?</li>
<li>Major transportation modes.</li>
<li>Warehouse strategies.</li>
<li>The evolution of logistics strategy.</li>
<li>Q&A.</li>
<li>Homework.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Warehousing:</h3>
<ul>
<li>A quick review of the last session.</li>
<li>Homework solution.</li>
<li>Introduce session objectives.</li>
<li>Inventory management, classifications, functions, problems, importance.</li>
<li>ABC analysis.</li>
<li>Inventory Record Accuracy and Cycle Counting.</li>
<li>Basic EOQ model.</li>
<li>Quantity discount models.</li>
<li>When to reorder with EOQ ordering.</li>
<li>Warehouse management.</li>
<li>Q&A.</li>
<li>Homework.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Logistics and Supply Chain:</h3>
<ul>
<li>A quick review of the last session.</li>
<li>Homework solution.</li>
<li>Introduce session objectives.</li>
<li>What is the supply chain?</li>
<li>Supply chain management.</li>
<li>Supply chain performance measures.</li>
<li>Supply chain design.</li>
<li>Managing the supply chain risks.</li>
<li>International logistics.</li>
<li>Q&A.</li>
<li>Homework.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Transportation:</h3>
<ul>
<li>A quick review of the last session.</li>
<li>Homework solution.</li>
<li>Introducing session objectives.</li>
<li>Transportation operations.</li>
<li>INCOTERMS.</li>
<li>Transportation risk management.</li>
<li>Transportation sourcing and management.</li>
<li>Q&A.</li>
<li>Homework.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Documentation, Negotiation skills, Logistics Planning</h3>
<ul>
<li>A quick review of the last session.</li>
<li>Homework solution.</li>
<li>Introduce session objectives.</li>
<li>Logistics documentation.</li>
<li>Bill of lading.</li>
<li>Negotiation skills.</li>
<li>Logistics planning.</li>
<li>Q&A.</li>
<li>General review.</li>
</ul>">

18 - 22 Aug 2024

3500 Euro

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Procurement, Tendering, and Contract Management (Certified) - (PR 15165)

Introduction:</h2>
The procurement function has transcended its traditional administrative role to become a key strategic component of business operations. In the modern business landscape, it is not enough to convert requisitions into orders: the development and implementation of comprehensive strategies for acquiring materials, goods, equipment, and services are crucial for organizations looking to minimize operating costs while enhancing quality and productivity.
This procurement, tendering, and contract management course delves into the strategic importance of the procurement function and its substantial impact on an organization's success. We will scrutinize supplier evaluation, negotiation, procurement tendering, and contract management to optimize the procurement department's performance and contribution.
<h2>Certificate of Procurement, Tendering, and Contract Management:</h2>
A procurement, tendering, and contract management certificate signifies a comprehensive understanding of the two interconnected fields. Participants in this course will be equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively manage tendering in procurement and ensure that contract management in procurement serves the business's strategic and operational objectives.
<h2>Targeted Groups:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Procurement Managers.</li>
<li>Purchasing Supervisors.</li>
<li>Contracts Personnel.</li>
<li>Tender Officials and Committees.</li>
<li>Negotiation and Purchasing Committees.</li>
<li>Procurement/Purchasing Personnel.</li>
<li>Senior Buyers.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives:</h2>
By the conclusion of this procurement, tendering, and contract management course, participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Comprehend the integral elements and processes of procurement systems.</li>
<li>Assess sourcing strategies and conduct thorough supplier evaluations.</li>
<li>Understand the legal nuances and administrative aspects of contracts.</li>
<li>Exercise proficient management over tendering processes.</li>
<li>Formulate meaningful procurement and tendering performance measurements.</li>
<li>Enhance their abilities in all facets of strategic procurement.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies:</h2>
Upon the conclusion of this procurement, tendering, and contract management training, the target competencies will:
<ul>
<li>Master managing tenders and contracts.</li>
<li>Swift delivery of tangible value.</li>
<li>Decrease in non-value-adding activities.</li>
<li>Advance relationships among staff, customers, and suppliers.</li>
<li>Lower the total cost of ownership.</li>
<li>Elevate supplier performance and procurement contract management.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Content:</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Introduction to Procurement Management:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Welcome, Introduction, and Introducing Course Objectives.</li>
<li>Purchasing and its position in procurement management.</li>
<li>The role of procurement.</li>
<li>Purchase functions.</li>
<li>Procurement functions.</li>
<li>Team role.</li>
<li>Procurement Processes.</li>
<li>Procurement planning – make or buy analysis.</li>
<li>Q&A & Homework.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Sourcing Analysis and Supplier Evaluation:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Review of the previous session.</li>
<li>Homework solutions.</li>
<li>Explore sourcing analysis and strategies.</li>
<li>Comprehensive Supplier Evaluation.</li>
<li>The Dynamics of Buyer-Seller Negotiation.</li>
<li>Embracing the Win-Win Negotiation concept.</li>
<li>Q&A & Homework.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Effective Negotiation and Procurement Execution:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Review of the previous session.</li>
<li>Homework solutions.</li>
<li>The intricate Communication process.</li>
<li>Identify Personality Types in Negotiation.</li>
<li>Engage in Negotiation practice.</li>
<li>Delve into Procurement Execution.</li>
<li>Understand INCOTERMS (International Commerce Terms).</li>
<li>Q&A & Homework.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Tenders and Contract Management:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Review of the previous session.</li>
<li>Homework solutions.</li>
<li>Tender information and process.</li>
<li>Examine Contract documents.</li>
<li>Classification of Contracts.</li>
<li>Significance of the Security deposit.</li>
<li>Criteria for Contractor Qualifications.</li>
<li>Q&A & Homework.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Supplier Management and Best Practices:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Review of the previous session.</li>
<li>Homework solutions.</li>
<li>Explore Contract Management Good Practices.</li>
<li>Evaluate Procurement Documents.</li>
<li>Measure Supplier Performance.</li>
<li>Analyze Procurement Metrics.</li>
<li>Fundamentals of Contract Law.</li>
<li>Adhere to Purchasing Ethics.</li>
<li>Exercises in determining the optimal number of orders.</li>
<li>Q&A & Applications.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Conclusion:</h2>
Throughout this procurement, tendering, and contract management course, participants will gain insight into the best practice guide for tendering and contract management and understand the benefits of contract management in procurement. They will learn what tendering and contracting entail and enhance their tendering management skills. Overall, the course embodies the essence of procurement and contract management, preparing attendees for successful careers in this field.">

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Procurement Best Practices (Customized) Training - (PR 15176)

Introduction:</h2>
The Procurement function has evolved significantly from its early administrative roots to become a key strategic unit within modern businesses. Today, effective procurement is about delivering added value to the organization by acquiring products and services that support its objectives and contribute to its success.
One key aspect of this is implementing best practices across the four levels of Procurement activity: strategic, Tactical, Operational, and Contive. This seminar is designed for those who aspire to elevate their Procurement function to a high-performance level by implementing sustainable and efficient best practices.
<h2>Sustainable Procurement Best Practices:</h2>
Incorporating sustainable procurement best practices allows organizations to make decisions that benefit the economy, society, and the environment. Professionals can promote positive change and demonstrate a commitment to corporate social responsibility by evaluating the broader impact of procurement decisions.
<h2>Targeted Groups:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Contracts Personnel.</li>
<li>Purchasing Personnel.</li>
<li>Procurement Personnel.</li>
<li>Project, Engineering, Operational, and Maintenance Personnel who are involved in the planning and execution of purchases and contracts.</li>
<li>All individuals in organizations prioritize high levels of competency in procurement activities.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Course Objectives:</h2>
By the end of this procurement best practices training program, participants will be able to:
<ul>
<li>Grasp the evolution of procurement and its expanding role.</li>
<li>Explain the inputs, outputs, and processes of a high-performing Procurement system.</li>
<li>Formulate meaningful performance measurements.</li>
<li>Recognize the imperative conditions required at all four Procurement levels.</li>
<li>Amplify skill sets in every phase of the strategic procurement process.</li>
<li>Lead, plan, and manage the procurement process effectively.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Targeted Competencies:</h2>
Participants in this procurement best practices course will develop the following:
<ul>
<li>Learn the ability to deliver tangible value more efficiently.</li>
<li>Understand strategies to reduce non-value-adding activities in the procurement cycle.</li>
<li>Explain a foundation for improving relationships with personnel, customers, and suppliers.</li>
<li>Know the skills to reduce the total cost of ownership of goods and services.</li>
<li>Explore methods for enhancing supplier performance and engagement.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Best Practice Procurement Policy and Guidelines:</h2>
Developing and adhering to a best-practice procurement policy and guidelines is essential and ensures that procurement practices are consistent, efficient, and compliant with laws and regulations. It also helps establish clear expectations, solid supplier interaction, and a contract management framework.
The best practices in the procurement process focus on optimizing and streamlining every step, from sourcing to payment, to ensure value creation and cost savings for the organization. Embracing technology procurement best practices, including automation and data analytics, can provide significant advantages in terms of efficiency and decision-making.
Leveraging marketing procurement best practices, such as strategic sourcing of marketing services and materials, aligning procurement with brand strategy, and ensuring that marketing investments contribute to long-term value creation, can help organizations achieve cost savings and improved marketing performance.
Integrating technology procurement best practices enables organizations to efficiently manage the complexities of acquiring new technology solutions. It includes due diligence in the selection process, assessing the total cost of technology ownership, and ensuring that technology investments are aligned with the organization's strategic goals.
<h2>Course Content:</h2>
<h3>Unit 1: Developing the Strategic Procurement Decisions:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Explore the make/buy decision and its implications.</li>
<li>Consider vertical integration as a strategic move.</li>
<li>Create alliances and partnerships to strengthen supply chains.</li>
<li>Evaluate intercompany trade benefits and challenges.</li>
<li>Investigate reciprocity and countertrade options.</li>
<li>Develop a comprehensive supplier strategy.</li>
<li>Coordinate the procurement strategy across the organization.</li>
<li>Structure the Purchasing organization to support strategic goals.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 2: Implementing the Tactical Procurement Decisions:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Encourage early supplier involvement in product development.</li>
<li>Apply value analysis techniques to procurement.</li>
<li>Strengthen Quality Assurance programs.</li>
<li>Opt for systemic supplier selection processes.</li>
<li>Rate and ranking suppliers based on performance metrics.</li>
<li>Manage contracts proactively.</li>
<li>Utilize IT systems and e-procurement to enhance efficiency.</li>
<li>Establish pertinent policies and procedures for procurement activities.</li>
<li>Staff the Procurement Department with skilled personnel.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 3: Dealing with Operational Procurement Decisions:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Choose the most suitable ordering processes.</li>
<li>Address and resolve quality issues as they arise.</li>
<li>Ensure timely follow-up on procurement actions.</li>
<li>Manage overdue orders and streamline expediting processes.</li>
<li>Establish a streamlined payment process for vendors.</li>
<li>Implement cost reduction measures for small-value purchase orders.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 4: Procurement Performance Measurement:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Conduct thorough spend analyses for better visibility.</li>
<li>Emphasize the total cost of ownership as a critical metric.</li>
<li>Employ consistent supplier performance measurement techniques.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Unit 5: Advanced Procurement Strategies and Innovation</h3>
<ul>
<li>Implement sustainable procurement practices.</li>
<li>Leverage big data and analytics for strategic decision-making.</li>
<li>Integrate advanced technologies like AI and blockchain.</li>
<li>Foster innovation through supplier collaboration.</li>
<li>Develop risk management strategies for supply chain disruptions.</li>
<li>Explore global sourcing opportunities and challenges.</li>
<li>Enhance procurement agility to adapt to market changes.</li>
<li>Promote continuous improvement in procurement processes.</li>
</ul>">

Paris (France)

08 - 12 Jul 2024

4900 Euro