Live Instructor-Led World CC (formally IACCM) Modern Procurement Programme – Practitioner Certification
Leading to the award of an internationally recognised certification in Procurement at Practitioner Level
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Aims
This course is designed to empower the participant with the skills and knowledge to understand commercial procurement principles and techniques in an operational and managerial role to ensure optimal outcomes and to work in an agile and collaborative way with key stakeholders, with particular reference to contract managers, commercial managers and end users.
Lead Consultant Dr Ray Carter – Fellow of World Commerce & Contracting Association (World CC), Creator of 10C Model & CIPS Purchasing Managers Index Panel
Target Audience
The course is ideal for experienced (and semi-experienced) commercial procurement managers in both the public and private sectors who would like to demonstrate significant achievements in the field and/or gain knowledge and best practice insights. At this level, it is expected that candidates will have some varied experiences. Typically, participants will be Buyers, Procurement Specialists, Contracting Officers, Procurement Analysts, Purchasing Managers, Commissioners, Procurement Officers, Directs and Indirect Buyers, Sourcing Managers, Category Managers, Procurement Assistants, Lead Buyers and Procurement Managers. The course is also of value to those who have recently embarked upon a career in procurement.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the participants will be able to:
- Understand and utilise spend analytics
- Develop a robust and appropriate Sourcing strategy, local and global
- Develop RFP, RFQ and ITT’s
- Undertake risk management and mitigation
- Understand the importance of effective negotiation and the importance of preparation and stakeholder support
- Develop negotiation strategies, ploys and tactics to achieve optimal outcomes
- Develop skills in contract drafting, design and simplification
- Develop effective scopes of work and specifications
- Enhance commercial awareness and bottom-line impact
- Order to pay process (authorisation, budgeting, order placement, logistics,
- Payment and supply chain financing
- Understand and develop category management systems
- Apply contract management tools, techniques and processes
- Understand the importance of effective supplier management and the development of adding value relationship
- Appreciate the need for change management to facilitate modern procurement practices
- Understand quality and service concepts
- Define the different types of risk that procurement needs to analyse that can impact commercial contracts
- Explain the need for suitable policies & procedures/governance and ethical/sustainable codes and standards
- Understand the variety of operational risks
- Analyse the complexity of risks associated with new technology
- Examine the use of contract remedies for mitigating risks
- Understand how procurement can utilise risk strategies to manage commercial contractual risks
- Able to review the risk management cycle
- Understand procurement’s approach to resolving disputes
- Understand the dynamics and needs of Supply Chains,
- Understand the categories of value added delivered via procurement
- Develop appropriate relationships across the supply chain
- Understand and apply techniques to achieve effective supply chain management
- Assess how the developments of procurement skills and improved knowledge can help create improved value within the supply chain
- Understand the role of the change agent and gauge the acceptance of strategic change
- Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)
- Understand the importance to procurement; of building relationships
- Recognise the key stages and the role of procurement in forming business relationships
- Appreciate that procurement needs to recognise the role & importance of suppliers as strategic assets,
- Understand how procurement can create partnerships
- Recognise how procurement can become a ‘customer of choice’
- Understand the role of procurement as a change Agent
