This new approach maximizes value from procurement by combining traditional techniques, with newer tools, techniques, and approaches. We will give an understanding of the Category Management methodology with the necessary working knowledge of how this approach can be used and is now being used, by World Class companies.
This course shows how Category Management maximizes value from procurement by integrating supplier sourcing, supplier management, supplier development, and supplier relationship management. Effective Global Procurement and The Supply Chain can create economic profit for World-Class supply chains, we will also demonstrate how this can be achieved
Apply a thorough understanding of supply chain activities
Identify, analyze and evaluate procurement opportunities
Understand the keys aspects in category management
Use tools and techniques
Make procurement and supply chain organizational improvements
Understand the current procurement and supply chains activities
Access these for value opportunities
Examine how to maximize value from procurement
Understanding the role of procurement in the total supply chain
Apply appropriate tools
Make continual improvements
Procurement Professionals
Supply Chain Professionals
Tender or Bidding Managers
Project Engineers and Project Managers
Procurement and purchasing definitions
A vision for procurement
The 21st-century procurement challenge
Procurement and the Supply Chain
The 8 Supply Chain Rules
Supply chain excellence and shareholder value
Competitive advantage
The 2008 economic crisis and the consequences for the supply chain
Procurement structure options
Supply Chain Models and Types
The Global Supply Chain
Category Management definitions
The evolution of Category Management
Category grouping overview
The three aspects to be considered in category groups
The procurement excellence roadmap
The Purchasing land Supplier loops
Why we should use Category Management
How category management improves the value
How category management builds from P2P and the procurement cycle
Integrating approaches
The two outcomes to maximize value from procurement
The value opportunities that come from using Category Management
Traditional purchasing revisited
The P2P and procurement cycle
Value and risk analysis
Kraljic matrix
The Category management and value opportunities
Volume concentration
Best price evaluation
Low-cost country sourcing
Supplier management objectives
Supplier customer connections
Supplier service
Supplier management and contract management
Best practice contract management
Supplier relationship management definitions and aims
Applying Supplier relationship management
Collaboration
Supplier development definitions and aims
Best practice in supplier development
Changed views and lessons
Benefits and improvements
The Category Management outcomes and value opportunities
Specification improvements
Joint process development and linking price with suppliers
Value chain disruption and managing supply chain risk
Best practice in supplier management
Common barriers and challenges
Internal conflicts
Perception of procurement
Lack of creativity
Skillsets
Trust
Fear of change
Overcoming such barriers
Best Practice in the implementation of new ideas
Understand the current situation
Key questions
Research and analysis
Design and improvement
Key questions
What needs doing
Plan the new processes and structures
What needs doing
Key questions
Operate and review the new processes
Key questions
What needs doing
Making strategy a continuous process
Supply chain futures, predictions and what needs to done
Agility
Network design
China supply chain effects
Going “Green”
Professional leaders/manager development
The 10 improvement for reengineering end to end supply chains
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This course is designed for participants to introduce to key issues and themes in international development.
Participants will explore and engage in academic debates and discussions around a set of key factors that shape, influence, and constrain the development and prosperity of nations.
The course will explore a number of key themes in international development, including how questions of gender and generation shape the impact of poverty; how processes of globalization, migration, and violent conflict impact development; and how development and the environment are linked.
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