International procurement is a complex process, which has the potential to provide many benefits to the organization in the form of lower prices, higher quality and improved supplier performance. In this programme you will learn how to:
Develop your management skills.
Build your staff into a dynamic team.
Develop a strategic mind-set.
Negotiate in a dynamic fashion.
Target vision of excellence for your operation.
Locate, evaluate and manage international sources.
Implement best practices in international procurement.
Effectively draft an international procurement contract.
Manage the international movement of materials.
Examine management best practices.
Appraise powerful techniques for building teamwork.
Scrutinize important aspects of strategic thinking.
Evaluate the key elements of operational excellence.
Examine how to locate and evaluate new sources internationally.
Consider the impact of the internet on purchasing operations.
Review best practices in international purchasing.
Analyse ways of managing suppliers more effectively.
Study new concepts in inventory management.
Explore productive negotiating skills.
Understand the proper drafting of international contracts.
Plan for effective international transportation management.
Professionals Seeking Career Advancement
Career ChangersConsultants and Advisors
Business Owners and Entrepreneurs
Operations Managers
Sourcing Managers
Supply Chain Managers
Procurement Professionals
The importance of socio-technical management.
Techniques for effective communication.
Motivating for results.
Enhancing your coaching skills.
Empowering employees for improved performance.
Characteristics of a successful manager.
Obtaining the benefits of teamwork.
Characteristics of ineffective teams.
Characteristics of effective teams.
Managing conflict in a productive manner.
Understanding team member styles.
Creating a virtual team.
Analyzing the strategic planning process.
Achieving competitive advantage.
Utilizing dynamic SWOT analysis.
Focusing on vision and mission.
The importance of contingency planning.
Examples of strategic success and failure.
Gaining insight into the negotiating process.
Characteristics of an effective negotiator.
Developing negotiating strategies.
Employing persuasive negotiation techniques.
Achieving the benefits of effective negotiating.
Negotiation exercises.
The Malcolm Baldrige quality award-standard of excellence.
Lessons from the best performing companies.
Benchmarking your operation against the best.
Creating employee commitment.
Managing continuous improvement.
Creating the high performance organization.
Globalization and its effects.
Utilizing the internet for procurement.
Modern buying practices.
Assuring supplier performance.
Methods for determining price.
Procurement’s role in the organization.
Procurement performance measurement.
Long term contract pricing formulas.
International buying operations.
International counter-trade.
Achieving the benefits of global procurement.
Overcoming the difficulties of international buying.
Because supervisory levels are the link between the executive and senior management levels, achieving the organization's objectives, increasing productivity and overall performance of the organization, affects the effectiveness and efficiency of supervisors' performance.
And because of the skills of supervisors in any organization in need of continuous development, and to acquire advanced tools and methods that reflect on the deepening of these skills and activate their role in motivating individuals working, and push them to commit to the goals of the organization.
You need this conference to learn about supervisory skills and advanced methods, to be able to play an effective and supervisory role in your organization.
Managing an office has become an increasingly sophisticated and complex job. The increased demand for speed and accuracy, knowledge of new technology, and an increasingly diverse workforce bring challenges and also opportunities for growth. This dynamic and in-depth course explores some of the more advanced skills which can help an office manager to work more confidently, creatively, and effectively.
As a supervisor, the success of your organization rests in your hands. This course provides you with the opportunity to develop highly effective and essential supervisory skills that will strengthen teamwork and organizational success. Also, this course will help you manage everyday operations with greater ease. Furthermore, it will help you leverage both your managerial and people skills to meet your new challenges as the 21st-century supervisor.
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.
It also considers what exactly we mean by poverty, and how different ways of understanding poverty feed into different approaches to tackling it.
It will also consider development institutions: what are the key institutions in the architecture of international development? How do they differ, and what are the challenges and opportunities they present? Through this module, participants will gain a solid background in the various factors which shape current approaches to and debates on international development.
By introducing participants to a range of problems in economic development, we will look to analyze how economic theory and models can explain the lack of development in some nations. We will apply such theory to real-world economies to understand the nature of the problems they face and how effective policies can be in tackling the problems.
A five-day course on the practical aspects of piping and pipeline design, integrity, maintenance, and repair. The participants will obtain an in-depth understanding of the ASME B31 code rules and API standards, their technical basis, and practical application to field conditions.
Corporate/Public governance and risk management are critical There is increasing attention being paid to corporate governance and risk management in business schools and among legislators.