Procurement & Supply Chain · 5 Days · Public · Al-Khobraa certified · From USD 3,900
Overview
This 5-day master class provides delegates with practical Procurement skills that provide a competitive edge across their relevant sectors. Focusing on Cost out and Value add will Control your operating costs, minimize supply chain risks and maximize your business profits. Mastery of Procurement and Supply management provides a competitive advantage to all companies. This five-day master class includes how to build and manage an optimal procurement function in direct and indirect spending that delivers both business and procurement targets.
Learning Objectives
Position you and your function as a world-class procurement practice that maximizes benefits across your organization.
Equip you with the strategic tools and models for enhanced commercial skills and byer-seller interactions.
Effectively remove cost from your business whilst minimizing business and operational risks to add value and improve profitability.
Learn when to formally “Tender” requirements and when it is more effective to seek proposals using Category Management methodology.
Learn the assembly of costs that build suppliers' prices to gain knowledge in effective expenditure management.
Understand the role of Professional Purchasers
Learn about and practice the key skills Purchasers need to have
The essential requirements for Purchasing Management
Team structures and roles
The benefits of improved purchasing
Implementing changes within the team and with other departments
Strategies and tactics for improved buying
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for professionals working in procurement, buyers / purchasing professionals in business, project personnel working with contractors, and other professionals seeking to strengthen their capability in this area.
Professionals working in Procurement
Buyers / Purchasing Professionals in business
Project personnel working with contractors
Professionals in Contracting or other roles
Course Outline
Day 1 — Purchasing in the Organization
What is the role of Purchasing in modern organizations?
What is international Best Practice?
What do other functions want from Purchasing?
Supply Chain Management Concepts
Day 2 — Category Management Implementation
Driving change and managing the supply market organizes procurement resources to focus on specific areas of spend, thus creating new opportunities for savings and value.
Application of Cost Price and Value Analysis To fully understand how to manage expenditure Procurement must understand the assembly of costs that build suppliers prices
Capturing and Reporting your Benefits Procurement must show its success through financial benefits and risk prevention.
This is part of the extensive reporting it must be undertaken Group Exercise – Category Design and implementation plan
Day 3 — Strategic Sourcing
The process of identifying, evaluating, negotiating, and optimizing the procurement of strategic goods and services that best support the strategic objectives of the business.
The process should aim to standardize the sourcing process within an organization, place more spend under the prudent eye of procurement and ensure that any value generated is properly executed, measured, and monitored.
Strategic Tendering The use of tendering tools is an essential lever for Procurement in managing supplier expenditure
Supplier Selection and Appointment How you define your selection criteria for a supplier based on your priorities is key to procurement mastery • Strategic Sourcing Models and Tools The application and use of strategic tools to understand macro and micro impacts on procurement will assist in reducing costs and increasing value
Day 4 — Vendor Relationship Management
Integrating Supplier Relationship Management into your Procurement program will deliver mutually beneficial relationships with suppliers, encourage improved communication, enhance openness and create transparency
Legal Contracts To protect Value and prevent risk. Understanding that the benefits of sourcing is within the contract duration and means locking in the sourcing benefits
Supply Chain Management Procurements role sits in the wider organization and to be successful must understand the logistics and operations of the business o Case Study – Moving from contract to strategic Supplier Relationship management
Day 5 — Essential Skills for Purchasing
Purchasing Segmentation • Supplier Intelligence and planning
Supplier Selection
Supplier reduction and optimization
Requests for Information and Requests for Quotation
Accreditation
Al-Khobraa certified. On completion delegates receive an Al-Khobraa certificate of achievement.
What do Al-Khobraa procurement and supply chain courses cover?
The portfolio covers strategic sourcing and category management, tendering and supplier evaluation, contract and supplier performance management, negotiation, logistics, warehousing and inventory control — alongside preparation for CIPS (Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply) qualifications, the global benchmark for the profession.
Who should attend a procurement and supply chain course?
These courses suit procurement and purchasing officers, category and sourcing managers, contract administrators, warehouse and inventory supervisors, logistics and materials planners, and finance or engineering staff who raise and evaluate tenders. No prior CIPS study is assumed.
How long are procurement and supply chain courses, and where are they held?
Most Al-Khobraa procurement and supply chain courses run over 5 days. The exact duration, dates and city for this course are listed in the dates section on this page. Public sessions run across Saudi Arabia — Riyadh, Jeddah, Al-Khobar, Jubail and Yanbu — as well as regional and international venues, with live virtual classrooms available on request.
What certificate will I receive?
Delegates who complete the course receive an Al-Khobraa certificate of completion, issued by a Saudi-registered training provider. Al-Khobraa also delivers internationally accredited programmes; where a course carries an external awarding body such as PMI, CIPS, ILM or IOSH, that body is named on the course's own page.
Can procurement and supply chain training be delivered in-house for our team?
Yes. Any Al-Khobraa procurement and supply chain course can be delivered in-house at your own premises anywhere in Saudi Arabia or the GCC, with the content, dates and language of delivery tailored to your team. Al-Khobraa is an approved HRDF (Hadaf) provider, so eligible Saudi employers can seek training support. Contact us for a quotation.