Introduction to Public Procurement and Supply Chain Management

Participants attending this workshop training will:

• Review the meaning of strategic procurement
• Be given examples of best practices in procurement and the supply chain
• Review how to obtain best pricing
• Be taught how to develop spend analysis
• Develop a functional and cross functional view of the supply chain
• See that better working with all of the supply chain players pays
• Consider Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)

CONTENT:

• Seeing Procurement as a Dynamic, Interactive System
• Developing the Strategic Procurement Decisions
• Implementing the Tactical Procurement Decisions
• Dealing with Operational Procurement Decisions
• Contingency Procurement Decisions
• Procurement Performance Measurement 
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• Understanding Logistics and the Supply Chain
• Transportation Economics
• Performance, Risk and Warehouse Management
• Procurement in Supply Chain
• Inventory Management

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.