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Effective Global Procurement

Duration
2025-09-08 5 Days 2025-09-12
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PC-622
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Zurich

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4750 $ | 25 Hours

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The Course

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 seminar shows how Category Management maximises value from procurement by integrating supplier sourcing, supplier management, supplier development and supplier relationships management.

Effective Category Management of procurement and the supply chain can create economic profit for World Class supply chains; we will also demonstrate how this can be achieved.

The Goals
  • Apply a thorough understanding of supply chain activities
  • Identify, analyse and evaluate procurement opportunities
  • Understand the keys aspects in category management
  • Use tools and techniques
  • Make procurement and supply chain organisational improvements
The Delegates
  • Procurement, buyers and purchasing professionals
  • All those who need to maximise value from procurement and the supply chain
  • All of those who need an understanding of the relationships between risk, cost and service in supply chains
The Process
  • Discussion and lectures using international best practice
  • Practical applications
  • Case studies
  • Extensive course manual
  • Visual media
  • Presented by the author of many books on supply chain and procurement topics
The Benefits
  • Understanding the role procurement in the total supply chain
  • Understand what drives your other supply chain players
  • Use analytical tools to identify procurement opportunities
  • Make cost and service improvements
  • Gain a framework for continual improvement
  • Use best in class practices like economic profit
The Results
  • Understand the current procurement and supply chains activities
  • Access these for value opportunities
  • Examine how to maximize value from procurement
  • Apply appropriate tools
  • Make continual improvements
The Core Competencies
  • Analysis
  • Evaluation
  • Improving
  • Make change
  • Sharing and understanding others points of view
The Programme Content
Day One
Understanding procurement and category management
  • 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
  • Category Management structures
Day Two
Maximising value and procurement excellence by using varied routes
  • The procurement excellence roadmap
  • The Purchasing land Supplier loops
  • Why we should use Category Management
  • How category management improves value
  • How category management builds from P2P and the procurement cycle
  • Integrating approaches
  • The two outcomes to maximise value from procurement
  • The value opportunities that come from using Category Management
Day Three
Understanding the supplier sourcing and selection routes
  • 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
Understanding collaborative supplier management
  • 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
Day Four
Recognising and overcoming the barriers to Category Management
  • Common barriers and challenges
  • Internal conflicts
  • Perception of procurement
  • Lack of creativity
  • Skill sets
  • Trust
  • Fear of change
  • Overcoming such barriers
  • Best Practice in the implementation of new ideas
The 4 step model for introducing Category Management
  • Understand the current situation
    • Key questions
    • Research and analysis
  • Design and improvement
  • Key questions
  • What needs doing
Day Five
The 4 step model for introducing Category Management, continued
  • 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
Category Management and rethinking the supply chain
  • 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
  • Supply chain excellence and shareholder value
  • Generating economic profit
  • The 5 steps to supply chain excellence
  • Developing the supply chain strategy
  • Supply chain strategy best practice
  • A vision for the future

Day 1

Asset Cost Management Introduction

Definitions of reliability, maintenance & asset management
The total cost of maintenance
Best practice reliability and maintenance processes
Elements of asset management best practice
Auditing performance
Overview of TPM, RCM, BCM, QCM, and other asset management buzzword
Open discussion sessions

Day 2

Laying the Groundwork

Definitions of reliability, maintenance & asset management
The total cost of maintenance
Best practice reliability and maintenance processes
Elements of asset management best practice
Auditing performance
Overview of TPM, RCM, BCM, QCM, and other asset management buzzword
Open discussion sessions

Day 3

Applying the Value based Process

Definitions of reliability, maintenance & asset management
The total cost of maintenance
Best practice reliability and maintenance processes
Elements of asset management best practice
Auditing performance
Overview of TPM, RCM, BCM, QCM, and other asset management buzzword
Open discussion sessions

Day 4

Ensuring the Continuity of the Value-based Process

Definitions of reliability, maintenance & asset management
The total cost of maintenance
Best practice reliability and maintenance processes
Elements of asset management best practice
Auditing performance
Overview of TPM, RCM, BCM, QCM, and other asset management buzzword
Open discussion sessions

Day 5

Supporting Process that Lower Life-cycle costs

Definitions of reliability, maintenance & asset management
The total cost of maintenance
Best practice reliability and maintenance processes
Elements of asset management best practice
Auditing performance
Overview of TPM, RCM, BCM, QCM, and other asset management buzzword
Open discussion sessions

Training Methodology

Pathways Training and consulting adopts the newest techniques of human resources Training and consulting and, with the following:

  • Theoretical lectures are delivered via PowerPoint and visual displays (videos and short films)
  • Making scientific evaluation to the trainee (before and after)
  • Brainstorming and role-playing
  • Using case studies related to the scientific material being delivered and the trainees' work.
  • The participants get the scientific and practical material printed and on CDs and Flash memories.
  • Preparing records and reports of the participants' attendance and results, with a general evaluation of the training program.
  • A group of the best trainers and experts in all fields and specialties professionally prepares the scientific material.
  • After finishing the course, the participants get certificates of attendance signed, certified, and issued by pathways Training and consulting.
  • Our training programs start at 9:00 o'clock in the morning and end at 2:00 in the afternoon, with snack buffet during the lectures.
  • Providing a lunch buffet during the training program period, with organizing a lunch party on the training program final day for taking some photos and certificate awarding.
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Riyadh

2750$

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Istanbul

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Jeddah

2750$

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Manama

2750$

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27, Apr 2025 01, May 2025

Beirut

2750$

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Singapore

4950$

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11, May 2025 15, May 2025

Kuwait

2750$

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18, May 2025 22, May 2025

DUBAI

2950$

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26, May 2025 30, May 2025

Kuala Lumpur

3250$

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01, Jun 2025 05, Jun 2025

Amman

2750$

Effective Global Procurement

08, Jun 2025 12, Jun 2025

Marrakesh

2950$

Effective Global Procurement

15, Jun 2025 19, Jun 2025

Sharm ElShaikh

2750$

Effective Global Procurement

22, Jun 2025 26, Jun 2025

Doha

3500$

Effective Global Procurement

29, Jun 2025 03, Jul 2025

Casablanca

2950$

Effective Global Procurement

06, Jul 2025 10, Jul 2025

Riyadh

2750$

Effective Global Procurement

07, Jul 2025 11, Jul 2025

Milan

4750$

Effective Global Procurement

14, Jul 2025 18, Jul 2025

Istanbul

2950$

Effective Global Procurement

20, Jul 2025 24, Jul 2025

Jeddah

2750$

Effective Global Procurement

27, Jul 2025 31, Jul 2025

Manama

2750$

Effective Global Procurement

03, Aug 2025 07, Aug 2025

Beirut

2750$

Effective Global Procurement

11, Aug 2025 15, Aug 2025

Singapore

4950$

Effective Global Procurement

17, Aug 2025 21, Aug 2025

Kuwait

2750$

Effective Global Procurement

25, Aug 2025 29, Aug 2025

Berlin

4750$

Effective Global Procurement

01, Sep 2025 05, Sep 2025

Brussels

4750$

Effective Global Procurement

01, Sep 2025 05, Sep 2025

Milan

4750$

Effective Global Procurement

08, Sep 2025 12, Sep 2025

Zurich

4750$

Effective Global Procurement

15, Sep 2025 19, Sep 2025

Trabzon

3500$

Effective Global Procurement

22, Sep 2025 26, Sep 2025

Beijing

4950$

Effective Global Procurement

29, Sep 2025 03, Oct 2025

Amsterdam

4750$

Effective Global Procurement

06, Oct 2025 10, Oct 2025

Bangkok

4950$

Effective Global Procurement

12, Oct 2025 16, Oct 2025

Muscat

2750$

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19, Oct 2025 23, Oct 2025

Khobar

2750$

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20, Oct 2025 24, Oct 2025

Toronto

5500$

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27, Oct 2025 31, Oct 2025

Barcelona

4750$

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03, Nov 2025 07, Nov 2025

London

4750$

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09, Nov 2025 13, Nov 2025

Cairo

2450$

Effective Global Procurement

17, Nov 2025 21, Nov 2025

Geneva

4750$

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24, Nov 2025 28, Nov 2025

Vienna

4750$

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01, Dec 2025 05, Dec 2025

Munich

4750$

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08, Dec 2025 12, Dec 2025

Prague

4750$

Effective Global Procurement

15, Dec 2025 19, Dec 2025

Rome

4750$

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22, Dec 2025 26, Dec 2025

Jakarta

3500$

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29, Dec 2025 02, Jan 2026

Rome

4750$

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