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Overview

Many IT providers now find themselves managing more suppliers' employees than staff of their own.  Indeed, it is argued with the increasing popularity of service integration approaches that the informatics professional of the future will need to have supplier management high on their skillset.  This course is designed to understand the complex world of selecting, managing and integrating suppliers to provide better end to end information services. 

Audience

The ideal candidates are team leader / management level who own or manage supplier relationships whether in IT, business or procurement areas.

Skills Gained

Understand the drivers in procurement activity and the role that procurement plays in supplier management
To encourage organisations to “Think like a Supplier” to develop better relationships and improve consistency of outcomes
Introduce the concept of Supplier Relationship Management and explore its key elements
Develop methods for improving Supplier Management
Understand the concepts and challenges presented by SIAM

Prerequisites

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Outline

Procurement as part of an integrated supply chain:
To understand the role the procurement activity plays in supplier management
To review risks when choosing a supplier
To introduce Kraljic's matrices and their use to categorise supply chains activity
Investigate procurement policies derived from Kraljic matrices
Introduce a brief overview of the procurement process cycle
Understand how procurement works with supplier management
Understand the “6 rights” of procurement
Introduce the concept of supplier service
Supplier management from the perspective of the supplier:
Investigate how power will affect the supplier / customer dynamic
To understand the characteristics suppliers and buyers / customers look for in each other
Investigate possible drivers for supplier attitudes by examining pricing
To look at ways to “health check” your supplier relationships
Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) as a discipline:
To define supplier relationship management (SRM)
To uncover the benefits of good SRM
To introduce the key stages in implementing and managing SRM
Discover what good SRM looks like
Introduce the KPIs and balanced scorecard methods of monitoring and managing suppliers
Investigate the importance of supplier meetings
Understand how to benchmark suppliers
Implementing and improving supplier management:
Define the concept of supplier development
To understand the reasons to develop suppliers
To investigate the categorisation and selection of suppliers for developing
To introduce models for relationship progression and development
To investigate how trust and culture effect supplier development
Service Integration and Management (SIAM):
Understand the key elements of SIAM

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Supplier Management Practitioner

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