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- Level I: Specialist
Ideal for individual contributors with limited decision-making authority.
- Expected Duration: 1 month.
- Key Learnings:
- Procurement transactional / operational activities (source-to-pay) and e-procurement: single sourcing, competitive bidding, bid evaluation and analysis, negotiation, PO/contract awarding, payment, end-of-contract evaluation.
- Solid understanding of contractual terms and conditions: general vs special.
- Internal customer facing, effective communication and coordination with internal and external stakeholders.
- Essentials of supplier management.
- Common procurement risks and mitigation measures.
- Essentials of data analytics for procurement.
- Electronic and physical documentation and filing (for audit and non-audit purposes).
- Level II: Expert
Ideal for mid-level procurement managers seeking to emerge as go-to subject matter experts WITHIN their respective organizations.
- Expected Duration: 2-3 months.
- Key Learnings:
In-depth knowledge on procurement activities at operational and strategic levels; e.g.:
- Category management for assigned categories.
- Cost savings and cost avoidance in the managed categories.
- Demand management, SOW/Specifications development.
- Advanced negotiation management (negotiation strategy development.. etc).
- Advanced third party risk management.
- Strategic sourcing: market research, supplier pool management and expansion, e-sourcing, Supplier prequalification and assessment using supplier scorecards.. etc.
- Influencing internal customer (works all the time!).
- Multi-year procurement strategy setup and execution.
- Procurement team management.
- Spend data analytics for procurement managers.
- Using KPIs and benchmarking.
- Contracts redlining and revision.
- Procurement reports and presentations: prepare summaries on procurement projects, highlight achievements.. etc.
- Level III: Master
Ideal for those aspiring to be bottom line optimizers, game-changers through the scientific art of spend management.
- Expected Duration: 3-6 months.
- Key Learnings:
Here you will learn how to:
- Roadmap and lead transformation, drive change in any organization, any culture, any location, any economy.
- Do it the consulting way:
- See the bigger picture: how the organizational structure, processes, culture and context interact and affect the procurement function.
- Perform data analytics, procurement process mapping and automation, and internal controls, templates and manual development.
- Identify opportunities for cost saving and process improvement, solve complex problems, and set KPIs.
- Adapt your procurement expertise to any industry you find yourself in.
- Persuasion and presentation skills: how and what to communicate with every group of audience at every level (internal customers, internal stakeholders, suppliers, top management.. etc).
- Conduct global supplier assessment and develop supplier scorecards.
- Empower your team members and make them experts in procurement.
- Tailored Hourly Sessions
- Looking for answers to certain questions? Have a specific problem(s) to solve?
We offer hourly consulting sessions to answer any questions and solve any problems you may have in spend management.
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- Email: info@uprocure.us
- Phone: +1 (650) 466-6998