Procurement, Contract & Supply Chain Management

• Overview of the Supply Chain concept
• Focus areas of Supply Chain Management
• Types of Supply Chains
• The role of Procurement in the Supply Chain
• Evolution of buying into Supply Management
• Evolutionary stages To World Class Procurement
• Objectively measuring the performance of the Supply Chain

• Vertical integration, partnerships, and strategic alliances
• Involving end-users in the procurement process
• Developing a successful supplier strategy
• Crafting a contracting strategy
• Coordination of purchasing requirements
• Transfer pricing and inter-company trade
• Purchasing organization

Tactical Decisions in Purchasing

• Early Supplier Involvement (ESI)
• Value analysis
• Supplier selection
• Supplier quality assurance & auditing
• Supplier rating
• Contract management
• Purchasing information system
• Purchasing policies and procedures
• Staffing issues
• Commodity teams

• The ordering process
• Expediting
• Invoice verification
• Workload management
• Document handling
• Effectively Dealing with small value purchases
• Developing Spend Profiles and the ABC Analysis

• The four V’s of Supply Chain Management
• Creating a value proposition
• SCM Planning process
• Four different SCM scenarios
• Using ERP to effectively spare part requirements

• Why the status quo is no longer good enough
• Determining the readiness of an organization for change
• Implementing a change management project
  • Determining what to change
  • Determining what to change to
  • Determining what is required to implement the change
• Putting forward a business case to top management