Advanced Procurement and Contract Management

Course Contents, Concepts and Issues:

Procurement Management

Purchasing Scope and Development

• The Changing Role of Purchasing and Supply
• Proactive Purchasing
• Procurement Positioning
• Total Acquisition Cost and Total Cost Ownership
• Non-Manufacturing Organisations
• The Supply Chain Concept
• Purchasing Development
• Best Practices in Strategic Supply Management

Strategic Procurement and Supply Chain Management

• Strategic Procurement
• The Concept of Strategy
• The Mission Statement
• Levels of Strategy
• Category Management
• Strategic Management
• Strategic Analysis
• Strategic Development
• Strategic Implementation
• Objectives for Purchasing
• Strategies and Their Scope
• Selecting a Strategy
• Effective Supply and Market Strategy
• Purchasing and Supply in the Different Types of Organization
• Organisation of the Activity
• Purchasing In the Organisation Structure
• Purchasing Devolution
• The Supply Chain
• Improving Efficiency of the Supply Chain
• Type of Supply Chain
• Strategic Development of Purchasing

Outsourcing

• Outsourcing
• Outsourcing Methodologies
• Outsourcing –Pitfalls
• How to Avoid Pitfalls

Quality Management

• What Is Quality?
• Statistical Process Control
• Taguchi Methods for the Off-Line Control of Quality
• Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
• Specification
• Producing a Specification
• Early Supplier Involvement
• Concurrent Engineering
• Standardisation
• Supplier Assessment
• Economics of Quality
• Quality Circles
• The Seven Wastes
• Value Analysis/Value Engineering
• Make-Or-Buy Decision

Inventory Management

• Provisioning Systems
• Order Quantities and Stock Control
• Order Quantities for Production
• Materials Requirements Planning (MRP)
• Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP2)
• Distribution Resource Planning (DRP)
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
• Just-In-Time (JIT)
• Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)
• Late Customisation

Contract Management

• Contract Management and Administration
• The Contracting Process
• Understanding Risks, Reward and Contract Targeting
• Methods of Tendering
• Types of Contract
• Contract Administration
• Relationship Management and Contractor Motivation
• Contract Performance
• Variations and Claims
• Legal Aspect of Contract Management