Course Snapshots

Supply Chain Training

Strategic Purchasing - One Day

Strategic planning is fundamental to any business and each operational department must develop an implementation support plan in order to deliver the focused corporate targets.

Strategic procurement planning falls into 3 interrelated categories:
Long-term company aims-the vision and values
Medium-term management plans involving clear commitments
Current operational performance targets and deliverables

This workshop invites participant organizations to position themselves against the leadership criteria developed by the top performers. The process drills down through the layers of supply chain management to test for alignment with corporate goals and understand the processes required to drive them.
The development of supply chain strategic plans with team ownership and commitment is a strong success factor. The teamwork sessions introduce the building process of strategic plans and then the subsequent management and measurement of the elements within an ever changing operational environment. This demands a positive level of team working skill and a subsequent management time investment to ensure that the chosen objectives are achieved.

Implementing Sustainable Procurement - One Day

Sustainability-meeting the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations to meet their own needs- underpins a wide area of public policy at all levels of government and within the private sector. Company reporting is beginning to be widened to take account of the organisation’s acceptance of responsibility for fair trading, environmental impacts and health and safety of their products and services. The Eco Management & Audit Scheme (EMAS) is widely recognised as a vehicle for change and this together with ISO 14001 and whole life costing has placed procurement in the front line of implementing sustainable supply chains.

Meeting the Sustainability Challenge - One Day

Sustainable procurement has become the cornerstone of corporate and social responsibility although there are almost as many definitions of what it means as there are consultants.

But the concept of sustainability underpins a wide area of public policy at all levels of government and within the private sector. Company reporting has been widened to take account of the organisation’s acceptance of responsibility for fair trading, environmental impacts and health and even more on the safety of their products and services. The Eco Management & Audit Scheme (EMAS) is widely recognised as a vehicle for change and this together with ISO 14001 and improving standards has put procurement in the front line of implementing sustainable supply chains. We get to grips from the outset with the practicalities of introducing sustainability thinking into the purchase to pay process.