CIPS Organisational Certification

Raising global standards of purchasing & supply management

Our organisational certification programme is an established benchmark of excellence in organisational procurement competence. Certification ensures that your organisation maintains excellent procurement standards and delivers benefits to your bottom line year on year.

Our programme is endorsed by the Institute of Quality Assurance (IQA) and when you meet our certification standard for Excellence in Purchasing Policies and Procedures, you will also meet the purchasing requirements of ISO 9001:2000.

We have developed our organisational certification programme with input from purchasing professionals in the pharmaceutical, utilities, transport, oil/gas, finance, manufacturing and public sectors. This was supported by collaboration with leading academics in order to ensure that certification delivers real value to organisations in any sector.

Interactive appraisal and learning experience

Many organisations experience gaps in their knowledge or struggle to implement changes due to difficulties with resource or time pressures. Our organisational certification programme helps to fill any knowledge gaps by providing a comprehensive and systematic review of your policies, procedures and processes. It brings focus on to the importance of your procurement function and provides an independent standard of effectiveness.

Many organisations worldwide are implementing our organisational certification programme to improve and integrate their processes within their entire supply chain. This leads to bottom line improvements as purchasing policies and procedures are refined and maintained.

We have two awards which recognise procurement excellence:

CIPS Organisational Certification Excellence in Procurement Policies and Procedures (PPP)

Certification Excellence in PPP assesses the standards of purchasing and supply policies and procedures designed and implemented by your organisation’s procurement function.

CIPS Certification Excellence in Strategic Procurement Capabilities (SPC)

Certification Excellence in SPC assesses your organisation’s strategic procurement capability and its role as a key driver in the success of the future of your business.