Practical Training Courses
Advanced Category Management
Programme
Procurement Training-Advanced Category Management
This course will provide a requisite tool set for managing supplier organisations’ contribution to your organisational objectives.
Programme Outline
• How to undertake a market assessment for a category
• How to identify interdependencies between internal and external providers
• How to leverage supplier management resourcing to improve internal operations
• How to construct a category plan
• How to measure category performance
Benefits to the Delegates
The attendees will be able to:
- Apply the stages of Category Management in their day to day roles
- Work systematically through a sequence of process steps to make better informed decisions regarding the categories of spend
- Learn and implement a structured and consistent process when dealing with suppliers
- Be exposed to best practice Category Management
Benefits to the Organisation
The sponsoring organisation will benefit by:
- Identification of savings opportunities within Category
- Improved bottom line performance through proactive TCO management
- Improved and embedded high quality category management process
- Establishment of a common purpose and intent, aligning suppliers and the value they deliver to your organisations business requirements
- A transparent approach to Category Management enabling all sourcing and supplier management decisions to be reviewed
Who should attend
Those responsible for managing the external resources that contribute in a material way to the core operations of an organisation.
Dates, locations & fees
This course has now finished for 2010, please contact training@cipsa.com.au for more information or in-company training solutions.
Course Fees
Members $1800.00 + GST ($1980.00 inc. GST)
Non Members $2000.00 + GST ($2200.00 inc. GST) ) * ^
*Please note fees are charged in AUD and GST does not apply in New Zealand.
^ Non member rates include annual CIPS Affiliate membership, applicable to new members only.