Country Partners

About Harley Reed

CIPS partnered with procurement and professional services provider Harley Reed in 2017 to offer training, advisory and procurement excellence support for organisations across West Africa.

Operating in the UK and across Africa, Harley Reed is a professional services organisation specialising in procurement, supply chain, finance, and marketing. With offices in Ghana, Nigeria and Ivory Coast in the region, Harley Reed delivers a full suite of CIPS solutions for regional organisations in English and French. Solutions include:

• Skills Programmes (English and French)
• Procurement Competency Assessment (English and French)
• Practitioner and Advanced Practitioner Corporate Award Applied Learning training
• Procurement Excellence Diagnostic Services
• Procurement Excellence Programme

On an annual basis, Harley Reed offers syndicated programmes on a virtual basis for candidates across the region, whilst also running physical in-house skills and applied learning programmes for corporate clients.

About Profitia

The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) UK, partnered with procurement and professional services advisory PROFITIA Management Consultants based in Warsaw, Poland in 2014. Profitia offers training, talent development and procurement excellence support for organisations with procurement and supply chain professionals in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe.

Established in 2010, PROFITIA is the leader of procurement consultancy in Poland. With a strong strategic background. PROFITIA contributed to the first cohort of the CIPS Corporate Award (Advanced Practitioner) in Poland in 2018. PROFITIA has a proven track record in delivering Procurement Excellence Programme for many of the largest companies in the Polish market.

PROFITIA helps their clients to solve challenges related to category management, definition of proper procurement process and right positioning of procurement function within the organisation.

Currently, PROFITIA has a strong clientele base of approximately 100 companies across industries including oil & gas, retail, construction, foodstuff production, entertainment, health services etc.

Informed Decisions GmbH

Dr Thierry Fausten founded Informed Decisions GmbH in 2018, after 22 years leading and executing management transformation and performance improvement activities in Global 150 automotive and pharma companies.

Informed Decisions GmbH is based in Basel, Switzerland. As CIPS Country Partner for Switzerland, it promotes the services of CIPS for Business to support the development of Procurement & Supply Management organizations, their practice, and their team members. Its customers are mostly multi-billion firms in the business-to-business sector.

The most popular services are online competence assessment (TNA, SGA), guided-learning Digital Academy, and tutor-led Skills Training. The functional excellence Procurement Excellence Program is also gaining traction. Dr Fausten routinely executes training and consulting activities and develops tailored products on demand. He also performs academic work with leading international institutions to prepare the next generations of practitioners and leaders.

Dr Fausten was awarded the degree of Doctor of Business Administration by Cranfield University School of Management and holds an Executive MBA from ESCP Europe. He also keeps his MCIPS certification to Chartered status.

By O Group

CIPS has partnered with purchasing training and consulting organisation By.O Group to serve procurement and supply professionals in France, Belgium and French-speaking Switzerland.

By.O Group is an international consulting firm specializing in the development of successful & sustainable economic sectors and B2B ecosystems.

Their clients are major international groups and public sector organizations from all business sectors. This multi-sector consulting experience enables them to bring the best of each sector and procurement practice.

About SCMPC

The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS), UK partnered in 2004 with procurement and professional services provider SCM Professional Centre Sdn Bhd (SCMPC), Malaysia to offer training and procurement excellence support for organisations with procurement and supply chain professionals in Malaysia and the Southeast Asia region.

SCMPC is one of the pioneer and leading service providers of both academic and professional programmes in procurement & supply in this region. SCMPC had produced the first batch of the CIPS Corporate Award (Advanced Practitioner) graduates in Asia in 2018. The learners were sponsored by a Government-Linked Company (GLC) in Malaysia. To-date, SCMPC has conducted 9 Intakes of the CIPS Corporate Award.

SCMPC also has a proven track record in delivering Procurement and Supply Chain Management academic and professional certification programmes which included Professional Diploma, Bachelor Degree and Master Degree in collaboration with local public as well as foreign institutions of higher learning.

To-date, SCMPC has a strong clientele base of approximately 100 companies not only from Malaysia but also from Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Brunei and Singapore.

National Institute of Supply Chain Leaders (NISCL)

CIPS formed an exclusive partnership with the National Institute of Supply Chain Leaders (NISCL) in 2024. NISCL now offers dual membership of NISCL and CIPS at a single, unified rate. NISCL will also deliver CIPS training and development programmes which can lead to a dual designation of MCIPS and NISCL-CSCL to procurement and supply chain professionals and procurement excellence and advisory services to organisations.

About National Institute of Supply Chain leaders

National Institute of Supply Chain Leaders (NISCL) is one of Canada's largest communities for supply chain professionals, with 4,000+ members and a broader community of 12,000+ supply chain professionals. They aim to enhance employer recognition for the supply chain profession by developing functional and leadership excellence.

Anchored by a legacy of 35 years and fuelled by a vision that has the future of the supply chain at its core, NISCL is committed to strengthening the supply chain network, which embodies the end-to-end supply chain and its key functions.