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Collaboration, Cooperation, Innovation for External Resource Management Course
No public date is currently scheduled for this course. We can provide a tailored course at a time and date that suits you. If interested please contact us.
Duration: 1 day
Prerequisites:
A working knowledge of supply chain management, especially in a procurement or purchasing role.
Complete Pre-Course Material: will be provided to you once you have enrolled.
Price: 1,620 CHF
This course will help to progress your career and serve as a boost to your development as a knowledgeable and effective manager.
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Join our Collaboration, Cooperation, Innovation for External Resource Management Course
The value of relationships count in today’s fast-paced and disrupted business environment, where partnerships, future efficiencies and risk mitigation are just as vital a measure of an organisation’s maturing procurement organisation as overhead reduction.
The reality of a more interconnected world requires companies to engage in greater collaboration and cooperation both internally and externally in order to maintain their growth by creating greater opportunities for innovation, resulting in better products and services, brought to market quicker than ever.
Global companies, with thousands of suppliers, particularly need to manage their supplier base appropriately and effectively by working collaboratively with these external partners and employing the strategic planning approach of Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) to drive down costs, reduce risk to their organisation and release the potential for innovation and greater value.
This can be achieved by companies taking a more integrated approach to supply-chain optimization, redesigning their buyer-supplier processes together to reduce waste and redundant effort, or jointly purchasing raw materials. Additionally, they can collaborate in forecasting, planning, and capacity management—thereby improving service levels, mitigating risks, and strengthening the combined supply chain.
When evaluating the relationship between suppliers and procurement various models and tools can be used to find the strengths, and areas of weakness. Such models should be flexible, non-rigid self-assessment tools, containing a wide range of criteria on best practice for a company’s management and what constitutes a good organisation.
This course is aimed at:
- Supply Chain professionals in procurement and purchasing
- Professionals in Quality Management.
- Any professional who would like to learn how to use and apply relationship evaluation models and how it can benefit your organization.
- Anyone managing external resources who are new to SRM, or need a refresher course.
This course will help you to:
Become an expert and an authority in your team in this crucial area of the supply chain.
Become a better manager
Increase your confidence.
Smart, inclusive, holistic management strategies.
CERTIFICATION
Get Certified with our Collaboration, Cooperation, Innovation for External Resource Management Course.
An organisation’s supplier base represents a rich resource of potential value, but also of risk. By equipping your teams with the knowledge and skills gained from our course: assessing and selecting the best potential suppliers; using a SRM toolkit for evaluating, monitoring, improving supplier relationships; learning how to appropriately segment your supply base so that key strategic suppliers and supply chains can be prioritised, and managed through effective, strong collaborative relationships, your organisation will be able to harness untapped value, reduce risk, drive innovation and maintain a competitive advantage.
Course Content
- Learn how to distinguish innnovative suppliers and Supplier Learning Groups.
- The course will consider methods and activities to manage suppliers, such as supplier selection methods, and explore supplier development practices.
- Learn how to use and apply relationship evaluation models to your organization for managing external resources and explore how these can be used to benefit your organisation.
- By the end of the course you should be able to conduct a diagnostic check of your organisation to expose weaknesses and determine strengths.
- Introduction to Supplier Relationship Management, definitions, and benefits to your organization, considering how to design and implement a SRM program.
- Learn about SRM methods and practice, the essential tools required for your SRM toolkit and how to use them in order to assess and select new suppliers, improve your current supplier base using effective communication strategies to achieve close collaboration and cooperation.
- Learn about the future development of SRM
- Learn supplier segmentation practices, key and strategic account management how to leverage value creation in the supplier base by exploring effective value drivers.
- Learn the important role that procurement and purchasing plays in the Supply Chain in selecting the right suppliers and forging successful strategic collaborative relationships in managing the supplier base.
- Using the information that you have acquired, evaluate the condition of your own organization’s Supplier Relationship Management program to determine needs against overall strategic goals, opportunities for improvement.
- This course will cover Supplier Selection and Evaluation, Contract Management, Quality & Risk Management, and Ethics.
Practical Information
Want to know more?
The course can take place in two ways.
(1) If you contact us and tell us you want a training in a particular area we cover.
(2) When we have a course running which will be displayed above in a calendar format.
The course can either be in-person or virtual via video conferencing.
The course can take place in two ways.
(1) If you contact us and tell us you want a training in a particular area we cover.
(2) When we have a course running which will be displayed above in a calendar format.
The course can either be in-person or virtual via video conferencing.