Procurement and Business Strategy

This training workshop will demonstrate how procurement should be organized depends substantially on how procurement behaves or is perceived. Is it there to “serve the factory” and carry out a range of clerical and transactional tasks? Or is it there fundamentally with a commercial orientation, to reduce business costs through negotiating discounts and inviting tenders? Is it there as a co-ordinator of purchasing across the enterprise, driving synergies and managing those suppliers who can serve multiple divisions? Is procurement in place to deliver cross-functional purchasing through internal or external co-ordination, e.g. through early supplier involvement? The development of Procurement and supply management from a transactional function through to having a value chain orientation is what this workshop is about.

• The development path for procurement from transactional to value chain management
• Procurement Organization, structure and job functions

This training workshop is suitable for:

• Procurement Officers, analysts and managers.
• Contract Engineers and analysts.
• Quantity Surveyors
• Commercial advisers
• Procurement team members
• General managers
• Executives tasked with managing contracts.
• Contract Administrators
• Anyone who wishes to have a good understanding and involvement in purchasing activities.

Upon completion of this training workshop, you will understand:

• The principle features of business strategy.
• How procurement can contribute to the business strategy.
• How to organize procurement to deliver its desired functions.