Set inventory policy for category purchasing strategy: reorder points, safety stock and review cycles.
Designing Category Purchasing Strategies
Turn category purchasing strategy from a stated policy into a practice your organisation can evidence.
📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Savings claimed on category purchasing strategy at signature are frequently lost during execution. Single sourcing on the wider procurement and supply operations agenda looks efficient until the day it is not. Benchmarking exercises repeatedly place the practice within procurement and supply operations among the areas with the widest performance spread. Participants who influence category purchasing strategy without directly controlling it will find the content directly usable. The version of this part of procurement and supply operations described in the manual and the version practised on the floor tend to diverge over time. They leave able to brief senior management on this strand of procurement and supply operations in terms that support a decision. The programme is built to be used, and every section of category purchasing strategy it covers ends in something applicable. Sessions alternate between guided analysis of the procurement and supply operations capability and supervised application. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on this strand of procurement and supply operations ready to put in front of a decision maker.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Establish traceability from supplier through storage to point of use for category purchasing strategy.
Plan the disposal or return route for obsolete and damaged stock in category purchasing strategy.
Structure records of category purchasing strategy so that they answer the questions an auditor will actually ask.
Apply sustainability and ethical sourcing criteria to category purchasing strategy.
Review contracts and agreements for the obligations they create around category purchasing strategy.
Reduce avoidable variation in how category purchasing strategy is carried out across teams.
Who Should Attend
Members of committees that take decisions affecting category purchasing strategy.
Coordinators responsible for keeping records and documentation of category purchasing strategy current.
Inventory controllers managing stock within category purchasing strategy.
Logistics and distribution staff moving material in category purchasing strategy.
Public sector tendering officers applying category purchasing strategy under procurement regulation.
Internal auditors examining controls over category purchasing strategy.
Course Modules
Category purchasing strategy: inventory policy and working capital
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The hard cases in category purchasing strategy and how to reason about them
- Define acceptance criteria for category purchasing strategy in advance.
- Benchmark the organisation's category purchasing strategy against comparable operations.
- Distinguish symptoms from causes when category purchasing strategy underperforms.
- Identify slow-moving and obsolete stock inside category purchasing strategy and decide its fate.
Session 2What has to be agreed before work on category purchasing strategy starts
- Estimate the resource category purchasing strategy requires to run as designed.
- Apply ethical and environmental criteria to supplier selection in category purchasing strategy.
- Set the stock count cycle for category purchasing strategy and act on discrepancies.
- Name a single owner for each element of category purchasing strategy.
Category purchasing strategy: continuity, risk and single points of failure
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Laying out the warehouse around how category purchasing strategy actually moves
- Draft the minimum viable sourcing procedure for category purchasing strategy.
- Rehearse the briefing on category purchasing strategy that would follow an incident.
- Define the trigger that would require category purchasing strategy to be redesigned.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to category purchasing strategy.
Session 2Making supplier performance on category purchasing strategy mean something
- Record what was learned when category purchasing strategy did not go as planned.
- Set the consequence for failing service levels on category purchasing strategy, and apply it.
- Evaluate category purchasing strategy on total cost of ownership across the full life.
- Identify single-source dependencies in category purchasing strategy and cost the alternatives.
Category purchasing strategy: supplier evaluation, award and contract terms
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Getting other functions to support category purchasing strategy
- Build the competence framework that supports category purchasing strategy.
- Segment spend on category purchasing strategy by value and supply risk before choosing an approach.
- Establish the boundary of category purchasing strategy and record what sits outside it.
- Agree the escalation route when supply of category purchasing strategy is disrupted.
Session 2Writing a specification for category purchasing strategy suppliers can price accurately
- Calculate reorder point and safety stock for each item in category purchasing strategy.
- Check the delivery terms and customs classification applied to category purchasing strategy.
- Validate claimed savings on category purchasing strategy against actual invoiced spend.
- Review the audit trail for the last three award decisions on category purchasing strategy.
Category purchasing strategy: warehouse layout, flow and handling
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Setting reorder points and safety stock for category purchasing strategy
- Verify segregation between requisition, approval and receipt in category purchasing strategy.
- Write the specification for category purchasing strategy so two suppliers would price it the same way.
- Assess supplier financial health for critical elements of category purchasing strategy.
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to category purchasing strategy will be introduced.
Session 2The approval control on category purchasing strategy that prevents fraud
- Identify single points of dependency in category purchasing strategy and reduce them.
- Define measurable service levels in the contract covering category purchasing strategy.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about category purchasing strategy.
- Check that category purchasing strategy still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
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USD1,250
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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USD1,850
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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