Design a practical operating method for centralised group procurement that fits the organisation's size and maturity.
Designing Centralised Procurement Strategies for Multi-Branch Groups
A concise, decision-focused programme covering centralised group procurement end to end.
📍 Cairo🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Inventory tied up in centralised group procurement is capital the organisation cannot use elsewhere. Most procurement disputes about the practice within procurement and supply operations originate in a specification written too quickly. Post-incident reviews keep identifying weaknesses in this part of procurement and supply operations that were visible long before the incident. Progress on centralised group procurement is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. Participants finish able to explain this strand of procurement and supply operations to a non-specialist audience without losing precision. The content is relevant to those who own the procurement and supply operations capability and to those who are held accountable for its results. Exercises escalate in difficulty, ending with the ambiguous situations that make centralised group procurement hard in practice. The course sets out a working method for this part of procurement and supply operations that participants can apply the week they return. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on this area of procurement and supply operations ready to put in front of a decision maker.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Build a supplier performance regime covering centralised group procurement with real consequences.
Translate policy on centralised group procurement into procedures that hold up under day-to-day pressure.
Integrate centralised group procurement with demand forecasting and production planning.
Segment spend on centralised group procurement and apply a sourcing strategy proportionate to risk and value.
Plan the disposal or return route for obsolete and damaged stock in centralised group procurement.
Identify the failure points in centralised group procurement most likely to cause loss, and control them first.
Who Should Attend
Finance staff reviewing spend and working capital in centralised group procurement.
Project and programme managers whose delivery depends on centralised group procurement.
Warehouse and stores managers operating centralised group procurement.
Contract managers administering agreements covering centralised group procurement.
Public sector tendering officers applying centralised group procurement under procurement regulation.
Planning staff whose forecasts and budgets are affected by centralised group procurement.
Course Modules
Centralised group procurement: measurement, savings validation and reporting
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Documentation and customs treatment for centralised group procurement
- Collect evidence on the present handling of centralised group procurement before proposing changes.
- Define measurable service levels in the contract covering centralised group procurement.
- Map the physical flow of centralised group procurement through receiving, storage and dispatch.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of centralised group procurement current.
Session 2Building the method for centralised group procurement step by step
- Apply ethical and environmental criteria to supplier selection in centralised group procurement.
- Identify single-source dependencies in centralised group procurement and cost the alternatives.
- Negotiate payment terms on centralised group procurement without pushing suppliers into distress.
- Agree the escalation route when supply of centralised group procurement is disrupted.
Centralised group procurement: sourcing strategy and market approach
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The hard cases in centralised group procurement and how to reason about them
- Identify the data already collected that bears on centralised group procurement.
- Check the delivery terms and customs classification applied to centralised group procurement.
- Segment spend on centralised group procurement by value and supply risk before choosing an approach.
- Map the handovers in centralised group procurement between functions and secure them.
Session 2Proving the savings claimed on centralised group procurement were real
- Build the competence framework that supports centralised group procurement.
- Set out how exceptions to centralised group procurement are requested and approved.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around centralised group procurement are understood.
- Identify slow-moving and obsolete stock inside centralised group procurement and decide its fate.
Centralised group procurement: supplier performance and relationship management
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The decisions in centralised group procurement that cannot be delegated
- Rehearse the briefing on centralised group procurement that would follow an incident.
- Assess supplier financial health for critical elements of centralised group procurement.
- Calculate reorder point and safety stock for each item in centralised group procurement.
- Check that centralised group procurement still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
Session 2Contract terms on centralised group procurement that survive execution
- Verify segregation between requisition, approval and receipt in centralised group procurement.
- Review the audit trail for the last three award decisions on centralised group procurement.
- Test the procedure for centralised group procurement against a realistic scenario.
- Verify six months later that changes to centralised group procurement have held.
Centralised group procurement: customs, documentation and cross-border movement
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Making supplier performance on centralised group procurement mean something
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about centralised group procurement.
- Set the consequence for failing service levels on centralised group procurement, and apply it.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for centralised group procurement.
- Write the specification for centralised group procurement so two suppliers would price it the same way.
Session 2The approval control on centralised group procurement that prevents fraud
- Close out actions on centralised group procurement rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
- Build the internal briefing that explains centralised group procurement to those affected.
- Estimate the resource centralised group procurement requires to run as designed.
- Set the stock count cycle for centralised group procurement and act on discrepancies.
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- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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