Write a specification for procurement innovation and design thinking that suppliers can price without guessing.
Innovation in Procurement and Applying Design Thinking
A working programme in procurement innovation and design thinking for managers who have to deliver with existing resources.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Inventory tied up in procurement innovation and design thinking is capital the organisation cannot use elsewhere. Warehouse performance on design thinking is decided by layout and discipline long before technology. The programme uses small-group work so that each participant's treatment of this part of procurement and supply operations is examined, not just described. The level assumes working familiarity with the supply function but no prior formal training in procurement innovation and design thinking. Practitioner evidence points the same way: the wider procurement and supply operations agenda improves fastest where responsibility for it is named and owned. The programme takes participants through design thinking end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. Participants develop a defensible line of reasoning for the choices they make about procurement innovation and design thinking. Most organisations already have a policy on design thinking; far fewer can show it working. 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
Set the minimum documentation for design thinking that is genuinely necessary, and stop there.
Prepare a short, evidence-based briefing on procurement innovation and design thinking for senior management.
Recognise early indicators that design thinking is drifting away from its intended design.
Build a supplier performance regime covering procurement innovation and design thinking with real consequences.
Design receiving, storage and picking flows supporting design thinking.
Plan the disposal or return route for obsolete and damaged stock in procurement innovation and design thinking.
Who Should Attend
Contract managers administering agreements covering procurement innovation and design thinking.
Officers preparing reports on design thinking for boards or oversight committees.
Logistics and distribution staff moving material in procurement innovation and design thinking.
Staff seconded into improvement work on design thinking.
Internal auditors examining controls over procurement innovation and design thinking.
Supplier relationship managers developing partners in design thinking.
Course Modules
Procurement innovation and design thinking: supplier performance and relationship management
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Releasing working capital trapped in procurement innovation and design thinking
- Confirm traceability from supplier to point of use for procurement innovation and design thinking.
- Review whether design thinking is aligned with the objectives of the supply function.
- Set out the decisions in procurement innovation and design thinking that require sign-off and by whom.
- Set the review interval for design thinking and who attends.
Session 2Who answers for design thinking, and to whom
- Map the physical flow of procurement innovation and design thinking through receiving, storage and dispatch.
- Rehearse the briefing on design thinking that would follow an incident.
- Identify slow-moving and obsolete stock inside procurement innovation and design thinking and decide its fate.
- Verify segregation between requisition, approval and receipt in design thinking.
Design thinking: supplier evaluation, award and contract terms
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Choosing the right sourcing approach for design thinking
- Check the delivery terms and customs classification applied to procurement innovation and design thinking.
- Define measurable service levels in the contract covering design thinking.
- Build the internal briefing that explains procurement innovation and design thinking to those affected.
- Calculate reorder point and safety stock for each item in design thinking.
Session 2Closing out design thinking and capturing what was learned
- Identify the data already collected that bears on procurement innovation and design thinking.
- Benchmark the organisation's design thinking against comparable operations.
- Assess supplier financial health for critical elements of procurement innovation and design thinking.
- Negotiate payment terms on design thinking without pushing suppliers into distress.
Design thinking: controls, segregation and fraud prevention
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Writing a specification for design thinking suppliers can price accurately
- Validate claimed savings on procurement innovation and design thinking against actual invoiced spend.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in design thinking.
- Prepare the summary of procurement innovation and design thinking that senior management will read.
- Remove steps in design thinking that add effort without adding assurance.
Session 2Setting reorder points and safety stock for procurement innovation and design thinking
- Confirm that reporting on procurement innovation and design thinking reaches the people who can act.
- Set out how exceptions to design thinking are requested and approved.
- Verify six months later that changes to procurement innovation and design thinking have held.
- Write the specification for design thinking so two suppliers would price it the same way.
Design thinking: specification, requirement and demand
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Evaluating suppliers on design thinking beyond the lowest number
- Segment spend on procurement innovation and design thinking by value and supply risk before choosing an approach.
- Set the consequence for failing service levels on design thinking, and apply it.
- Reduce the variation in how procurement innovation and design thinking is carried out between teams.
- Identify single-source dependencies in design thinking and cost the alternatives.
Session 2Where design thinking typically breaks, and why
- Apply ethical and environmental criteria to supplier selection in procurement innovation and design thinking.
- Name a single owner for each element of design thinking.
- Set the stock count cycle for procurement innovation and design thinking and act on discrepancies.
- Record the rationale for each significant choice made about design thinking.
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At least 3 people
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
Gold Package
At least 3 people
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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