Inventory tied up in healthcare procurement is capital the organisation cannot use elsewhere. Warehouse performance on this aspect of procurement and supply operations is decided by layout and discipline long before technology. What blocks progress on this strand of procurement and supply operations is usually unclear ownership rather than unclear intent. The programme converts healthcare procurement from an area of general awareness into a set of repeatable practices. The programme suits teams tackling this aspect of procurement and supply operations together as readily as individuals attending alone. Across sectors, teams that rehearse the procurement and supply operations discipline outperform teams that only plan it. Exercises escalate in difficulty, ending with the ambiguous situations that make healthcare procurement hard in practice. The result is the confidence to make and defend decisions about the practice within procurement and supply operations under scrutiny. The final module sets out how progress on this strand of procurement and supply operations will be evidenced six months later.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Design receiving, storage and picking flows supporting healthcare procurement.
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Apply the correct customs, international delivery terms and documentation treatment to healthcare procurement.
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Build a supplier performance regime covering healthcare procurement with real consequences.
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Prepare the audit trail for every award decision under healthcare procurement.
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Apply a repeatable review cycle to healthcare procurement and act on what it produces.
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Present the case for investment in healthcare procurement in terms that a finance function will accept.
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Reduce avoidable variation in how healthcare procurement is carried out across teams.
Who Should Attend
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Those responsible for briefing external stakeholders on healthcare procurement.
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Internal auditors examining controls over healthcare procurement.
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Quality staff verifying that healthcare procurement performs as designed.
