Strategic Management of Procurement and Global Supply Chains

Course Overview

Inventory tied up in strategic procurement and supply chains is capital the organisation cannot use elsewhere. Warehouse performance on supply chains is decided by layout and discipline long before technology. They gain the ability to sequence improvements to the wider procurement and supply operations agenda in an order their organisation can absorb. The programme works equally well for those formalising strategic procurement and supply chains for the first time and those improving an existing approach. Where the practice within procurement and supply operations is measured, it improves; where it is only discussed, it drifts. The programme is built to be used, and every section of supply chains it covers ends in something applicable. Participants apply strategic procurement and supply chains to their own supply function throughout, so the output is directly usable. Progress on supply chains is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. The programme closes with an action plan for the procurement and supply operations discipline that each participant writes for their own organisation.