This new approach maximizes value from procurement by combining traditional techniques, with newer tools, techniques, and approaches. We will give an understanding of the Category Management methodology with the necessary working knowledge of how this approach can be used, and is now being used, by World Class companies.
This course shows how Category Management maximizes value from procurement by integrating supplier sourcing, supplier management, supplier development, and supplier relationship management.
Apply a thorough understanding of supply chain activities
Identify, analyze and evaluate procurement opportunities
Understand the key aspects in category management
Use tools and techniques
Make procurement and supply chain organizational improvements
Understand what drives your other supply chain players
Use analytical tools to identify procurement opportunities
Make cost and service improvements
Gain a framework for continual improvement
Use best in class practices like economic profit
Access these for value opportunities
Examine how to maximize value from procurement
Procurement Managers
Head of Logistics
Inventory Managers
Procurement Professionals
Supply Chains Professionals
Procurement and purchasing definitions
A vision for procurement
The 21st-century procurement challenge
Procurement and the Supply Chain
The 8 Supply Chain Rules
Supply chain excellence and shareholder value
Competitive advantage
The 2008 economic crisis and the consequences for the supply chain
Procurement structure options
Supply Chain Models and Types
The Global Supply Chain
Category Management definitions
The evolution of Category Management
Category grouping overview
The three aspects to be considered in category groups
Category Management structures
The procurement excellence roadmap
The Purchasing land Supplier loops
Why we should use Category Management
How category management improves the value
How category management builds from P2P and the procurement cycle
Integrating approaches
The two outcomes to maximize value from procurement
The value opportunities that come from using Category Management
Traditional purchasing revisited
The P2P and procurement cycle
Value and risk analysis
Kraljic matrix
The Category management and value opportunities
Volume concentration
Best price evaluation
Low-cost country sourcing
Supplier management objectives
Supplier customer connections
Supplier service
Supplier management and contract management
Best practice contract management
Supplier relationship management definitions and aims
Applying Supplier relationship management
Collaboration
Supplier development definitions and aims
Best practice in supplier development
Changed views and lessons
Benefits and improvements
The Category Management outcomes and value opportunities
Specification improvements
Joint process development and linking price with suppliers
Value chain disruption and managing supply chain risk
Best practice in supplier management
Common barriers and challenges
Internal conflicts
Perception of procurement
Lack of creativity
Skillsets
Trust
Fear of change
Overcoming such barriers
Best Practice in the implementation of new ideas
Understand the current situation
Key questions
Research and analysis
Design and improvement
Key questions
What needs doing
Plan the new processes and structures
What needs doing
Key questions
Operate and review the new processes
Key questions
What needs doing
Making strategy a continuous process
Supply chain futures, predictions and what needs to done
Agility
Network design
China supply chain effects
Going “Green”
Professional leaders/manager development
The 10 improvement for reengineering end to end supply chains
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This course is designed for IT professionals who are looking to take on the role of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) in an organization. The course will cover key concepts and skills in information security, including risk management, security governance, incident response, and compliance.
The Service Operation (SO) module is one of the certifications within the ITIL Service Lifecycle workstream. This module focuses on the principles, processes, operational activities, and functions that enable organizations and individuals to successfully manage how their products and services perform. These activities can also help improve their IT service management.
The SO module focuses on the coordination and execution of activities that enable the ongoing management and operation of the products or services developed or implemented during the service strategy, design, and transition phases of the IT Service Lifecycle as well as any technology and support resources that are used to deliver them.
The course covers management and control of activities and techniques that are documented in the ITIL Service Operation publication, but it does not provide the full detail of each supporting process. More information about these processes can be found in the Operational Support and Analysis module from the Service Capability workstream.
Understanding of Service Operation best practice enables organizations and IT teams to effectively sustain and maintain the products and services they develop and ensure that they provide efficient resources for their users.
The leadership bears new responsibilities and burdens posed by the successive challenges of change in the era of globalization, the communications revolution and the Internet sovereignty that have begun and will not end.
Together, these factors lead to the need to ascertain the readiness of the executive leader and his ability to deal with these challenges of a strategic nature and adapt them to serve the purposes, goals, and objectives of the institution and achieve its higher mission.