International procurement is a complex process, which has the potential to provide many benefits to the organization in the form of lower prices, higher quality and improved supplier performance. In this programme you will learn how to:
Develop your management skills.
Build your staff into a dynamic team.
Develop a strategic mind-set.
Negotiate in a dynamic fashion.
Target vision of excellence for your operation.
Locate, evaluate and manage international sources.
Implement best practices in international procurement.
Effectively draft an international procurement contract.
Manage the international movement of materials.
Examine management best practices.
Appraise powerful techniques for building teamwork.
Scrutinize important aspects of strategic thinking.
Evaluate the key elements of operational excellence.
Examine how to locate and evaluate new sources internationally.
Consider the impact of the internet on purchasing operations.
Review best practices in international purchasing.
Analyse ways of managing suppliers more effectively.
Study new concepts in inventory management.
Explore productive negotiating skills.
Understand the proper drafting of international contracts.
Plan for effective international transportation management.
Professionals Seeking Career Advancement
Career ChangersConsultants and Advisors
Business Owners and Entrepreneurs
Operations Managers
Sourcing Managers
Supply Chain Managers
Procurement Professionals
The importance of socio-technical management.
Techniques for effective communication.
Motivating for results.
Enhancing your coaching skills.
Empowering employees for improved performance.
Characteristics of a successful manager.
Obtaining the benefits of teamwork.
Characteristics of ineffective teams.
Characteristics of effective teams.
Managing conflict in a productive manner.
Understanding team member styles.
Creating a virtual team.
Analyzing the strategic planning process.
Achieving competitive advantage.
Utilizing dynamic SWOT analysis.
Focusing on vision and mission.
The importance of contingency planning.
Examples of strategic success and failure.
Gaining insight into the negotiating process.
Characteristics of an effective negotiator.
Developing negotiating strategies.
Employing persuasive negotiation techniques.
Achieving the benefits of effective negotiating.
Negotiation exercises.
The Malcolm Baldrige quality award-standard of excellence.
Lessons from the best performing companies.
Benchmarking your operation against the best.
Creating employee commitment.
Managing continuous improvement.
Creating the high performance organization.
Globalization and its effects.
Utilizing the internet for procurement.
Modern buying practices.
Assuring supplier performance.
Methods for determining price.
Procurement’s role in the organization.
Procurement performance measurement.
Long term contract pricing formulas.
International buying operations.
International counter-trade.
Achieving the benefits of global procurement.
Overcoming the difficulties of international buying.
The program opens by exploring the key leadership skills and how to apply them in the organization. Using this initial analysis, the program explores managing yourself as a leader, leading a team, creating breakthroughs through innovative leadership, communicating effectively with others, and imparting leadership values to your team members. All attendees will return to their organizations better equipped to meet the challenges and demands of leadership.
This is a fast-paced, dynamic, and highly informative advanced leadership program. It seeks to develop and enhance your personal, team, and organizational leadership skills.
This seminar is designed to provide practicing or potential leaders with the knowledge and skills required by the role. This leadership programme enables your leaders to critically explore the key idea that the most important function of a leader is to help their people move through the stages of team development.
Alliances in business are a natural route for development – but not all contracting relationships can truly be seen as alliances. A good, trusting and open relationship is essential for a long-term and successful alliance – and this needs to be practiced by the negotiators involved. Negotiation is inevitably at the heart of every process to achieve what you want, whether in an agreement, bargaining for an item, or closing a deal. At the end of each negotiation, the goal is to seek a win/win outcome – an essential characteristic of long-lasting alliances. This course provides an essential framework for effective negotiation — which will be vital for building and exploiting an alliance - from building the relationship, critical thinking to prioritize goals
Health, Safety, and Environmental Management Systems are based on a proactive process for incidents prevention as well as reactive monitoring of performance. Risk assessment is required to be applied to all activities that impact on health & safety, production, asset, environment, and the Company reputation.
All businesses in the current environment need a competitive edge. This can be gained through innovative and exciting products and services, or effective and efficient world-class employees. Top performing organizations are passionate about their most valuable resource - their staff. To maintain their high standards a large proportion of their time and energy is spent on continuous professional development, not only of their employees but of their business. This course investigates the tried and trusted management processes, procedures, and methodology used by many blue-chip companies. They use the tools to develop high levels of performance from their staff. This in turn ensures the future and reputation of their companies through innovative development, service, and evaluation. This course offers participants practical solutions to work-related issues.
Enterprise Risk Management known as (ERM) has evolved considerably since the seventies. From simply 'buying' insurance, it has now grown in importance to become a prime function in many organizations as part of a bigger system known as Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) which starts with corporate governance and ends with compliance. ERM is the function of studying the risks that may hinder a corporation's ability to achieve its goals and then deciding how to overcome those risks. Studies regarding risk management were done by different organizations, including ISO which issued ISO 31000 on risk management. However, the most accepted ERM system is the one designed by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). This system, which is the one covered in this course, teaches the steps needed to control risk. It starts with the evaluation of the internal environment and the setting of objectives which are, mainly, a result of the tone at the top of the organization, the directives from corporate governance as well as the vision, mission, and corporate strategies. Then, the course goes through the steps management needs to consider in order to identify and assess risk and decide on proper risk responses and controls. The course ends with how to monitor, communicate, and report risk. In addition, the course looks at risk in different organizational areas such as strategy, reporting, compliance, operations, financial and physical risk as well as risk in different industries.