Introduction
The Mini MBA for Procurement Professionals course equips either seasoned or rising star procurement professionals to shift from administrative, cost-focused to value driven thinking, aligning procurement strategy with business objectives and lead the procurement function to become a competitive edge by maximizing benefits received in return for spend. Through a mix of real-world examples, procurement KPI benchmarking, frameworks, and strategic models, participants will learn to raise the bar of the procurement function’s contribution with quantified cash and non-cash value.
This training course aims at widening the perspectives of delegates with global and cross-industry procurement best practice, lessons learned, and success factors experienced by the biggest multinational companies in the world. A real-life procurement transformation journey of one of the biggest multinational companies will be shared. With the rapid development of AI and digitalization of business activities, organisations need procurement leaders who can go beyond transactional buying to deliver sustained competitive advantage. Modern day procurement function must deliver tangible and visible value to justify its existence.
This GLOMACS Mini MBA For Procurement Professional: Procurement Best Practices training course will highlight:
- Understanding of strategic leadership in the economic context for your business
- Developing a robust and future oriented strategy
- Enhancing costs awareness within the value chain and understanding the impact on the bottom line
- Defining and apply sourcing strategies in line with your organizational goals and objectives
- Building collaboration and long term supplier relationships
Objectives
At the end of this training course, you will learn to:
- Establish procurement as a competitive edge
- Understand Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Apply best-practice in end-to-end procurement
- Strategic contract and supplier management
- To understand the benefits of strategies that create and lead change
Training Methodology
This Mini MBA for Procurement Professionals training course applies a practical and highly engaging approach, combining expert-led presentations with interactive group discussions, real world case studies, and applied exercises. Participants will work through proven procurement models, analyse current practices, and explore strategic frameworks to ensure learning is both actionable and aligned with organisational needs.
Organisational Impact
The Organisation will have the following benefits;
- Elevate procurement’s role to competitive edge
- Understanding of strategic leadership in the economic context for your business
- Enhancing costs awareness within the value chain and understanding the impact on the bottom line
- Apply powerful interpersonal techniques to improve communication, and stakeholder management
- Defining and apply sourcing strategies in line with your organizational goals and objectives
- Building collaboration and long term supplier relationships
Personal Impact
At the end of this training course, the participants will gain the following;
- Widened horizon to cross-industry procurement performance
- Improved strategic competence in procurement
- Enhanced leverage in supplier negotiations and decision-making processes
- Clearer understanding of value-based procurement
- Increased confidence in managing procurement risks
- Broader career opportunities in strategic procurement roles
Who should Attend?
This GLOMACS Mini MBA For Procurement Professional: Procurement Best Practices training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- CFO
- Experienced Procurement Personnel
- Senior Procurement Leaders
- Line Managers
- Departmental Heads
- Tendering & Contracts Professionals
- Consultants
- Management trainees who aspire to be procurement leader
Procurement Leadership
- The perceived and actual value of procurement to a corporate
- Management vs. leadership
- Transformational leadership in procurement
- World-Class Procurement Performance Benchmarking
- Understanding the interrelated factors that impact procurement
Strategic Procurement Best Practice
- Early understanding of business requirement big picture
- Spend analysis
- Supply market analysis
- Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) modelling
- Market approach
- Formulate the best-fit contracting strategy
Financial Impact of Procurement Along the Value Chain
- From strategic planning to the operating plan
- Budgeting and costing along the value chain
- Fixed vs. variable costs
- Contribution margin
- Direct vs. indirect costs
- Performance measurement and impact on the bottom line
Global Sourcing and Critical Procurement Strategies
- Defining procurement excellence
- Using international supply chains for competitive advantage
- Developing a framework for managing contract risk
- Local Content requirements in the world
- Best practice in local content procurement
Developing and Maintaining Long-term Supplier Relationships
- Negotiation with strategic supplier
- Turning vendors into partners
- Relationship management – Suppliers and stakeholders
- Performance improvement metrics
- The service level agreement framework
- Applying the right incentives for the right outcome
- Upon successful completion of this training course, GLOMACS Certificate will be awarded to the delegates. Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE): In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, one CPE credit is granted per 50 minutes of attendance