Procurement and Supply chain

• IS and IT Auditors
• Financial and Operational Auditors
• Accounting Professionals
• Quality Assurance Professionals
• Systems Control Officers
• Risk Management Officers
• Analysts
• Investigators
• Compliance Officers
• Anyone interested in learning to use PSC

This course covers the entire procurement and supply chain process. It is intended to enable the participants to link the stages in the procurement and supply chain processes.

• Introduction
  • The scope of procurement and supply chain management
  • Key terms and concepts in procurement and supply chain management
  • The traditional rights of procurement
  • The principles of procurement
  • Procurement and supply chain best practices
  • The contribution of the procurement function
  • Stakeholders involved at each of the procurement processes
  • Procurement process
  • Supply chain management processes

• Trends in procurement and supply chain management
  • Evolution of procurement and supply chain
  • Major trends in procurement
  • Increased interest in the field of procurement and supply chain management

• Procurement Environment
  • Internal and external procurement environment
  • stakeholders in the internal and external procurement environment

• Procurement and other functions
  • Relating procurement to other functions of an organization
  • Procurement and other supply chain activities (upstream and downstream)

• Sourcing process
  • Needs identification
  • Meaning and types of statement of requirements (specifications, terms of reference, and scope of works)
  • Specifications writing
  • Developing terms, procurement planning

• Selection of providers
  • Purpose of selection
  • Selection criteria
  • Methods of selection
  • Constituting selection team, working methodologies
  • Evaluation reports
  • Contracting order function
  • Methods of placing orders(manual and electronic),expediting, managing the order cycle time

• Performance management
  • Importance of measuring contract performance
  • Measures of performance
  • Performance reporting