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Transforming a Procurement Function: Strategic Procurement Master

An Interactive 5-Day Training Course

Transforming a Procurement Function: Strategic Procurement Master

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Course Summary

This training course equips procurement professionals to shift from administrative, cost-focused to value driven thinking, aligning procurement strategy with business objectives and upgrading the procurement function to profit booster. Through a mix of real-world examples, frameworks, and strategic models, participants will learn to lead procurement transformation with confidence and expertise. This training course aims at widening the perspectives of delegates with global and cross-industry procurement transformation journeys, lessons learned, and success factors experienced by the biggest multinational companies in the world.

 The participants will get hands-on with proven methodology and tools to perform a gaps analysis, preparing a business case for change, design targeted stakeholders management plan, multi-level communication plan, project governance, risk mitigation plan so as to implement a successful transformation project. 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 training course will highlight:

  • What is the actual and perceived value procurement in an organization?
  • Procurement performance benchmarking
  • How the biggest multinationals and even governments have transformed their procurement?
  • Is it worth investing in a transformation?
  • Best practices and lessons learned in a transformation project
Course Outline
Day 1

Articulating the Value Proposition of Procurement to a Corporate

  • The perceived and actual value of procurement to a corporate
  • World-Class Procurement Performance Benchmarking
  • Balanced Scorecard to Reflect Procurement Performance
  • Typical Procurement Organizational Structures
  • Popular Source-To-Pay and Contract Management Systems
  • Private and Public Procurement Policies
Day 2

Tools and Techniques in E2E Strategic Category Management

  • Classifying 3rd Party Spend into Categories
  • Collect and Understand Business Requirements
  • Supply Market Analysis
  • Supply Chain Cost Modelling
  • Market Approaches
  • Best-Fit Contracting Strategy
  • Contract Management
Day 3

Supplier Relationship Management and Risk Mitigation

  • Supplier performance management tools
  • Building supplier collaboration and partnerships
  • Risk identification and mitigation strategies
  • Contract management integration with category strategy
  • Handling supplier exits and transition planning
  • Disruption response planning and resilience building
Day 4

Making a Case for Transformation

  • Conduct a Gap Analysis
  • Create the Vision & Mission Statement
  • Compare the As-Is, and To-Be states in People, Process, and Systems
  • Specify the Deliverables and Milestones of the Transformation
  • Calculate the Resources and Time Needed for the Transformation
  • Determine Return on Investment (ROI)
Day 5

Preparing for a Transformation Project

  • Design Transformation Project Governance and Team Structure
  • Identify Stakeholders and create Stakeholders Management Plan
  • Create Risks Mitigation Plan for the Project
  • Formulate Communication Plan
  • Design a One-Page Project Charter
  • Influencing Skills
Certificates
  • Upon successful completion of the classroom-based 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
  • Upon successful completion of the online training course, a GLOMACS Certificate will be awarded to all delegates. Guided Learning Hours – In accordance with ISO 9001:2015–certified quality management standards, one Guided Learning Hour is awarded for every 60 minutes of attendance.
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Saudi GLOMACS enables professionals and organisations to strengthen leadership, capability, and long-term excellence through consistently high-quality learning experiences.

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