Course Objectives

• Familiarizing participants with modern concepts and advanced technology in the planning, organizing and evaluating of procurement systems and procurement and supply methods.
• Introducing the complementary relationship between procurement management and other managements in the organizations..
• Enabling participants to acquire the specifying sources skills, defining criteria for suppliers evaluation and classifying them and making decision on the appropriate source selection.
• Enabling participants to acquire the modern skills of effective negotiation with suppliers in key areas of procurement processes.
• Providing participants with practical experiences and expertise in updating procurement systems, suppliers evaluation and technical negotiation processes.

Who Should Attend?

• Directors of procurement and supply departments, heads of procurement, warehousing and stores sections, supervisors of internal and external procurement units, warehouses and stores and storekeepers of warehouses and inventory, all employees working in warehouses and stores, and personnel who are prepared and rehabilitated them to perform procurement and warehousing functions.

Course Schedule

Procurement and quality management systems

• The nature, management and objectives of the Procurement Unit.
• Procurement management and its relationship to total quality systems.
• Terms of reference and responsibilities for procurement officials.
• Technical skills for procurement officials.
• Planning and programming of procurement requirements and material requirements
• Methods of securing and transporting materials and their financial implications and identifying sources of procurement..
• Policies, methods and techniques of procurement procedures.
• Records and documentary cycle for procurement and scheduling systems.
• Fundamentals of internal and external procurement.

Procurement and managing suppliers

• The concept, importance and classifications of suppliers.
• Identifying specifications and requirements..
• Compatibility between quality standards and purchase costs.
• Supplier-handling tactic.
• Negotiation process with the suppliers.
• Methods and techniques of evaluating suppliers.
• Recent trends in the rehabilitation and evaluation of suppliers.

Procurement and negotiation skills

• The importance and forms of negotiation in procurement processes.
• Managing the negotiating process and negotiating parties.
• Procurement negotiation processes.
• Feasibility of procurement negotiation processes.
• The economic aspects of the procurement negotiation process.
• Difficulties facing the procurement negotiation process.
• Negotiation of local or foreign purchases.
• Negotiation of amendment to the purchasing agreements.

Material and supply management

• Procurement of materials and supply chain.
• Elements and components of the supply system..
• The activities of the supply system.
• Total quality management and material management.
• Designing quality and cost.
• Quality management applications on material management.
• Quality impact on material management trends.

Supply Chain applications

• Supply Chain model applications (supply).
• Supply Chain strategies applications.
• Managing the human component of the procurement and storage apparatus.
• Preparing and rehabilitating procurement and supply staff.
• Restructuring the human component of the procurement and storage apparatus.
• Specifications/expertise/skills/abilities and competencies required.
• Measuring the performance of procurement and provisioning personnel.