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Supplier Relationship Management – Intensive

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An intensive Supplier Relationship Management course designed to help practitioners manage important suppliers and develop specific interventions to achieve business goals. Based around the Positive Purchasing ‘Orchestra of SRM®, and 5A™ Strategic Collaborative Relationship process.

This course will enable you to identify those suppliers who are important and why, and equip you with the tools and approaches to determine and effect the right interventions with the right suppliers.

Supplier Relationship Management course - classroom and online training - Intensive

Course Content

Introduction to Supplier Relationship Management and segmenting the supply base

  • The buyer/supplier relationships
  • Why we need an approach for key suppliers and the value possible from a well-managed relationship
  • Supplier segmentation and what makes some suppliers important or strategic

Measuring the supplier and driving improvement

  • The seller’s perspective and agenda
  • Supplier Performance Measurement and developing KPIs
  • The STPDR process for driving supplier improvements

Managing the supplier

  • Contract management
  • Managing relationships with suppliers (businesswide) and supplier interface mapping

Strategic collaborative relationships

  • Strategic Collaborative Relationships and how to manage them
  • Creating joint working and collaboration

Learning objectives

By the end of this course, delegates will be able to:

  • Describe what makes some suppliers more important than others
  • Describe the different approaches and types of intervention for important suppliers
  • Apply a series of approaches to better manage a supplier
  • Apply simple contract management principles
  • Conduct a supplier review meeting
  • Manage supplier performance and deal with issues or the need for improvement
  • Develop joint working approaches for Strategic Collaborative Relationships to collaborate on key initiatives
  • To identify how a strategic supplier can help drive business growth or create competitive advantage
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Course Catalogue

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