Advanced Procurement Certificate (Certificate Course)
Fact sheet
Graduation
Zertifikat
Taught language
Englisch
Specialization
Betriebswirtschaft
Program Emphasis
Procurement
Course options
Certificate program
Locations
Mannheim
Contact
Contact person
MBS Open Courses & Certificates Team
MBS Open Courses & Certificates Team
(Re)Learn Procurement with the Latest Insights from Research and Current Best Practice
Today, most organizations consider the management of their suppliers and supply chains as a key strategic issue that requires top management attention – and highly skilled employees that can take on the expanded responsibilities to drive value in their organizations. Brush up your knowledge of the theoretical foundations and learn current best practices, techniques, and tools to generate value through strategic procurement and sourcing. The Advanced Procurement Certificate course is suitable for both experienced specialists and managers taking on responsibilities in procurement, but also procurement business partners involved in sourcing decisions.
Today, most organizations consider the management of their suppliers and supply chains as a key strategic issue that requires top management attention – and highly skilled employees that can take on the expanded responsibilities to drive value in their organizations. Brush up your knowledge of the theoretical foundations and learn current best practices, techniques, and tools to generate value through strategic procurement and sourcing. The Advanced Procurement Certificate course is suitable for both experienced specialists and managers taking on responsibilities in procurement, but also procurement business partners involved in sourcing decisions.
Program Emphasis
- Learn how to analyze, develop, and justify procurement strategy
- Use frameworks to diagnose strategy and capability gaps
- Analyze make-or-buy problems in a structured fashion Understand coordination and motivation problems in the procurement context and how to tackle them
- Design appropriate operating models and governance mechanisms
- Discuss the problem of performance trade-offs and be able to provide justifications to stakeholders
- Learn how to interlock procurement strategy, category strategies, and supplier strategies
- Get to know state-of-the-art approaches to category management and optimization
- Discuss current research on supply base segmentation, buyer-supplier relationships, and interfirm governance mechanisms
- Revisit frameworks and best practices for demand and supply analysis
- How to move to demand and supply analysis to business awards
- Understand healthy competition in sourcing and learn how to organize it in sourcing projects
- Learn how to use market competition in bilateral negotiations with alternatives
- Navigate the broad landscape of negotiation theory and practice
