Training Course in Building High-Performing Procurement and Supply Chain Operations
1Summary
A company can have the best product in its market and still lose money every month for one simple reason: nobody is watching what gets bought, stored, and moved with enough discipline. Purchasing and supply chain teams sit at exactly that pressure point — balancing market demand, external variables, and the real stock sitting in the warehouse — and this Training Course in Building High-Performing Procurement and Supply Chain Operations from the Arab British Fellowship Training Academy is built around that responsibility.
Rather than treating procurement and supply chain management as two separate subjects, the course connects them the way they actually work inside a company: how a purchasing department calculates what to buy, how those purchases move through internal and international contracts, and how the wider supply chain links suppliers, storage, and customers into one performance system, governed by clear objectives, defined relationships, measurable standards, and total quality principles.
2Objectives and target group
Who Should Attend?
- Owners and senior managers of companies running active purchasing and supply operations.
- Managers of internal and international purchasing departments.
- Heads of supply, logistics and storage departments.
- Employees working within any purchasing, storage or supply chain function.
Knowledge and Benefits:
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Plan the company's purchasing needs practically and strategically, in line with market shifts and external variables.
- Manage the purchasing and storage departments as one connected function rather than two separate silos.
- Build a sufficient strategic inventory of resources and purchases and set up permanent stock-count schedules.
- Apply quality and excellence standards to procurement tools and supply chain mechanisms.
- Use supply chain performance procedures as a tool for making sound storage decisions.
- Handle surplus goods and stagnant inventory using modern disposal methods.
3Course Content
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Why Purchasing and Supply Performance Decide a Company's Bottom Line
- Definition and scope of supply management and its link to the purchasing function.
- Following up on general inventory and understanding the relationship between purchasing and supply departments.
- Ideal management of the purchasing department based on data and figures.
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Running the Purchasing Cycle: From Contract to Final Deal
- Executing international and internal procurement contracts and processes.
- Completing purchases after collecting cost data from other departments.
- Confirming and finalizing procurement deals within the company.
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Supply Chain Foundations: Objectives, Terms and Core Elements
- Objectives of supply and supply chain management.
- Key terminology and definitions for supply chain components.
- Core elements of supply and supply chain management.
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Types of Relationships Across the Supply Chain
- Types of relationships within supply chains.
- Traditional relationships linked to supply deals.
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Managing Internal and External Flow Strategies
- Strategies for handling flows within internal and external supply chains.
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Measuring and Building High-Performing Supply Chains
- Measures and performance standards for supply chains.
- Practical steps for creating effective supply chains.
- Leading an effective supply chain.
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Value Chain Management and Critical Success Factors
- Managing the value chain.
- Critical success factors for supply chain management.
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Embedding Total Quality Management in the Supply Chain
- The concept of a total quality management system within supply chain management.
- How quality evolves through total quality management.
- Sub-system elements of the quality management system in the supply chain.
- Execution procedures for total quality management in effective supply chains.
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Logistics, Supplier Selection and Evaluation Techniques
- Logistics, purchasing management, and supplier selection and evaluation.
- Final supplier selection methods: quantitative analysis, monetary value, and weighted scoring.