Successfully Manage Procurement Contracts and Vendors
This workshop develops fundamental procurement process knowledge and skills that you can apply immediately in all aspects of effective business and project procurement. Learn a step-by-step process for converting business and/or project needs into outsourced goods and services. Select the best possible vendors and manage stakeholders involved in the supply chain.
The course is aligned to the Project Management Institute’s (PMI®) standards.
Takeaways
- Identify stakeholder expectations, and convert project needs into contract requirements
- Create vendor selection criteria and follow a structured approach to short-listing and selecting vendors
- Conduct an effective bidders’ conference
- Strengthen your negotiating techniques to achieve “win-win” outcomes
- Monitor and control vendor performance, to ensure requirement standards are met
- Amend contracts and manage changes that occur during the procurement process
- Maintain productive working relationships with suppliers
- Reduce the potential for disputes and legal action
Course Content
- Procurement management framework: procurement life cycle, key roles, procurement organizations, contract definitions and purposes, contract types, risk transfer, common constraints and legal issues
- Planning procurements: building your evaluation team, needs analysis, stakeholder expectations and requirements mapping, developing the procurement management plan and procurement Statement of Works, identifying vendors, drafting legal tendering documents, defining selection criteria and weights, creating the Vendor Evaluation Model
- Conducting procurements: the bidders’ conference, evaluation techniques, short-listing and selecting vendors, ensuring due diligence and an equitable process, negotiating
- Administering procurements: managing vendor performance and relationships, amending contracts and managing change, the dispute process
- Closing procurements: auditing, settling contracts, early termination
Special Features
The action-learning format features group discussion and simulated exercises in “real-world” project environments. Working in teams, you will apply the tools and techniques you are learning, and experience the process of collaborative planning first-hand.
Audience
The workshop is intended for anyone involved in procurement: i.e. purchasing managers and agents, those involved in the supply chain, project managers, team leaders, vendor or product evaluation/selection team members and program managers who want to put the concepts and techniques of effective contracting into practice.
“Dayo was an excellent presenter, knowledgeable with extensive real-life experience. He was open to questions and discussion as required. I would be more than pleased to take another course taught by him!”
“An excellent overview of how to run a fair, equitable process where due diligence can be illustrated to keep you out of legal hot water.”
“This program exceeded my expectations. I learned practical, useful methods from an expert in the field that I can use with confidence.”
Eric
Provoke Consulting
How to Apply
Fee: N150, 000 only
Included in program fee*:
- Tuition
- All program materials and supplies
- Completion certificate
- Class-day meals (breakfast, lunch and breaks)
Date: Sep 20 -22, 2017
Time: 9am – 5pm
Enquiries on Venue and Resource persons:
Contact: braingro@yahoo.com
Call: 0803-403-4195, 0808-436-9290