A Highly Interactive Training Course On

Trending the Industrial Revolution 4.0 through Supply Chain Excellence

The Challenge for the Millennium with the New Normal

10-14 Feb 2025
London
$5,950
12-16 May 2025
Dubai
$5,950
10-14 Aug 2025
Dubai
$5,950
27-31 Oct 2025
Dubai
$5,950
06-10 Jan 2025
Online
$3,950

Course Overview

Supply Chain Intelligence is all about enabling businesses to comprehensively monitor their supply chains, gain real-time performance insights, and achieve complete visibility throughout the process. This involves aligning user needs, business goals, and technological solutions to drive optimization. By understanding application category management, businesses can leverage a strategic approach to procurement that offers greater value beyond conventional sourcing methods.

In this context, "business partnering" has emerged as a key concept in Supplier Relationship Management. The ability to negotiate effectively and secure favorable deals is crucial for aligning with stakeholder requirements and developing long-term strategies for managing expenditures. This training course will evaluate the importance of Supply Chain Intelligence in business strategy.

This COPEX training course will feature:

  • Identification of new supply opportunities to allow the buyers to challenge their current sourcing strategies
  • improving strategic sourcing activities, moving the process beyond cost saving
  • Understanding stakeholder priorities and joint annual planning of category management and supplier management projects
  • Managing of supplier performance, ongoing value improvement and supplier relationship quality through business partnering
  • Demonstrate the Negotiation Skills are crucial to good deals

Training Objectives

By the end of this COPEX training course, participants will be able to:  

  • Relate People, Process and Technology in Supply Chain Intelligence
  • Evaluate the importance of Supply Chain Intelligence in business strategy
  • Analyze the importance of category management in supplier management
  • Employ the various strategies in negotiation skills to a Better Alternative to Negotiated Agreement
  • Discover the challenges in business partnering with “new normal” operations

Training Methodology

This COPEX training course will utilise Gagne’s nine steps of instructions, a proven adult learning technique to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. The training course is highly interactive and will prompt delegates to reflect on current practices and on their team goals. The tutor will guide and facilitate learning using a wide variety of methods including direct input, discussions, and case studies.

 

Who should Attend?

This COPEX training course is aimed at supply chain management, operations and professionals who want to learn about new trends and technologies that will benefit organization’s growth. 

This COPEX training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Procurement, buyers and purchasing professionals in disciplines such as ICT, operations, marketing, finance, who wish to learn more about supply chain intelligence and procurement management.
  • Those who need to maximize value from procurement and the supply chain
  • Those who need an understanding of the relationships between risk, cost and service in supply chains

Training Outline

Day One: Analyzing Supply Chain Intelligence
  • Interpret Supply Chain management mission and vision
  • Interpret Supply Chain Models and Types
  • Relate Blockchain Application in the Industrial Revolution 4.0
  • Apply The Internet of Things (IOT) in supply chain Models
  • Interpret Risks in the Supply Chain
  • Compare current application of Blockchain in the different industries and its benefits
Day Two:  Employing the Key Tools for Managing Strategic Procurement through Categorization
  • Show the stages to effective Purchasing through Procurement
  • Discover the importance of Category Management in Procurement
  • Practice Supplier Positioning for effective performance
  • Use Categorization for efficient Supplier Management
  • Apply the appropriate criteria for Supplier Selection
  • Use Cost Reduction Initiatives to improve the bottom line of the organization
Day Three:  Maximizing Value through Negotiations in effective contracts (Deals)
  • Prepare the steps in Negotiation
  • Interpret the different strategies in Negotiation
  • Apply Better Alternatives to Negotiated Agreements to conclude effective contracts
  • Relate collaborative supplier management
  • Apply important contractual terms in pre-negotiations
  • Develop a Supplier Category Management through negotiation in Procurement
Day Four:  Setting the Strategic Direction in Sourcing
  • Discover how strategic sourcing impacts Procurement
  • Apply the steps in strategic Sourcing to improve Supplier selection
  • Categorise the Purchasing Department Strategic Plan
  • Analyze Total Cost Modelling of the Supply Chain
  • Interpret Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Procurement
  • Discover how supplier involvement enhances productivity
Day Five:  Supplier Relationship Management through Business Partnering
  • Discover the hierarchy of Suppliers in the supply Channel
  • Relate the suppliers risk management in business partnering
  • Preparing the cost of product for market data gathering
  • Relate RFI and RFP in gathering supplier market information
  • Formulate a supplier partnership relations Management
  • Develop a plan for effective partnership

Certificates

  •  COPEX Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

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What is included in the training fee?

Published training course fees are inclusive of the training venue, training manual, writing materials, lunch and coffee breaks with refreshments over the entire duration of the training course.

What are the available payment methods?

The training course fee can be settled by either:

  • Bank transfer
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How many hours per day, and what are the timings of your training courses?

Our training courses will run for 5 hours per day. The standard daily timing is from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm including the coffee/tea breaks and lunch.

Where do you usually hold your training courses?

Our training courses courses are being held at five-star hotels in prime and iconic destinations across the globe. Cities such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dubai, Geneva, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, London, Houston, New York, Paris, Vienna, Zurich, etc.

Do you provide hotel booking assistance to your delegates?

Once officially registered, we can assist by providing the corporate rates provided by the hotel where the training course will be conducted. Early confirmation will enable us to secure the room at reduced rates

In case of failure to attend, what is your cancellation policy?

Our cancellation policy varies depending on the circumstances presented. Generally, cancellations must be initiated in formal writing at least 14 days prior to the commencement date of the training course. Further, the option to shift an existing registration to another training course on a later date is possible. Otherwise, a full refund will be initiated.

What will I receive after the training course?

Delegates who will attend and successfully complete the training course will earn a COPEX Certificate of Completion. This certification is designed to validate the successful knowledge transfer, and that the desired learning objectives and outcomes to further advance your professional competency are achieved.