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Gain an understanding of the skills you need to have in order to manage stakeholders effectively. Learn how to map out your stakeholders and understand their interests, influences, power levels and other factors that can affect team working. You'll also gain insights into techniques for influencing stakeholders through communication strategies, negotiation techniques and dealing with resistance.

Learn to define Strategic Cost Management and its significance within an organization. By breaking down product or service costs into key elements, explore the process steps for Strategic Cost Management in a procurement program. Additionally, identify the necessary support and resources required to achieve successful Strategic Cost Management. Throughout the topic, you'll collect, analyze, and apply cost data principles to create accurate cost breakdowns and evaluate opportunities for savings and added value.

In this course you will learn about Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) and how to identify and implement the most effective relationships with each strategic supplier, in order to deliver the best overall strategic value for the buying organization.

Explore strategies to effectively manage risks involved in global sourcing, including understanding risk, identifying and assessing potential risks associated with global sourcing, the importance of having a good supply chain network, leveraging supplier relationships, and investing in technologies that enable better visibility into your supply chain operations. Learn how to create contingency plans and build an effective governance structure around your global procurement strategy.

Explore local sourcing and the potential risks involved. Learn about best practices for managing supply risk, including how to identify and mitigate supplier risk, assess financial stability of suppliers, develop strategies for diversifying supplies, evaluate different types of contractual agreements, and manage quality assurance processes.

Explore supplier development in practice by learning what Supplier Development is, and why it's important, which suppliers to develop, and how to use the PDCA cycle for successful implementation.

Gain an understanding of the key aspects of creating, managing, and monitoring a supplier diversity program. Explore the legislation, laws and policies relevant to diversity programs as well as how to set up and operate one.

Explore the processes and techniques needed for supplier-enabled innovation by learning when it's best to use innovation instead of leverage and how to seek out potential suppliers who can provide this value.

Deep dive into the concept of SMART supplier performance measurement. Explore how to establish meaningful KPIs, availability, quality and delivery metrics, and capture meaningful data in order to help you improve your supplier performance management.

Gain an understanding of the Supplier Preferences table and how it can be used for Market and Portfolio Analysis. In addition, learn how to position your suppliers, define supplier relationships, and manage them effectively.

Master the analysis, preference and matrix techniques needed for successful supplier relationships. Learn about relationship analysis, portfolio analysis, supplier preference analysis, the combined relationship matrix and evaluation and lessons learned review.

Discover the fundamentals of Supplier Relationship Management. In addition, learn about the process for conducting SRM, supplier identification, supplier segmentation, and how to identify strategic suppliers.

Learn how to properly run a Request for Proposal (RFP) process, facilitating the awarding of business with the best quality, service and total cost. Explore other techniques such as analyzing competitor data, researching potential suppliers and carrying out interviews with potential candidates.

Explore the economics of demand uncertainty and how it drives supply chain dynamics. Learn about various causes that lead to a bullwhip effect such as order batching, price fluctuations and customer behavior.

Deep dive into the causes and effects of the Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chain Dynamics. In addition, gain a deeper understanding of how the bullwhip effect can cause higher costs and lost revenue in your supply chain, including what movements, delays and amplifications exist within the system, why they happen and how to recognize them in your own supply chain.

Explore the concrete steps that your organization needs to follow to eliminate the Bullwhip effect. Take the lead within your supply chain to eliminate stockouts and get inventory under control.

Explore the dynamic intersection of demand and supply within the realm of supply chain management with our comprehensive course on Demand and Supply Planning Metrics. This course is designed to equip you with the essential knowledge and skills needed to optimize and synchronize the intricate processes of forecasting, demand planning, and supply chain operations.

Understand the fundamentals of supply chain security and its role in reducing risk and protecting operations. Learn to identify physical, digital, and human-related threats, conduct risk assessments, and prioritize vulnerabilities. Explore layered security strategies such as audits, encryption, and GPS tracking, and enhance supplier collaboration to improve compliance. Monitor and refine your security approach with audits and incident planning. Discover how technologies like blockchain, IoT, and AI can strengthen visibility, resilience, and readiness for future challenges.