Procurement Training for High-Performing Teams
Our procurement training academy supports every procurement role, across all industries, at scale. From Senior Buyers, to Contract and Category Managers, our unique approach creates personalized, continuous learning journeys tailored to each individual’s role and skill level.
Procurement Training Based on Key Competencies
Your supply chain doesn’t need more theory, it needs people who can make faster decisions, spot risk early, and drive performance. That’s why our procurement training courses are built around real-world competencies, not abstract outcomes.
Sustainability
Sustainability should be built into everyday procurement decisions. This competency helps learners embed ESG thinking into sourcing strategies, supplier choices, and cost evaluations - without compromising value or resilience.
Category Management Training
Take a strategic approach to procurement by empowering your organization to segment business spend into key areas with similar products.
Buying & Merchandising
Learn how to plan and manage successful promotional campaigns, select products, build ranges, measure success and develop pricing and ethical strategies.
Contract and Supplier Management
Develop the skills and knowledge to administer contracts and manage contract risks, work effectively with key stakeholders and improve overall supplier performance.
Digital Procurement
Understand how the latest digital technologies are enabling high-performing procurement teams to reduce administration, increase compliance and improve spend under management.
Legal and Regulatory
Master the legal and regulatory frameworks that impact organizations every day from contract laws, guidelines and regulations that govern buying goods, works and services from your suppliers.
Negotiation
Develop the critical skills procurement professionals need to succeed at the negotiating table, master the core strategies and principles and leverage the latest behavioral techniques such as cognitive bias, Game Theory and NLP.
Procurement Strategy
Understand how to develop a procurement vision and mission statement that delivers sustainable value and learn how to turn your vision into a functioning strategy.
Sourcing
Develop the critical skills, know-how and techniques to master sourcing from running RFI and RFP’s to conducting market analysis, selecting suppliers and managing projects.
Finance Management Training
Learn how to effectively plan, manage, and control business costs through a cost management system. Develop a total cost of ownership approach and understand how to calculate cost breakdowns.
Operational Procurement
Understand the Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) process, achieving compliance targets by reducing “Maverick Buying”, learn how to improve cost per transaction and use tools such as e-procurement, VMI and purchase cards.
Project Management
Understand the critical role of the project manager in forming a highly optimized procurement team. Learn about building time and resource plans, project governance, business cases, establishing project controls and effective stakeholder management.
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Learn MoreHow Our Procurement Training Works
Our procurement training is built for seamless rollout at scale, delivering measurable impact for both learners and businesses. Once deployed, our intelligent platform, SDX, guides each learner through the Review, Learn, Insight cycle: beginning with a skills assessment, moving into a personalized learning plan, and concluding with real-time insights that link individual progress to business performance.
Set-up
Configured to competency frameworks - customer competency frameworks are reviewed and mapped to our standard or custom roles.
Review
Following a comprehensive skills assessment, every learner gets a personalised learning plan, matched to their role and skill level.
Learn
Created by experts, our practical, relevant supply chain content is delivered in engaging and memorable formats, designed for busy professionals.
Insight
Managers can track progress, spot gaps and demonstrate impact with deep analytics, intuitive dashboards and real-time results.
Certify
Learners earn internationally recognized certifications, aligned to their level of course completion and accredited by leading industry bodies.
From Theory to Practice
Our eLearning is built for application, not just awareness. Procurement professionals don’t just absorb concepts, they actively apply them through hands-on tasks, ready-to-use tools, and guided exercises that build confidence and real capability.
Practical Tasks
Learners get hands-on with realistic, role-specific activities - from drafting supplier communications to using AI tools like ChatGPT to streamline RFP creation or contract reviews. Step-by-step visuals and guided prompts ensure they develop skills they can immediately put into action.
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Guided Calculations
Learners don’t just watch - they calculate. We break down complex formulas step by step, then have them apply those calculations through practical tasks based on real-world scenarios. Whether it’s total cost of ownership, savings tracking, or cost avoidance metrics, they build the confidence to work with numbers and make informed sourcing decisions.
Useful Frameworks
We give learners practical frameworks they can rely on to make smart decisions in everyday procurement scenarios. From supplier scorecards to category strategy models, these tools help structure thinking, clarify trade-offs, and support confident, value-driven decisions.
Retention Tests
Concepts are reinforced through interactive tasks that test understanding in applied scenarios. From identifying the right inventory strategy to solving real-time supply bottlenecks, learners prove they can turn theory into action.
Congrats!
You’re ready to apply these skills with confidence.
What Happens When Teams Get the Tools They Need
Grow Talent Faster
Tailor learner journeys to each individual’s job role and knowledge level, following a comprehensive and continual skill-based assessment.
Increase Operational Efficiency
Realize significant efficiency gains across supply chain operations, driving cost optimization and reducing carbon output.
Promote Best Practice
Embed a deep understanding of best practice throughout the corporation, ensuring all team members know and can adapt to standard ways of working.
Reduce Business Risk
Improve team compliance, ensuring staff are up to date with global trade and regulatory standards, avoiding costly fines, delays and reputational damage.
Retain and Motivate Teams
Help learners feel great about their role & their future, helping staff retention and accelerating careers.
Meet Global Standards
Gain internationally recognized certifications, with multilingual support, to meet global standards.
Quantify Training Impact
Make smarter decisions with data that tracks knowledge application, identifies gaps, and demonstrates business impact.
Enable Business Transformation
Take the team on your transformation journey, whether it’s a centralized restructure, digitalization or sustainability improvements.
Procurement Training Certifications
Accredited by the International Federation of Purchasing and Supply Management (IFPSM) and endorsed by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK (CILT (UK), Skill Dynamics delivers two internationally recognised procurement certifications; Certified Procurement Professional and Certified Advanced Procurement Professional. As well as a certificate, learners receive a digital badge to promote their qualification online.
Practical Content, Developed By Procurement Professionals
Every piece of content is crafted by seasoned professionals who have extensive, hands-on experience in senior procurement roles. Our network of in-house and external subject matter experts, ensures that all training reflects the realities of modern businesses.
Howard Price, Procurement Academy, Subject Matter Expert
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, learners receive a certificate upon completion. But more importantly, they walk away with practical skills they can use immediately, whether that’s running a more strategic sourcing process or negotiating more effectively. It’s about capability, not just credentials.
A lot of procurement training is theoretical or too high-level. Ours is different. It’s role-based, built by practitioners, and designed to help teams perform better on the job, from tactical buying to strategic supplier management. It’s hands-on, relevant, and it sticks.
Absolutely. Whether you’ve got a centralized team, category managers, buyers, or contract specialists, we can align the content and learning paths to fit your organization’s structure and maturity level. It’s built around your world.
Very quickly. Once we understand your needs, our team can have the platform branded, configured, and ready to launch, usually within days. It’s all built to minimize effort on your end.
Yes. You’ll get dashboards that show engagement, progress, and application of skills - like improved sourcing decisions or stronger supplier collaboration. It’s about making procurement performance measurable.
Definitely. The platform works on any device with a browser, no installation needed. So whether your team’s in the office, working remotely, or spread across regions - they can learn anywhere, anytime.