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Training Courses > Procurement training > Operational procurement Operational Procurement Training & Certification
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.
- 2.5+ hours
- 11 courses
- 19 learning tools
Team-based digital learning
Your team will learn:
- Key principles
- Procure to pay
- Operational management tools
- e-Procurement
Operational Procurement Training & Certification
Learn the fundamentals then take a deep dive into operational procurement. Understand the Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) process, achieving compliance by reducing “Maverick Buying”, learn how to improve cost per transaction and use tools such as E-Procurement, VMI and Purchase Cards.
Operational procurement certification
Our Operational Procurement purchasing courses cover the core fundamentals of operational procurement and then deep dives into essential topics such as purchasing training, Purchase-to-Pay (P2P), achieving compliance targets, improving cost per transaction and using tools such as e-procurement, VMI and purchase cards.
Key principles
Understand the process of operational procurement with a procurement certification, including key definitions, the role of the buyer, key stakeholders, the three-way match, increasing contract and policy compliance, improving efficiency and reducing Maverick Buying.
Procure To Pay process
When it comes to procurement costs, our set of two courses on the Procure-to-Pay process takes your team through the management of requisition creation, the three flows of requisition creation, the use of MRP systems in operational procurement and stock management. We explore the role of purchase orders, managing transactions (from requisition to payment), automatics, semi-automatic and manual paths, automating transactions and executing a rapid sourcing process.
Operational management tools
The ”Operational Procurement Tools” course helps your team understand the fundamental tools used to manage operational procurement, including Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), e-procurement, e-catalogues, consortium purchases, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), using blank Purchase Orders (POs) and portfolio analysis to decide when to use each tool.
E-procurement training
Discover how e-procurement contributes to success, its advantages and disadvantages and how to use e-catalogues to improve compliance and efficiency
Suitable for the following roles:
- Operational Buyer
- Procurement Analyst
- Buyer / Senior Buyer
- Contract Manager
- Category Manager
- Procurement Manager
- Support Manager
- Quality Assurance Manager
This learning content includes:
- High-impact
learning - Exams &
assessments - Simulations
- Expert
Reviews - Application
based tasks - Microlearning
- Serious
games - Webinar
toolkits