Course Details

Wherever you start your learning journey, every CIPS award is closely aligned to a specific job level, helping you to prepare for promotion and enhancing your personal and professional development. The International Advanced Certificate in Procurement and Supply Operations comprises 5 units:

• Procurement and Supply Environments - Gives an understanding of a range of external factors that can impact on procurement and supply operations, focuses on the wider environment that impacts on procurement and supply in a range of different types of organizations, the public, private and not for profit or third sector.
• Procurement and Supply Operations - Identifies a range of considerations in formulating agreements with external organizations and assesses procurement and supply operations structured around the achievement of the five rights, namely price, quality, time, quantity and place.
• Procurement and Supply Workflow - Interprets a range of data to help develop effective administration processes required when dealing with external organizations and identifies the typical work flows that procurement and supply personnel can be involved in .
• Inventory and Logistics Operations - Identifies appropriate techniques to ensure the right inventory can be purchased or supplied and how they can be applied to achieve the availability of inventories through the flow of materials and information.
• Procurement and Supply Relationships - Explains a range of main principles and techniques that help develop customer and supplier relationships.  It is essential for procurement and supply personnel to form effective relationships with suppliers, internal and external customers and other stakeholders, it also introduces the principles of marketing, the importance of cross-functional working and the need to communicate effectively both within the organization and with people from external organizations.