Student orientation forum for Commerce Edge Academy students.

Forum for CIPS students studying CIPS Graduate Diploma in Purchasing & Supply

Forum for Commerce Edge Academy students to provide feedback on learning experience and to submit compliments or complaints

Sample CIPS Study Forum for Candidate Review

Green Procurement, Minortity Procurement, Black Economic Empowerment, Socially Responsible Procurement

Questions specifically dealing with various aspects of Public Sector Procurement. Remember to indicate which COUNTRY you are from

A forum for defining key terms / definitions as it applies to World Class Procurement and Supply Chain Management

Forum to discuss negotiation and negotiation tactics

Strategy for creating a World-Class Procurement Organisation, Integration with Business Strategy and Planning.. Ability to influence the organisation's overall strategy. Selling the Procurement Business Case

Spend SEGMENTATION, Cross Functional TEAMS, ANALYSING: TCO / Lifeycle Costs, Supplier Market, Item Characteristics and Supplier Costs. OPPORTUNITY Brainstorming, Sourcing STRATEGY Development.

Management of Goods and Services (Commodities) throughout their lifecycle from need through to disposal. Category and Specification Management. Codification of items.

Benchmarking of goods and services pricing, total costs, procurement processes, procurement performance

Supply Base Strategies, Performance Measurement, Supplier Relationship Management, Supplier Integration, Supplier Development

Contract Pre-Planning, Risk Management, Legal Aspects, Creating and Managing SLA's (service level agreements), Contracts Database, Contracts Close Out

Managing Procurement Projects (e.g. sourcing projects, technology projects, procurement transformation initiatives) and managing procurement in projects (e.g. buying for projects)

Planning and replanning of procurement requirements. Integration with other planning systems and Process. Materials Management

Policies, Eliminiating fraud, spend limits, authorisations, transactional reporting.

Managing and optimising the purchase to pay Cycle. Expediting. Red Tape Reduction

e-Procurement, Procurement Cards, Contract Management Solutions, e-Auctions, ERP, Supplier Management Technology, Spend Analysis Tools, Supplier Relationship Management

World Class Procurement Roles, Organisational Design, Competencies, Training, Compensation.

Creating an appropriate framework for incentivising procurement performance

Directories of Goods and Services, Information on the web