Certificate in Strategic Purchasing Management

Mastering the new challenges of top Purchasing Management

This program is endorsed by Logistics inWallonia, the walloon cluster for regionalgrowth, innovation and development insupply chain, logistics and mobility.

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BENEFITS OFTHE PROGRAM

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Why this program?The Purchasing Manager is a key player in theExecutive Team and a trusted actor in the SupplyChain. No business player can ignore the SupplyChain to which his organization belongs. Neither canhe overlook the challenges facing his operations andthe value of a close collaboration with his suppliersand contracted partners.

The Purchasing Manager makes sure that the qualityof exchange and cooperation with suppliers providesa key of competitiveness to his own organization.Relationships with suppliers aim at a win-win result,which requires a constant search for common valuecreation.

Sourcing, purchasing and procurement require global access and use of sophisticated informationand communication systems. Today, purchasingperformances can be greatly impacted by the use of internet.

The Purchasing Manager must be able to demons-trate a capability to marry strategic and tacticaldecisions, in a turbulent world of uncertainty.Because of the complexity of his job, he needs toacquire and master technical, managerial andbehavioral competences with the required depthand -more important?- width.

For such purposes, and to respond to this deman-ding context, the program responds to the businessneeds of providing a global, up-to-date expertise inthe strategic management of purchasing in order tofully integrate and support the enterprise strategy.

ObjectivesThe learning objectives of this program are : • Transform/Reinforce the strategic side of a purchasing organization ;

• Understand the people side of a purchasing organization ;

• Create value by designing and implementing a purchasing strategy ;

• Acquire and master purchasing tools for makingmindfullness decisions ;

• Manage the extended enterprise.

To whom is the program made for?This program is tailored for :• Purchasing Manager from a small or medium sizeenterprise or administration ;

• Lead Buyer from a large corporation or from the public sector ;

• Leaders in Production, Marketing, Logistics,Finance, etc., who need - or want to – familiarizewith the strategic approach of Purchasing from the top end ;

• Any type of activity sectors – industry, services, …- private or public.

An adapted pedagogyA 6-day program based on a renewed pedagogicapproach :• Lectures by academics and practitioners, jointlyproposing newest concepts and concrete illus-trations ;

• Submission of reading and viewing assignmentsthrough an e-learning platform;

• Visits and case discussions in selected organi-zations ;

• Submission and presentation of a personal application of the lessons learned to the partici-pant's own organization.

CONTENT OFTHE PROGRAM

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AM: Introduction

Marc Fourny / Ir Emmanuel Stenier

STRATEGIC CORE

INTRODUCTIONPeople in Purchasing

STRATEGIC ENABLERS

PERSONAL CONTRIBUTION

Day 2Friday

Day 1Friday

Day 6Saturday

Day 3Saturday

Day 4Friday

Day 5Friday

• Introduction to the program

• Logistics and operations

• Use of moodle

• Objectives of the indivi-dual paper

Day 2 & 3 :Strategic Purchasing

Dr Constantin Blome /Pascal Reyntjens

• Fundamentals of purchasing & categorystrategies

• Implementation of purchasing Strategies

• Purchasing Strategies– Outsourcing– Offshoring– Global Sourcing– Innovation– Sustainability– Risk Management

PresentationsGroup Discussion

Presentation of a personal applicationof studied materials to own organization :

• Prepared with and coached by the professors;

• Discussed and collectively shared with other participantsPM: People

in PurchasingIr Vincent Glorieux

• Transforming yourPurchasing Organization

• Typology of Structures

• Purchasing competen-cies

Day 4 : ChangingEnvironnement

Ir Emmanuel Stenier

• From project to series

• Responses to change

• Supplier collaboration

Day 5 : ManagementPhilip Meyers

• Performance Management

• Audit & SupplierDevelopment

• Purchasing tools

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e-learning material(consolidation &internalization)

e-learning material(exchange about personal application)

e-learningmaterial (pre-requisites)

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Certification :• Participants who attended regularly the programand completed successfully the final applicationassignment and presentation will be granted the«ABCAL Certificate of Strategic PurchasingManagement».

• The program has been designed so that it reflectsthe new Supply Chain standards of the EuropeanLogistics Association.

Location : Unless organized on site, the location of the lectures is CEI 2 (ABCAL Office), 6, rue Louis De Geer, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve.

Language of the program:English; participants are expected to master theEnglish language.

Registering and program fee :• The applications will be examined by a jury on thebasis of background, experience and motivation.

• The program fee amounts to 3950 Euros (3450 Euros for members of ABCAL, Agoria, LiW)and includes tuition, pedagogic material, coursefacilities, lunches and coffee breaks.

• In case of withdrawal before the start of the trai-ning, an indemnity of 10% will be required. Afterthe start, no more remboursement will be possible.

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PRACTICALINFORMATION

Calendar

• Program enquiries can be addressed to

Ir Emmanuel Stenier, Program Director

(by e-mail : emmanuel.stenier@socotra.management

or cell phone : +32 474 85 22 64)

• Practical and administrative questions

to Mrs Pascale Eysenbrands, ABCAL Secretary

(by e-mail : info@abcal.org or

by phone : 010 39 00 57)

More information?

Introduction

Introduction to the programFriday 9:00 – 12:30ABCAL Office

People Side of PurchasingFriday 13:30 – 17:00ABCAL Office

Day1

Strategic Core

On SiteFundamentals of purchasing & categorystrategiesFriday 9:00 – 12:30

Implementation of purchasing StrategiesFriday 13:30 – 17:00

Day2

Strategic Enablers

On SiteChangingEnvironnementFriday 9:00 – 12:30

Supplier CollaborationFriday 13:30 – 17:00

Day4

Purchasing Strategies (1)Saturday 9:00 – 12:30ABCAL Office

Purchasing Strategies (2) Saturday 13:30 – 17:00ABCAL Office

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Performance MeasuresFriday 9:00 – 12:30ABCAL Office

Purchasing ToolsFriday 13:30 – 17:00ABCAL Office

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