Managing Suppliers to Leverage More
Workshop Description
Supplier management is best described as an ongoing process that minimises the risks associated with purchasing goods, materials and services.
It ensures that products and services are more likely to meet agreed requirements from the point of first delivery and will continue to do so during their operational life. In the unlikely event that the product or service does not perform to its agreed requirements then corrective action can be implemented promptly.
Who will benefit?
Any one in your organisation with responsibility for purchasing from external suppliers. This workshop is also very useful for working with internal suppliers.
Delegates will learn to:
- See the importance and relevance of effective supplier management for their business
- Understand the supplier lifecycle, and perform analysis of pre engagement activities
- Have a process to define both and the supplier culture
- Position suppliers based on significance and the potential value being delivered
- Learn how to handle change requirements
- Extracting most value from the supplier relationship
- Explore ways of managing the exit professionally
Key benefits
- Manage relationships and performance of suppliers
- Lead, influence and direct the supplier
- Make supplier reviews effective
- Position suppliers based on significance and the potential value being delivered
- Manage mid term complacency
- Extracting most value from the supplier relationship
- How to manage without ‘contract waiving’
Workshop Duration
This is a 2 day workshop.
Workshop Cost
- This workshop costs £1400 for an in house delivery with a maximum of 12 delegates for two days
- This workshop costs £175 per delegate when booked on an open course. Maximum number on open course is 10 delegates.




