Procurement & Supply Chain training courses
Source smarter and run resilient supply chains from tender to delivery.
Delivered in-house at your premises, as public sessions in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria, Dubai and London, or live online. Courses run 2 Days, 3 Days, 5 Days, 10 Days, from R10,000 per delegate.
Strategic Sourcing and Category Management
Sourcing decisions shape cost, quality, and risk long after a contract is signed. This course develops a structured approach to strategic sourcing and the management of spend by category. Participants learn to analyse spend, understand supply markets, and build sourcing strategies that deliver measurable value.
Contract Management and Administration
Value is often won or lost after the contract award, during the day to day management of the agreement. This course covers the skills needed to administer contracts, manage performance, and resolve issues before they escalate. Delegates study obligations, variations, claims, and structured relationship management.
Supplier Relationship and Performance Management
The best value often comes not from a single negotiation but from a productive long term relationship with key suppliers. This course explains how to segment suppliers, set expectations, and manage performance collaboratively. Participants build practical scorecards and governance structures.
Negotiation Skills for Procurement Professionals
Negotiation is a core procurement skill that directly affects cost, terms, and supplier goodwill. This course develops both the planning and the interpersonal skills needed to negotiate strong outcomes. Delegates practise through realistic exercises and receive structured feedback.
Inventory Optimisation and Demand Planning
Holding too much stock ties up cash while holding too little disrupts operations and disappoints customers. This course teaches how to forecast demand and set inventory policies that balance service against cost. Participants work with reorder methods, safety stock, and forecasting techniques.
Warehouse and Distribution Centre Management
The warehouse is where inventory strategy meets daily operational reality. This course covers the design, layout, and management of warehouse and distribution operations for efficiency and accuracy. Delegates study storage systems, order picking, and the metrics that reveal performance.
Logistics and Freight Transport Management
Moving goods reliably and affordably across road, sea, and air is a discipline in its own right. This course covers the planning and control of transport and freight across modes and borders. Participants examine mode selection, carrier management, and the total cost of moving goods.
Procurement Fraud and Risk Management
Procurement handles significant spend and is therefore exposed to fraud, corruption, and a range of supply risks. This course helps professionals recognise warning signs and build controls that protect the organisation. Delegates study common fraud schemes, segregation of duties, and supply risk assessment.
International Trade, Incoterms and Customs Compliance
Cross border trade brings opportunities alongside a web of rules, terms, and documentation. This course clarifies the responsibilities of buyers and sellers under international trade terms and the requirements of customs. Participants learn to apply the correct terms and manage compliant clearance.
Tendering, Bid Evaluation and Award
A fair and rigorous tender process protects the organisation and secures competitive offers. This course covers the design of tender documents, evaluation criteria, and the disciplined award of contracts. Delegates practise building scoring models and documenting defensible decisions.
Cost and Price Analysis in Procurement
Understanding what sits behind a supplier price is essential to negotiating and defending value. This course teaches how to analyse cost structures, evaluate prices, and calculate the total cost of ownership. Participants use practical tools to challenge quotations and identify savings.
Supply Chain Analytics and Data Driven Decisions
Supply chains generate large volumes of data that can guide better and faster decisions. This course shows how to turn that data into insight through practical analysis and visualisation. Delegates work with spend, performance, and demand data to support planning and improvement.
Public Sector Procurement and Governance
Public procurement must deliver value while meeting strict standards of fairness, transparency, and accountability. This course explains the principles and processes that govern spending public money. Participants examine compliance, oversight, and the balance between rules and results.
Lean Supply Chain and Continuous Improvement
Waste hides in every step of a supply chain, from excess inventory to unnecessary movement and waiting. This course applies lean thinking to identify and remove that waste across the flow of goods and information. Delegates learn practical improvement tools and how to sustain gains.
Warehouse Safety and Materials Handling
Busy warehouses combine people, moving equipment, and stacked goods in ways that create real risk. This course covers the safe operation of warehouses and the handling of materials by hand and by machine. Participants learn practical controls that protect staff without slowing operations.
Procurement Digital Transformation and E Procurement
Digital tools are reshaping how procurement operates, from sourcing platforms to automated purchase to pay. This course explains how to plan and adopt procurement technology to improve efficiency and control. Delegates examine system selection, process design, and change management.
Sustainable and Ethical Procurement
Buyers are increasingly expected to consider environmental and social impact alongside cost and quality. This course shows how to embed sustainability and ethics into sourcing and supplier management. Participants study responsible sourcing, supplier codes, and impact measurement.
Fleet and Distribution Cost Control
Transport is often one of the largest and least understood costs in a supply chain. This course helps managers identify and control the true cost of running a fleet and delivering goods. Delegates work with fuel, maintenance, utilisation, and route cost data.
Purchasing Fundamentals for New Buyers
Every effective buyer needs a solid grasp of the purchasing cycle and the practices that protect the organisation. This course gives newcomers a thorough grounding in the day to day work of procurement. Participants learn requisitioning, supplier selection, ordering, and expediting.
End to End Supply Chain Strategy and Design
A supply chain works best when its parts are designed to serve a single, coherent strategy. This programme takes participants across the full supply chain, from strategy and network design through to execution and improvement. The extended format allows deep study of sourcing, planning, logistics, and performance together.
Demand and Supply Planning Integration
When demand and supply plans drift apart, the result is stockouts, excess, and frustrated customers. This course teaches how to align forecasting, inventory, and supply through an integrated planning process. Participants study sales and operations planning and the collaboration it requires.
Procurement Contract Negotiation and Award
The negotiation between preferred bidder and signed contract is where most procurement value is won or lost. This course covers preparing a negotiation position from the tender, protecting the fairness of the process and converting outcomes into contract terms.
Stores and Inventory Control Operations
Stores accuracy determines whether the rest of the supply chain can be trusted. This course covers receiving, storage, issue and counting discipline, and the causes of the variances that erode confidence in stock records.
Import and Export Documentation
Cross border shipments are delayed and fined for documentation errors far more than for physical problems. This course covers the documents each party needs, how they must agree with one another and where errors typically enter.
Supply Chain Risk and Resilience
Supply chains optimised purely for cost break under stress. This course covers how to map exposure, identify single points of failure and build resilience that is proportionate rather than expensive insurance against everything.
Cold Chain and Perishable Logistics
Temperature controlled goods fail quietly and the loss is often discovered only at the customer. This course covers the equipment, monitoring and handover discipline that keep a cold chain intact from origin to delivery.
Fleet Route Planning and Distribution Optimisation
Distribution cost is decided by route design and load planning far more than by fuel price. This course covers building efficient routes, consolidating loads and measuring whether the plan survives contact with the road.
Spend Analysis and Procurement Reporting
Organisations cannot negotiate well without knowing what they buy and from whom. This course covers cleaning and classifying spend data, finding the leverage in it and reporting procurement performance credibly.
Supplier Development and Localisation
Local suppliers often cannot meet requirements at first, and replacing them defeats the purpose of localisation. This course covers assessing capability, developing suppliers deliberately and measuring whether the investment paid off.
Materials Requirements Planning
Planning systems produce nonsense when the data behind them is wrong, and planners then override them into chaos. This course covers how requirements planning works, the data it depends on and how to run it so its output can be trusted.
Customs Clearance and Tariff Classification
Duty is calculated from the tariff code, and the wrong code means either overpayment or a penalty. This course covers classification, valuation and the clearance process, including how to defend a classification decision.
Construction and Engineering Procurement
Buying construction and engineering work exposes an organisation to design risk, price escalation and long delivery chains. This course covers packaging the work, selecting contractors and managing procurement through a build.
Vendor Performance Scorecards
Supplier reviews turn into anecdote when there is no agreed measurement. This course covers designing scorecards that suppliers accept and that actually drive improvement rather than filling a folder.
Reverse Logistics and Returns Management
Goods coming back cost more to handle than goods going out and are usually managed as an afterthought. This course covers designing returns processes that recover value and reveal the causes of returns.
Humanitarian and Emergency Supply Chains
Emergency supply chains operate with incomplete information, damaged infrastructure and intense scrutiny of how funds are spent. This course covers procuring and moving relief goods quickly while remaining accountable.
Contract Pricing Models and Cost Structures
The pricing model in a contract decides who carries the risk of things costing more than expected. This course covers the main models, when each is appropriate and how to protect against the weaknesses of each.
Freight Forwarding and Multimodal Transport
Moving goods internationally means coordinating carriers, customs and documents across several legs. This course covers arranging multimodal shipments and managing liability across the chain.
Preventing Corruption in Sourcing and Tendering
Procurement staff are the most exposed to inducement in most organisations. This course covers recognising the pressures, handling supplier relationships properly and protecting both the organisation and yourself.
Inventory Accuracy and Cycle Counting
Inventory records diverge from reality gradually until a full count reveals the gap. This course covers building counting discipline that keeps records accurate without shutting operations down.
Supply Market Analysis and Category Strategy
Sourcing decisions made without understanding the supply market leave value on the table or create dependency. This course covers analysing a supply market and building a category strategy from it.
Public Procurement Tender Evaluation
Public tender awards are challenged when evaluation is inconsistent or poorly recorded. This course covers evaluating bids fairly and documenting decisions that survive review.
Conveyor Systems and Sortation
Automated handling moves volume that manual operations cannot, and stops the whole site when it jams. This course covers specifying, operating and maintaining conveyor and sortation equipment.
Order Picking and Fulfilment Productivity
Picking is the largest labour cost in most warehouses and the place where errors reach the customer. This course covers picking methods, layout and the accuracy disciplines that protect service.
Demand Forecasting for Retail
Retail forecasting has to handle promotions, seasonality and stores that behave differently from each other. This course covers building forecasts that support ordering rather than merely describing the past.
Packaging Design and Cost Reduction
Packaging protects product, carries the brand and costs money on every unit shipped. This course covers designing packaging that survives the supply chain without over specifying it.
Global Sourcing and Low Cost Country Buying
Sourcing from distant suppliers trades unit price against lead time, quality risk and working capital. This course covers assessing whether the saving is real once every cost is counted.
Framework Agreements and Call Off Contracts
A framework settles the terms once and then buys repeatedly against them. Set up badly it either locks the buyer in or delivers no certainty at all. This course covers designing, awarding and running one.
Contract Lifecycle Management Systems and Repositories
Most organisations cannot say quickly what they have signed, with whom, or when it expires. This course covers building a repository and the routine around it so that answer takes a minute.
Tender Clarifications and Bidder Communication
A tender is most often challenged over what buyers said to bidders while it was open, or failed to say to all of them. This course covers running that communication so the award holds.
Expediting and Supplier Order Follow Up
An order placed is not an order delivered, and the orders that fail quietly are the ones nobody chased. This course covers tracking open orders and intervening before a date is missed rather than after.