Procurement and Contract Management Courses
Please click here to see our 2012 Public Training Schedule
This course provides practical in-depth guidance on both carrying out the ‘routine’ but vital responsibilities of contract administration and handling the challenges that typically arise during the life of a contract. You will learn how to use a proactive team approach to successfully administer contracts of all types and sizes to increase profitability and improve customer satisfaction.
This course provides a set of practical tools and techniques designed to get you up to speed quickly on outsourcing contract issues. This is “real-life” information, directly from the trenches and facilitated by instructors who have successfully managed long-term, multi-million dollar outsourcing contracts.
Sourcing is a common phenomenon in today’s marketplace, due to its labour, technical and cost-saving solutions for businesses and government. But, in order for organisations to reap the maximum benefits of sourcing, they must manage the myriad of risks that can accompany a sourcing relationship.
Emphasis will be on the process of negotiating the contract itself—the legal document that governs the business relationship between the parties. The course highlights the good and bad practices that business managers must be aware of when negotiating contracts. Using a process approach to building successful business relationships, the course teaches all the key considerations and steps involved in planning, conducting, and documenting contract negotiations
In this course, participants will be introduced to a unique model to help determine the most appropriate vendor relationship to address your various project needs. The course covers what project managers need to know to influence the contracting process to establish more effective, long-term, win-win relationships with capable, compatible ‘partners’. It explores activities that are essential to effective vendor selection: articulating the right requirement, building the right relationship, finding the right partner, structuring the right contract and maintaining the right attitude between the parties.
Get an overview of all phases of contracting, from requirements development to closeout. See how incentive can be used to improve contract results. This course explores these vital issues from the manager’s perspective, highlighting key roles and responsibilities to give you greater influence over how work is performed. You’ll also discuss actions that can be taken to help ensure that contractors or subcontractors perform as required under the contract.
Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are designed to allow contractors to propose and implement innovative ways to achieve contract objectives and provide companies with effective tools to objectively assess and enforce contractor performance. The proper use of performance standards, acceptable quality levels, incentives and other performance-based acquisition (PBA) tools can lead to enhanced contractor performance resulting in cost savings to the companies and improvements in customer satisfaction.
Working in teams, you will complete an extensive and realistic simulation in which you confront challenges typical of those that arise throughout the life cycle of a contract. Your team will identify and analyse problems, weigh alternative solutions, make trade-offs and take action based on your decisions.
This course implements challenging team exercises and case studies that will take you through the process of building solid statements of work. You will learn how outsourcing needs emerge within companies and how those needs are recognised and articulated. You will identify methods by which needs are analysed using proven tools to yield contract objectives that generate logic, flow and consistency in the resulting SOW.
Please click here to see our 2012 Public Training Schedule