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May 03, 2024
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CSPM 201 - Strategic Procurement Management
This certificate is designed to provide learners with concepts, principles and methods of strategic procurement management. It provides the learners with the advanced skills needed to plan and manage the strategic sourcing and procurement. The following topics are; purchasing management overview, sourcing decisions, inventory management, and basics of forecasting techniques

Prerequisite:Foundation Certificate in Supply Chain Management.

Career Certificate in Strategic Procurement Management

Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the learner will be able to:
1. Define procurement management and its components.
2. Identify operation management basics.
3. Analyze the relationship between procurement, purchasing, and supply management.
4. Demonstrate strategic planning in Procurement management .
5. Demonstrate the supplier selection and evaluation process.
6. Discuss various inventory flow patterns, costs and the trade-offs that exist among them.
7. Assess inventory management processes.
8. Apply various inventory flow patterns, costs and the trade-offs that exist among them.
9. Prepare the vendor management framework.

Term duration: 12 Weeks
Schedule: 1 Session/week - 5 Hrs/Session
Or
Term duration: 6 Weeks
Schedule: 2 Sessions/week - 5 Hrs/Session

Assessments and Attendance:
Learners are assessed throughout the term by tests, quizzes, assignments, projects or othermeans of evaluation. End-of-term achievement tests measure learners’ overall performancein the course. The final grade in each course is based on learners’ performance oncontinual assessment measures and the final test. Final course grades are NOT based on attendance, since in accordance with SCE’s attendance policy, learners must attend at least 75% of the class sessions in order to be allowed to take the final examination.


6.000 Continuing Education Units
6.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Continuing Education
Schedule Types: Lecture

SCE Career Development Department

Course Attributes:
SCE-BSD-CSCM/CSPM/CLM

Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Programs:     
      Strategic Procurement Manag.
Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels:     
      Continuing Education
Must be enrolled in one of the following Colleges:     
      School of Continuing Education
Must be enrolled in one of the following Majors:     
      SCE Career Development
Must be enrolled in one of the following Departments:     
      SCE Career Development

Prerequisites:
(Continuing Education level CSCM 102 Minimum Grade of D)

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