Supplier Relation Management Training
Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | ||
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Supplier Relation Management Training | 30 Nov 2025 | 04 Dec 2025 | Riyadh, KSA | $ 3,900 | Register |

Supplier Relation Management Training
Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Supplier Relation Management Training | 30 Nov 2025 | 04 Dec 2025 | Riyadh, KSA | $ 3,900 |
Introduction
This course has been classified as Management Development & Leadership. The course brings together a structured and comprehensive approach to managing suppliers which has been proven to be effective in a wide range of public and private sector organizations. It demonstrates through real-world case studies both successful and unsuccessful practices, and exactly what can be done to generate stunning levels of service provider performance. Step by step you will build a toolkit of supplier management improvement tools.
Objectives
- Highlight factors which are critical to the success of achieving excellent performance through suppliers
- Show how the present current economic climate can be used to lock in a long term advantage
- Significantly improve the performance of suppliers in key areas such as quality, delivery, lead times, innovation, and responsiveness
- Provide tools, methodologies, and approaches to working with suppliers on performance improvement and joint cost reduction programs
- Share a number of approaches which have been found to be effective in aligning supplier performance with the needs of customers
- Explain and explore a framework for building effective working relationships with colleagues and with contract staff, suppliers, and others
- Describe the ways in which supplier management can be used to provide a competitive advantage
Key benefits:
Training Methodology
This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.
Who Should Attend?
Directors, managers, and staff who are responsible for managing suppliers. This will include:
- Staff in procurement, operations, and finance
- Those responsible for managing external service providers in areas such as logistics, IT, facilities management and distribution
- Managers and staff who are responsible for suppliers who provide outsourced services
Course Outline
The Root Cause of Failure
- A leading consultancy survey of supplier performance
- Root cause analysis of failure
- Remedies and key lessons
Approaches for Finding the Best Supplier
- The criterion-based approach
- The "prospectus" tool
- Fool-proofing supplier selection
Best Practice Processes, Tools and Techniques
- Parallels between managing your own organization and managing suppliers
- Innovative ideas that are rooted in common sense
- Disciplines, tools, and methodologies which guarantee success
How World-Class Organizations Manage their Suppliers
- Managing the "extended enterprise"
- Leading examples from manufacturing, financial services, and the public sector
- A case study for course participants to analyze
Practical Approaches to Creating Leverage
- The four pillars on which supplier management should be based
- Alternative forms of power
- Supplementing contractual leverage
Working without Leverage
- Using relationships as a power substitute
- Basing a relationship on something other than a contract
- Rights, remedies and substitutes for leverage