
Advanced Procurement Skills
Course Description
(Objectives)
- Review critical supply strategies
- Be provided the concepts of activity based costing
- Discuss current forces of change
- Learn how to create rapport, build trust and establish credibility in a work group
- Understand that communication is vital to successful, productive work groups
- Learn skills required for good supplier relationships
- Study business continuity and contingency planning for procurement
- Be taught a category segmentation process
(Participants)
- Learn how to plan in successful negotiations
- Study different approaches in negotiations
- Examine standards of ethics
- Learn how to rate a supplier
- Evaluating strengths and weaknesses of suppliers
Course Curriculum

Yousef Khalaf
Research AssociateYousef brings nearly 14 years of extensive experience and expertise in marketing research and analysis. He has directly managed a variety of private-sector projects, including market research, market analysis,