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Bespoke In House Training

DPSS has extensive experience in the design, development and delivery of a wide range of in-house training programmes. Recent examples include:

  • Procurement Skills
  • Practical Contract Management
  • Contract Management
  • Sustainable Procurement
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Developing Internal customer relationships
  • Practical Supply Chain improvement workshops
  • Improving communications across the supply chain
  • Local Authority procurement and contracting
  • Strategic Procurement
  • Negotiations
  • Inventory Management
  • E-Procurement
  • Change Management
  • Global Sourcing
  • Transport and Logistics

Between them, these courses cover topics such as:

  • Lifecycle cost issues
  • Payback calculations
  • Compatibility issues
  • Cost-based savings for capital expenditure items
  • Effective specification development process
  • Types of specifications and team approach
  • Use of performance specification, ESI, ECI concepts
  •  Fit for purpose and conformance to requirements
  • Supply chain management
  • Supplier relationship management and scoring
  • Ethical supply chain issues, code of conduct and impact upon total costs and to supplier and customer relationships
  • Risk and reward analysis
  • Contractual issues in procurement
  • Tender process management
  • Procurement and supply chain integrity in a post-merger post-acquisition context
  • Procurement in a turnaround context
  • RFP, RFQ,
  • Call-off contracts, negotiated procurement, strategic partnerships, outsourcing, global sourcing
  • E-procurement systems and reverse auctions

Through our long experience of dealing with the design delivery and evaluation of training events for a wide range of public and private sector clients we have developed a wide range of innovative training methods. We strive to ensure that all these methods are kept up to date and are completely appropriate to the subject area.

We believe it is very important to utilise innovative and facilitative techniques. Our choice of delivery method is largely determined by the desired outcome of the training and the needs of the group.

If you would like access to a free sample please click here.

if you require more information please email info@dpss.co.uk

Accreditations

Centre of excellence ISO Edexcel

Our Clients

Foster Wheeler Department of health, NHS British Nuclear Group Coca Cola Company Shell, Pfizer Honeywell

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