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Managing Supplier Performance

Course Code
4160325

Enhance supplier relations and performance with our Managing Supplier Performance course. Develop proactive approaches to monitoring and improving supplier interactions, integral to our Advanced Project Management certificate. Perfect for professionals aiming to maintain PMI certification.

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  • Start Date March 3
  • Time N/A
  • Duration 16 Hours
  • Program Type Open-Enrollment/Public
  • Certificate Type FlexCert
  • Format Self-Paced Online
  • CEUs 1.6
  • PDUs 16
  • Fees $1,310
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Enhance supplier relations and performance with our Managing Supplier Performance course. Develop proactive approaches to monitoring and improving supplier interactions, integral to our Advanced Project Management certificate. Perfect for professionals aiming to maintain PMI certification.

Managing Supplier Performance

Program Experience

This course focuses on strategies and techniques using agile principles to managing project suppliers and supply chains, including general procurement, subcontracts, and vendors. You will examine the entire acquisition lifecycle, from the development of executable requirements, specifications, statements of work, and contractual terms and conditions through successful delivery and acceptance. You will learn to provide effective oversight and recognize and resolve supplier performance problems.

Build a broad spectrum of skills needed to optimize costs, delivery reliability, and sharpen product quality by using materials, talent, and enterprise resources effectively. Learn how to set goals for suppliers and manage performance to support compliance and forge long-lasting relationships. 

Managing Supplier Performance can be taken as a stand-alone short course for targeted learning. When used as an elective in the FlexCert certificate for Advanced Project Management you can tailor the program to resonate with your career aspirations and goals.

Benefits

You will learn to:

  • Understand the operations and key processes of the supply chain
  • Develop executable requirements and recognize hidden dangers in specifications, statements of work and contractual terms and conditions
  • Perform effective source selections and negotiations
  • Manage suppliers for success and quality
  • Recognize early indicators of potential supplier performance problems
    Avoid potential contractual/legal problems
  • Develop effective strategies for resolution of supplier performance problems
  • Achieve effective oversight and control of lower-tier suppliers

Managing Supplier Performance can be taken as a stand-alone short course for targeted learning. When used as an elective in the FlexCert certificate for Advanced Project Management you can tailor the program to resonate with your career aspirations and goals.

Topics
  • Operations and key processes of the supply chain
  • Hidden dangers in specifications, statements of work and contractual terms and conditions
  • Effective source selections and negotiations
  • Supply Management
  • Early indicators of potential supplier performance problems
  • Potential contractual/legal problems
  • Strategies for resolution of supplier performance problems
  • Effective oversight and control of lower-tier suppliers
Who Should Attend

While there are no prerequisites, participants should have at least five years of experience managing projects.

  • Managers
  • Project managers
  • Business analysts
  • Technical professionals
Schedule
Course Duration Self-Paced Online
Managing Supplier Performance 12
 16 Hours

March 3, 2025 release; completes March 30, 2025
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Instructors

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Steve McNamara

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