CIPS Level 5 Advanced Diploma in Procurement and Supply

The course will cover cost reduction, quality improvement and timescale management, managing the supply chain, dealing with legal issues, and many other key skills that every procurement specialist should have.

At this level there are three core modules that must be completed as well as two that can be selected from the optional units below:

Core Units:

• Management in Procurement and Supply - This unit will allow you to understand different approaches to the management of individuals and groups or teams within organisations. In order to develop expertise in developing and fulfilling organisational and functional objectives in procurement and supply, it is essential that you gain a wider appreciation of theories and techniques that relate to managing the people involved with the procurement and supply function.

• Managing Risk in Supply Chains - This unit outlines the tools and techniques to establish the level of risk in supply chains, and will demonstrate and recommend the ways of avoiding, mitigating and managing the risks. The unit is also designed to enable you to undertake risk analysis, and apply a range of appropriate risk management tools and techniques within supply chains.

• Improving the Competitiveness of Supply Chains - This unit will demonstrate how to assess a range of processes that help achieve improvements in business performance through its supply chain. It's designed to help you understand a range of techniques to improve the competitiveness of organisations in supply chains, and understand their dynamics. You'll also cover the methodologies that can be implemented to improve supply chains.

Optional Units:

• Category Management in Procurement and Supply - On completion of this unit, you'll be able to develop plans to improve competitiveness by the application of systematic approaches to the management of both direct and indirect organisational expenditure. The unit focuses on the different approaches and methodologies for strategic sourcing and category management, demonstrating the role of the procurement and supply chain specialist in leading these approaches.

• Sustainability in Supply Chains - In this unit, you'll learn about different approaches that can help achieve sustainability, exploring the concept and initiatives including aspects of corporate social responsibility. This section will also cover the impact on communities and society, environmental aspects of sourcing, ethical trading, and working standards. The alignment of sustainable goals within supply chains has both global and local dimensions and is a developing area for organisational commitment, procedures, systems and practice.

• Operations Management in Supply Chains - This unit is designed to help you appraise the main techniques that improve organisations' operations.