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Training Course: Advanced Purchasing Management


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PC4096

9 - 13 Feb 2025

Dubai (UAE)

Cost : 4150 € Euro

Introduction

This training session is for experienced project managers to examine advanced project and program management techniques, building on the basics to help ensure success even for large and risky projects and programs. This program stresses project management processes as an integral part of organizational culture and what senior management must do to support it and make it successful within an organization. This course aligns with the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Project Management Body of Knowledge.

Project scope management and stakeholder analysis work continues to improve across the project and program management discipline. Learn the newest tools and technologies for handling stakeholders, and building quality into your project.

Learn the newest concepts and techniques for project planning, estimating, and scheduling. Discover how queuing theory, the Theory of Constraints (Critical Chain Project Management), and other advanced concepts can help you develop solid, reliable, efficient and effective project plans.

Continue your development with advanced program risk and uncertainty analysis. Learn strategies for handling uncertainty, discover the network affects of project risks, and discover advanced methods for identifying and qualifying project and program risks.

Course Objectives of Advanced Purchasing Management

  • Improve risk management throughout the project life cycle
  • Track projects with solid metrics, not with speculation
  • Better handling of difficult vendors
  • Improved time and cost estimates for risky and challenging projects
  • Reduce cost and schedule risks using advanced, proven techniques
  • Accurately report progress even on complex and risky projects
  • Improve stakeholder communication and involvement

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

How you will benefit:

  • Understand and master the people skills needed for effective project management
  • Develop skills to communicate horizontally across functional levels and vertically with senior levels of management
  • Effectively define project objectives and assignments
  • Effectively utilize scheduling methods and tools to support project control and analysis
  • Develop and utilize risk management, contingency planning and change control
  • Effectively prioritize objectives and assignments

And you will learn:

  • Advanced tools for scheduling and control
  • Planning for contingencies
  • Aligning projects to the enterprise by defining project drivers and considerations
  • Skills to enhance teamwork and managing conflict
  • To select, develop and evaluate Project Managers
  • Purchasing, supply chain management, and contract administration
  • Management of supplier relationships
  • Optimization planning
  • Strategies to survive in a resource-constrained environment

Course Outlines of Advanced Purchasing Management

DAY 1

  • Introduction
    • Why do we do projects?
    • What is a project?
    • What is project management?
    • Project Delivery Systems / Life-cycle Models
  • Initiating
  • Project selection
    • Qualitative techniques
    • Quantitative techniques - Economic Evaluation
  • Selecting the right project manager
  • Project Objectives and Stakeholder assessment - who wants what?
  • Identification of stakeholders
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Management of stakeholders

DAY 2

  • Planning
    1. Task Characteristics and Duration Assessment
    2. Planning and Scheduling Methods
    3. Critical Path vs Critical Chain Scheduling
    4. Resource Allocation Methods
    5. Time-Cost Trade-off
    6. Lead/Lag Scheduling
    7. Critical Chain scheduling

DAY 3

  • Proactive Project Risk Management
    • What do we mean by risk?
    • Risk vs. uncertainty
    • Attitudes towards risk
    • Risk identification, factors, and sources
    • Risk analysis approaches
    • Qualification and quantification of probability and impact
    • Dealing with subjective elements of risk
    • Risk strategies

DAY 4

  • Executing
    • Lean Construction Strategies
    • Staff Acquisition
    • Team Development and Motivation
    • Leadership vs Management
    • Management styles and Conflict Handling

DAY 5

  • Monitoring and controlling
    • Using Earned Value to report accomplishment
    • Implementing Risk strategies
  • Project Closing

Project, Contract

Training Course: Advanced Purchasing Management


Register Now
Quick Inquiry
Discount Group Download Brochure (37)

PC4096

9 - 13 Feb 2025

Dubai (UAE) -

Cost: 4150 € Euro


  About Dubai

Dubai, located on the Persian Gulf, is one of the seven United Arab Emirates and one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. The discovery of oil in the region has made Dubai extremely wealthy, allowing it to build the glittering skyscrapers that it is now famous for. That wealth is strongly in evidence in Dubai and visitors will see luxurious buildings and supercars aplenty. Perfect beaches and endless shopping opportunities are to key to Dubai's attractions. Flights to Dubai open up the city's cultural attractions to tourists, with beautiful mosques, museums and art galleries scattered throughout this ultra-modern metropolis.


  Things to do and places to visit in Dubai

Dubai's wealth has made it famous for building ever taller buildings and creating artificial islands off its shores. The city's hotels are luxurious and shoppers will love its extensive shopping malls which showcase all the world's top brands. Dubai's attractions don't end there. Dubai also caters to adventure lovers, who can jump in a 4x4 or on a board to speed over dunes outside the city. Local culture mustn't be forgotten either, and visitors have wonderful mosques to visit and old districts to explore. All that combined means that a flight to Dubai is sure to lead to an unforgettable holiday.

When visiting Dubai, be sure to:

  • Go to the observation deck of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.
  • Admire the intricately beautiful Grand Mosque, which has the tallest minaret in the city.
  • Understand the local history and culture with a visit to the Dubai Museum.
  • Discover objects from the 6th century at Jumeirah Archaeological Site.
  • Go skiing – That's not a joke, the Mall of the Emirates houses a snowdome.
  • Go shopping at the Mall of the Emirates or the Dubai Mall.
  • Explore the desert surrounding the city – either by 4x4 or atop a camel.
  • Eat fantastic seafood at Dubai Marina.
  • Cool off at the Wild Wadi Waterpark.
  • Marvel at gorgeous Arabic calligraphy at Jumeirah Mosque, the biggest in the city.
  • Take a yacht tour around the artificial islands of Palm Jumeirah.
  • Haggle for souvenirs in one of the city's souks.
  • Wander around the traditional building in Bastakiya District.
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