GSDC's Certified Procurement Professional is one of the most recommended certifications by companies looking to hire Managers in the Supply Chain Industry especially for areas such as Strategic Sourcing where you will be requested to manage products/services worth Billions of dollars including direct and indirect materials & services. It is one of the key challenging roles where the responsibility of the Manager is to reduce or optimize the company's spend and help the company to achieve significant cost savings by means of strategies developed through research. Certified Procurement Professional certification also calls for excellent Spend Management Skills, the ability to negotiate with suppliers at ease, exceptional analytical bent of mind, skills of number crunching, and team handling.
12 Months
2-3 Hours / Month
Live Group Session with Course Advisors
Receive sessions on mentoring, coaching and clearing all your doubts.
The high-level learning objectives of the Certified Procurement Professional course are as below:
1. Innovate To Win New Savings, Risk Management, and Digitalization.
2. Creating a Digital Strategy for Procurement in your business.
3. Exploring the latest Digital Procurement Trends and their application.
4. Strategic Role of Procurement and New Strategy in the New Normal.
5. Top Priority Supplier Collaborations and Innovation.
6. Agile Procurement.
7. Vendor Performance Management.
8. Sourcing Strategies and Governance.
9. Procurement within the Industry 4.0 ERA.
10. Partnerships and Innovation
11. Cost optimization - Gather insights on cost optimization, improving cost transparency, and lowering operating costs.
5 Hours of expert-created video tutorials
8+ hours of industry expert talk series.
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16 Hours of expert created video tutorials
17+ hours of industry expert talk series.
Certify your achievement
Advance your career
Team leader
Supply Chain Management Teams
Supply chain management manager
Logistics manager
Purchase manager
Warehouse manager
Distribution manager
Acquiring the skill set to face and solve complex supply chain challenges anywhere in the world.
Increasing your earning potential and credibility in the job market.
Staying up to date in today's competitive global business environment.
Provides you with a common standard of supply chain understanding, vocabulary, resources, and frameworks to address supply chain challenges and opportunities
Work experience at a senior level or as a Team leader in Supply Chain/Procurement/Purchasing Warehousing/Distribution/Logistics Industry is required.
60-minutes exam.
40-multiple choice questions (MCQ).
26 out of 40-65% is needed to pass.
In case the participant does not score the passing percentage, they will be granted a 2nd attempt at no additional cost. Re-examination can be taken up to 30 days from the date of the 1st exam attempt.
The Global Skill Development Council (GSDC) is an independent, vendor-neutral, international credentialing and certification organization for the emerging technologies:
She is a complete professional with a 360 degree strategic mindset, hands on experience for over a decade on Transformation of People, Process and Performance by engaging stakeholders alignment and supplier partnership, enhancing power of engagement, elevating values of ethics and engineering the innovative global supply chain practices.
He is a business-focused and results-oriented executive with over More than 10 years of strategic supply chain experience to position with responsibilities covering procurement, logistics, operations, customs clearance, administration, Experienced with inviting and allotting tenders, Incoterms & L/Cs developing local and foreign vendors, reducing the cost of procurement of material, and assisting in the implementation of a computerized system (Maximo MMS).
