CIPS Level 6 Professional Diploma in Procurement & Supply

Globalization and the ever-changing markets in which organizations operate require effective leaders who are able to think and act in a strategic manner. This is particularly true for those who lead the procurement and supply function ensuring that it makes a positive contribution to overall organizational success. Strategic Leadership is the ability to make and communicate decisions that enhance the prospects for the organization’s long-term success while maintaining long-term financial stability.

This module is designed for those professionals who are expected to deliver effective and efficient procurement and supply. It emphasizes the leadership skills and behaviours required for the achievement of the objectives and improvements sought by the organization and enables students to understand the influence that ethical practices and standards have to play in their decision-making.

One of the significant impacts of globalization has been a marked increase in the complexity of the supply chain and associated networks. These challenges require procurement and supply leaders to develop and lead modern-day supply chains and understand the vital role that they have in the overall success of the corporate and business strategy.

This module is designed for such professionals as it focuses on the development, implementation, monitoring, and optimization of global supply chains and on the strategic influence of such chains on the achievement of competitive advantage.

Major programs are a key element in any organizational strategy, hence the successful leadership of them is a significant contributor to overall success.

This module is designed for those procurement and supply professionals who will be expected to develop and lead the implementation and monitoring of contracts from the strategic standpoint requiring a practical knowledge of the associated issues and approaches to program and project control.

To support organizational success procurement and supply have a significant role to play in influencing strategic suppliers to adopt innovative approaches and to continue to develop. Professional procurement and supply leaders are therefore expected to identify areas that offer the opportunity to improve and innovate and to lead and implement the associated processes.

This module is designed for procurement and supply leaders who require a clear knowledge of tools and techniques available to them to achieve improvement and innovation as well as an appreciation of the environmental factors which affect such initiatives.

Globalization generates significant opportunities as well as increased risks for organizations. This means that global logistics strategy, the flow of resources and information between a business or source and the consumer is regarded as a key element of organizational success. Personnel responsible for leading and developing global logistics strategy are seen as significant contributors to competitive advantage and overall business success.

This module is designed for procurement and supply leaders who are responsible for global logistics strategy and require knowledge and understanding of the associated challenges, governance, and requirements for successful strategic implementation.

The global agenda is becoming more and more prevalent in organizational success. As organizations increase overseas development, investment, and sourcing, business leaders are called upon to formulate and implement global commercial strategies.

This module is designed for professionals in procurement and supply chain leaders and takes as its focus the development; configuration and implementation of global commercial strategy to enable such leaders to help organizations achieve competitive advantage.

The volatile global environment poses a threat to traditional concepts of international trade and presents strategic challenges to the procurement and supply function and profession. Strategic procurement and supply leaders require knowledge of the present challenges for their function and profession and must be able to look ahead to prepare themselves for the future strategic challenges that they will undoubtedly be faced with.

This final module for those learners studying for the CIPS Level 6 Professional Diploma in Procurement and Supply is designed to challenge professional procurement and supply leaders to look ahead and to identify and consider ways to address the future strategic challenges that they and their professionals will face.

Until recently big data was seen as a technical issue that had to be addressed; however, organizations now view it as a business opportunity that can significantly contribute to competitive advantage and are now exploiting big data in all of its forms to discover facts that they did not know before. Given this propensity for data and the associated gathering and storage activity, supply chain cybersecurity is now a key requirement.

This module is designed for procurement and supply leaders who require a clear knowledge of the concept of big data and of the impact on data integrity and Cybersecurity.

Organizations are part of an interconnected network of other businesses and organizations; termed as the supply network. At a strategic level, the design and leadership of such networks are crucial to the effectiveness and efficiency of the associated supply chains, it is the operations processes that form a fundamental element of an organization’s strategic advantage. If materials and/ or information are to flow smoothly through the supply network and add value as a result, effective resource planning and control are essential.

This module is designed for procurement and supply leaders who require knowledge and understanding of the strategic supply network concepts, its configuration and influence to be able to assess the impact of operational strategy and resource planning and control.