Leading global excellence in procurement and supply

BUSINESSforCIPS

Achieve sustainable value delivery from your supplier base

• have the skills to spend your organisation’s

money wisely and effectively manage

suppliers

• are operating to a professional standard

and continually building their skills

and capabilities.

AS AN ORGANISATION, YOU NEED TO ENSURETHAT YOUR PROCUREMENT TEAMS:

CIPS answers your needs...

...by building skills, knowledge

and capability within

procurement and supply

chain teams to help your

organisation achieve

sustainable value.

CapabilityDevelopmentBuild strong skills for strongprocurement and supplier management

CIPS FOR BUSINESSCIPS FOR BUSINESS

CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT

KEY ISSUES KEEPING CPOS AWAKE AT NIGHT

The CIPS business portfolio is clearly

aligned to meet this trio of needs,

as shown in our CIPS for

Business triangle. This makes it

easier for your organisation

to access our products and

services, and to gain the

maximum benefit from

working with CIPS.

CIPS FOR BUSINESS

PERFORMANCE

CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT

SUPPLY ASSURANCE

AND COMPLIANCE

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2

3

Do your teams have the procurement skills to spend wisely?

Can you ensure there isn’t a problem lurking inyour supply chain and, if there is, can you fix it?

Can you keep improving and keep deliveringthe results you’re being challenged to

achieve?

...sustainable value from their supplier base

AnsweringneedsNo matter what their size, sector or geography,

organisations are increasingly focused on achieving...

CIPS CapabilityDevelopment

Capability building forstrongprocurement and supply management...

Maximises:

• Procurement team skills and

performance

• The value procurement brings

• Supply chain risk management.

Improves:

• Influence and control over

spend

• Customer service and quality

• Compliance with legislation

• Brand reputation and business

sustainability.

Strengthens supply chain:

• Responsiveness, for the right

solutions when you need them

• Reliability, for cost-efficient

and timely delivery to meet

demand

• Resilience, for continuity of

service when the unexpected

strikes

• Relationships, for increased

loyalty, quality and motivation.

BENEFITS

BUSINESSforCIPS

Independent and trusted, CIPS is in the bestposition to help your organisation achieve

sustainable value delivery.

The Chartered Institute of Procurement and

Supply (CIPS) is the world’s largest professional

organisation dedicated to procurement and

supply. We act as the profession’s ‘voice’,

provide globally recognised qualifications,

and support organisations and individuals

to achieve excellence in procurement.

With our latest call for a Licence to

Practise, we have also become the

champion for ethical procurement

and supply.

No matter where in the world your organisation orprocurement teams are located, no matter whatsector you operate in, and no matter what level youneed to build skills at, CIPS provides you with practicaladvice and solutions to develop your team’s skills.

CIPS for Business Capability Development focuses on continually

building your procurement team’s skills to enable them to spend your

money wisely, manage your suppliers effectively and achieve optimum

outcomes, maximising your contribution to your organisation’s

objectives and helping to make procurement a critical contributor to

business success.

From building individual skills and helping organisations to understand

skill sets within teams, to running multi-year accredited qualification

programmes and targeted training, CIPS helps public and private sector

organisations around the world to upskill in readiness to tackle future

challenges.

CIPS FOR BUSINESSCIPS FOR BUSINESS

CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT

Skills Benchmarking to identify the skillsrequired for each of the roles withinyour team and analyse the talents anddevelopment needs of yourprocurement and supply function.

Global Standard

Determine the level of knowledge and skills you

need in your team with a comprehensive

competency framework setting out the skills and

abilities required at all levels of responsibility within

procurement and supply management.

Skills Gap Analysis

Identify the skills in your team to help with people

development and succession management with an

in-depth procurement training needs assessment,

allowing you to target your spending to make best

use of budgets. Carrying out a Skills Gap Analysis

post training also allows you to evaluate the impact

of any training you have carried out.

Accredited Learning to achieve the highest professionalstandards and greatest organisation value.

Corporate Award

Develop your teams’ skills and see learning directly and immediately

applied in your workplace with a practical, accredited training

programme in procurement and supply tailored to your business

that offers a route to full MCIPS membership.

Professional qualifications to support procurementskills growth and drive value back into yourorganisation.

Qualifications Programmes

Claim consistently high levels of competence and professionalism

across your whole procurement team, with professional

qualifications programmes that are globally recognised as driving

leading-edge thinking and excellence in procurement, and

culminate in the opportunity to join CIPS as a full MCIPS member.

CIPSSolutions

Different organisations will require different approaches to Capability Building,depending on your aims, your business structure and your current level of procurement

practice. Whether you’ve identified that your team need to boost specific skills in theshort term, or you're looking for a comprehensive programme of skills assessment, we

work with you to implement a Capability Building programme best suited to you. Ourindividual programmes and solutions include the following:

A comprehensiveapproach to upskillingyour procurement and

supply teams

CAPABILITY DEVELOPMENT

Skills Training to address specific needs andprovide team or individual support.

Tailored Skills Training

Realise the full potential of your procurement and

supply teams with targeted and customised one-off

courses designed to fill gaps in procurement skills and

knowledge.

E-learning

Support your procurement capability building with our

award-winning online learning system that comprises

over 250 hours of authoritative training, covering every

CIPS qualification level, allows your people to fit their

studies around their work schedules, and supports

general upskilling in procurement and supply.

Resources to enhance your teams’ abilitiesto do their day-to-day jobs.

CIPS Membership

Become a member of CIPS and give your procurement

people, wherever they are in the world, online access to

a wealth of benefits, including all of the resources

within CIPS Knowledge, along with networking events,

careers support and more.

CIPS Knowledge

Access from anywhere in the world the most

comprehensive, reliable and relevant online source of

procurement and supply management knowledge and

the world, split into searchable sections including, tools,

templates, topics, skills, categories and commodities.

Large-scale learning programmes toachieve consistently high level skills acrossyour entire procurement function.

Corporate Academies

Advance the skills of large procurement and supply

chain teams to deliver measurable cost benefits and

return on investment through our multi-year, multi-

location people development programmes that are

fully managed by CIPS and customised to your

organisation.

Learning Management to support andschedule procurement learning withinyour organisation.

Learning Management System

The CIPS online Learning Academy supports

you to schedule, monitor and report on

procurement learning, and track your

people’s continuing professional

development progress.

Programme Management

Our experienced and efficient

project managers can help

your organisation to plan and

implement CIPS learning

programmes to give you

the best results.

The overall savings from the first wave of students was

$1.1m in value proposition.

CATERPILLAR PERKINS

CORPORATE AWARD

Your partner forprocurement excellence

The professional bodyThe world’s largest professional

body serving procurement and

supply; a not-for-profit organisation

that reinvests any surplus into

developing the profession.

The awarding bodyWe set the academic standards

globally in procurement and supply

and are the awarding body

regulated by OFQUAL in the UK for

P&SM qualifications.

A membership organisationWe have the largest membership of

procurement professionals in the

world, covering all industries,

sectors and job activities in

procurement and supply.

A commercial organisationAlthough not for profit, our policies,

procedures, plans and work

practices are managed at the

highest level of commercial

acumen.

Leading global excellence in procurement and supply

Europe: +44 (0)1780 756777 • Africa: +27 (0)12 345 6177 • Asia Pacific: +65 6808 8721

Australasia: +61 (0)3 9629 6000 • MENA: +971 (0)4 311 6505

Email: corporate.solutions@cips.org • www.cips.org/cips-for-business

ABOUT CIPS

CONTACT US

Global networksWe have a community of over 106,000

in over 150 countries; 200 study centres

worldwide; 120 examination centres;

subsidiary offices in Africa, Singapore,

the Middle East and Australia; and

additional partnerships in America,

China and Europe.

The body of knowledgeWe have a wealth of procurement and

supply knowledge which is continually

evolving and which we use for the

benefit of the organisations we work

with.

BenchmarkingOur vast experience of working with

organisations across a spectrum of

industries and sectors help us to help

organisations to constantly benchmark

and improve their performance.

Advocacy and profilingWe act as an advocate on behalf of not

only the profession, but also the

organisations we work with, promoting

success stories and sharing good practice

and business excellence.

JLR has enjoyed a fruitfuland beneficial relationshipwith CIPS since 2009. We

find CIPS to be relevant to abusiness like us, with itscomplex procurement

demands and increasinglyinternational outlook.

JAGUAR LANDROvER

QUALIFICATIONS PROGRAMME

very good course, and the tutors were first-class.

DONG ENERGY

TAILORED SKILLS TRAINING

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