Procurement Management | Porto Business School

Create value for your organisation through excellence in Procurement Management

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In this programme I will:

Clarify the alignment between the company's strategy and the procurement strategy to create competitive advantages and improve its performance.
Understand the business environment and the motivations for a growing integration of the supply chain.
Recognise sources of competitiveness and planning of supply networks.
Identify opportunities for improvement by categories and plan procurement needs, characterise markets and design sourcing strategies by categories, applying better optimisation and innovation practices and tools.
Design business solutions for procurement and develop commercial relationships, leveraging bargaining power by adopting a more influential communication style and more structured, efficient and professional approach.
Design a dashboard for monitoring and controlling management performance of procurement and suppliers, and recognise support information systems.
Qualify, set up and plan projects, recognise the transformation of procurement organisations and outline the approach to stakeholders/promotion actions and alignment of goals of procurement projects.

Access to various case studies that will allow identifying practices and challenges to overcome in the area of procurement management.
A very practical approach based on group works and role-playing.
Access to a series of mentoring sessions to support individual development or the development of a corporate procurement project.

Financial Times'22

European Business Schools Ranking (Exec. Educ.)

Learn from experts

Criar espaços de debate e de grande interação entre especialistas da área e grupo de participantes.
Action Learning Groups

Pensar, através da geração de ideias e de forma dinâmica em grupos, em soluções concretas para determinados desafios.
Case Study Analysis

Procurar, através da análise de casos de estudo, a procura de soluções ou boas práticas a implementar em diversos contextos.
Peer Learning

Partilhar de conhecimentos/experiências de uma forma coletiva, entre os pares..
Role Playing

Simular situações reais em sala para aplicar conhecimentos teóricos
Peer-Coaching (opcional)

Partilhar reflexões, entre pares, de modo a construir em conjunto. Funciona em modo confidencial.

“'I was provided with important tools and knowledge that enabled me to efficiently implement a Procurement Department in my company. I recommend this programme to professionals who want to develop their knowledge in this area.'”
“‘It was a very interactive programme with experienced participants from different markets, which fostered the application of concepts to contemporary realities and contexts.’”
“'An organised, structured and interesting programme. It was important to come into contact with Purchasers from other business areas. It allowed us to reflect and find new solutions for our challenges.'”

Nuno Perestrelo

Procurement Manager | Luxaviation Group

Pedro Coelho

Purchasing Manager | Fresenius Kabi / Labesfal

Roberto Martinez Lopez

Procurement Dep. | Impetus