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Start Date: 14 Sep, 2025
End Date : 18 Sep, 2025
Duration   : 5 Days
 
Overall Description: 
This course focuses on integrating project management principles into the supply management process. In this course, you will learn how project management concepts could be applied to enhance supply management. You will also gain an understanding of the tools and techniques used to initiate, execute, manage, and control a project.
 
Course Objectives: 
Organize, plan, launch, track, and close a project.
Create a clear project objective and work breakdown structure.
Master project planning, execution and control skills.
Identify the skills necessary to lead or serve on a project team.
Utilize project management related techniques.
Create an accurate project timeline.
Incorporate uncertainties in project time and cost plans.
Use various project scheduling techniques.
Plan a project balancing the constraints of scope, time, cost and quality.
Complete project cost estimation and financial evaluations.
Build and maintain effective and efficient project procedures and processes.
Identify improvement opportunities to better manage supply chains.
Demonstrate proficiency in developing project plans and making sound decisions.
 
 
Course Outline (Content):
 
 
Project management versus Supply management
Key areas of Project Management Body of Knowledge.
Supply management and project management: similarities and differences.
Impact of early decisions on project success.
Classical project phases.
Project scope – parameters & constraints.
The concept of Value-for-Money project delivery.
The project supply chain.
 
The Project Environment – Objective Parameters
Opportunities and Problems.
Identifying, analyzing and managing project stakeholders.
Project Charter Development.
Beyond SMART Objectives.
Introduction to project planning.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS).
Task characteristics and duration assessment.
Planning and scheduling methods, including critical path scheduling.
The importance of schedule updating.
Incorporating planning in planning and scheduling.
Principles of project estimating.
Understanding resource estimating in projects.
Cost estimation techniques.
Implementing cost control.
Contingency and escalation.
 
The Project Environment – Subjective Parameters
Project quality and reliability issues.
Project information management.
Project communication management.
Project risk management.
Risk mitigation strategies.
Contingency planning.
Performance measures and indicators.
Project process maturity.
Root cause analysis.
 
Effective Project Relationships Management
Suppliers/contractors selection.
Project manager skills.
Building and sustaining professional relationships.
Trust and trust-building.
Principled negotiations.
Leadership skills.
Dealing with professional disagreements.
 
Project Execution and Closure
Change control processes.
Identifying measurements of project success.
Project monitoring.
Integrating project scope, time and cost.
Leading and lagging indicators.
Project plan update.
Project reporting: to whom and to what level?
Closing and evaluation the project.
Project success factors.
 
 
Who Should Attend?
Procurement Managers.
Inventory Managers.
Warehouse Managers.
Supply Chain Managers.
Supply Chain Professionals.
Procurement Professionals.
 
 
Course Methodology:
We utilize a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This training course will be conducted as a highly interactive workshop session. A variety of training methodologies will be used Before and during the course whenever applicable. Some of these methods are gamification, online pre-post test, role plays, self-assessment instruments, group exercises & case studies.