How to structure the supplier and service provider selection process in line with purchasing policy and corporate strategy? How can you support them in their progress? This training course will help you organize your selection process and build sustainable supplier relations.
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How to structure the supplier and service provider selection process in line with purchasing policy and corporate strategy? How can you support them in their progress? This training course will help you organize your selection process and build sustainable supplier relations.
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Adapting the supplier panel to company strategy
Define supplier evaluation indicators
Build and optimize the supplier panel
Managing supplier relationships over time
Ensure regulatory compliance of service providers
Intended audience
Buyers, purchasing managers, general services managers.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of the purchasing function is desirable.
Practical details
Hands-on work
Alternating theoretical contributions and exercises. Case studies in sub-groups followed by collective debriefing.
Course schedule
1
Define the supplier profile corresponding to your purchasing strategy
Align purchasing strategy with corporate strategy.
Identify suppliers in line with the company's purchasing policy: sourcing and e-sourcing.
Qualify suppliers' strategies and motivations.
An ISO obligation: ensuring the supplier's ability to offer a compliant product.
Ensure regulatory compliance of service providers.
Case study
Analyze compliance between corporate purchasing strategy and supplier strategy.
2
Pre-evaluate suppliers before delivery
Analyze and evaluate the supplier during the RFI phase: select criteria to limit risks after the service has been provided.
Define non-negotiable criteria in the pre-selection phase.
Integrate CSR and sustainable development criteria into the pre-selection phase.
Evaluate the offer and its suitability for the organization's needs.
Analyze prices: understand how suppliers calculate prices to negotiate more effectively.
Set out your requirements to better negotiate and prepare your future KPIs.
Arbitrating price/delivery/quality: what approaches?
Exercise
Define critical criteria for pre-selecting suppliers: case study. Formalize quality criteria in specifications to help negotiate prices. Reverse auctions.
3
Evaluate suppliers after delivery
Define upstream the expected level of service: SLA concept.
Choose the key performance measurement indicators: the relevant KPIs.
Identify improvement actions to be implemented.
Assign a final grade to the supplier: calculate a score.
Hands-on work
Distinguish, in chronological order, between pre-selection criteria (RFI), expected service level (SLA), evaluation ratios (KPI) and scoring for a service provision.
4
Long-term supplier relationships
Evaluate suppliers as part of the supply chain.
Optimizing supplier relations: the SRM approach.
Develop best practices for managing the supplier panel over time.
Measure the performance of your purchasing department.
Hands-on work
Define self-assessment criteria for your purchasing department.
Customer reviews
4,3 / 5
Customer reviews are based on end-of-course evaluations. The score is calculated from all evaluations within the past year. Only reviews with a textual comment are displayed.
YANN D.
25/06/26
3 / 5
We have not (in my view) covered all the points set out in the programme
AURORE F.
25/06/26
4 / 5
The content is very interesting, but the presentation lacks dynamism.
MAÏTÉ G.
25/06/26
3 / 5
Parts 2 and 3 were covered in depth, whilst Parts 1 and 4 were covered less thoroughly. Despite the trainer’s best efforts, the course content is very theoretical. It lacks the practical methodologies, tools and resources needed to analyse the supplier base and implement the supplier evaluation process within organisations. However, all the topics in the programme were covered.
UGUR S.
25/06/26
4 / 5
I haven’t had any formal training as a ‘buyer’, so I’m learning a great deal.
SYLVIA M.
25/06/26
4 / 5
Some of the topics covered in the programme are not covered in as much detail as one might have hoped. Yet it is precisely this detail that made us choose your centre. Furthermore, having completed a course on the fundamentals of procurement, I realised that the trainers do not share the same vision of procurement. This can be confusing for learners who, like me, are in the process of completely overhauling their processes and policies.
ERIC J.
25/06/26
4 / 5
- Lost 1 hour of training due to a IT issue at the start of the session - The delivery could have been more effective, as it had been during other sessions of the certified procurement training course - Face-to-face class; then, in the end, a hybrid format with two people on site and five joining remotely; which made it difficult to complete the exercises.
FRÉDÉRIC L.
09/10/25
4 / 5
Clear and accessible
CORALIE H.
09/10/25
5 / 5
Very interesting, lively and informative. A patient and highly educational trainer.
VIRGINIE M.
09/10/25
5 / 5
Rich, dense and very interesting content. Top-notch teaching.
TALLAL B.
09/10/25
4 / 5
Good training, but I personally would have liked to see written support for each module.
ALEXANDRA D.
09/10/25
4 / 5
the content was very comprehensive. i will certainly recommend this course to my colleagues.
JULIE S.
09/10/25
4 / 5
I found the course content extremely comprehensive and dense. However, I found it difficult to identify and prioritise the elements that were most relevant to my professional context, as this relevance varies greatly from company to company. For a more in-depth understanding, I would benefit greatly from incorporating many more practical exercises and detailed case studies in order to fully master all the tools presented.
MARIA FABRY GUYLAINE R.
09/10/25
5 / 5
I learnt a lot and it made me want to know more about purchasing in general - thank you Joaquina!
VALÉRIE W.
09/10/25
5 / 5
As I was involved in public procurement, I had to make a few adjustments to adapt the training to my field.
KATAYOUN F.
02/10/25
5 / 5
Excellent training!
ANTOINE C.
02/10/25
4 / 5
listening to and taking into account the different levels and experience of trainees
PARTICIPANTS
Buyers, purchasing managers, general services managers.
PREREQUISITES
Basic knowledge of the purchasing function is desirable.
TRAINER QUALIFICATIONS
The experts leading the training are specialists in the covered subjects. They have been approved by our instructional teams for both their professional knowledge and their teaching ability, for each course they teach. They have at least five to ten years of experience in their field and hold (or have held) decision-making positions in companies.
ASSESSMENT TERMS
The trainer evaluates each participant’s academic progress throughout the training using multiple choice, scenarios, hands-on work and more.
Participants also complete a placement test before and after the course to measure the skills they’ve developed.
TEACHING AIDS AND TECHNICAL RESOURCES • The main teaching aids and instructional methods used in the training are audiovisual aids, documentation and course material, hands-on application exercises and corrected exercises for practical training courses, case studies and coverage of real cases for training seminars.
• At the end of each course or seminar, ORSYS provides participants with a course evaluation questionnaire that is analysed by our instructional teams.
• A check-in sheet for each half-day of attendance is provided at the end of the training, along with a course completion certificate if the trainee attended the entire session.
TERMS AND DEADLINES
Registration must be completed 24 hours before the start of the training.
ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Do you need special accessibility accommodations? Contact Mrs. Fosse, Disability Manager, at psh-accueil@orsys.fr to review your request and its feasibility.
This programme is an original creation, developed by the teaching teams at ORSYS Formation. Any reproduction, representation, adaptation or use, in whole or in part, without the prior written authorisation of ORSYS, is strictly prohibited. ORSYS reserves the right to take any action necessary to protect its intellectual property rights.
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This programme is an original creation, developed by the teaching teams at ORSYS Formation. Any reproduction, representation, adaptation or use, in whole or in part, without the prior written authorisation of ORSYS, is strictly prohibited. ORSYS reserves the right to take any action necessary to protect its intellectual property rights.