On Demand: NIGP-CPP Module B Prep

Course Outline

The NIGP-CPP Module B Prep Course reviews the following key areas:

• Choose and implement strategic improvements for the procurement function.
• Identify, evaluate, and implement social and environmentally sustainable procurement policies and other procurement priorities.
• Advise the entity on how to resolve procurement related issues.
• Manage stakeholder expectations by communicating requirements, responsibilities, and outcomes.
• Create, lead, and provide holistic procurement program oversight.
• Identify opportunities for strategic contracting initiatives.
• Manage issues distinct to international business.
• Ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of asset management, warehousing, and logistics programs.
• Recommend options to dispose of assets to maximize residual value.
• Create policies and procedures to support an ethical workplace.
• Create a culture and system to foster continuous improvement.
• Provide procurement professionals development opportunities.
• Provide educational opportunities related to procurement best practices to all (non-procurement).
• Communicate programs, policies, and procedures in support of entity’s continuous advancement.
• Develop criteria for evaluation of internal and external relationships and procurement’s performance.
• Align procurement change with entity goals.
• Identify and address challenges and conflicts.
• Engage stakeholders in development of entity key performance indicators to achieve change implementation.
• Establish a continuous improvement plan.
• Identify how changes in global, national and regional economies affect operations.
• Obtain and manage budgetary resources to further procurement goals.

This offering is targeted to individuals who meet or exceed the following professional demographics:  

• Mid-level public procurement and central warehouse professionals who serve as senior buyers, managers, directors, or equivalent functions within their respective entities.   

• Non-procurement managers and supervisors who either provide procurement functions that support entity programs under delegated authority, or who already have a good understanding of basic procurement principles but wish to get more in-depth, hands-on training.   

• Professionals who are employed by local governing entities and special authorities (such as K-12 and higher education, publicly owned utilities, transportation providers, and other publicly funded or created entities) who either serve within or manage the procurement function.  

• Supplier managers and supervisors seeking to understand the public procurement function from a more in-depth holistic level, including the policies, standards, and procedures by which public entities must function.