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Description
A critical role that procurement practitioners serve is planning for contingencies when business operations are interrupted. Practitioners must understand how to determine risks and mitigate them through the creation of a business continuity plan.
Objectives
In order to successfully earn a digital badge, learners must:
- Explain the major steps to create a business continuity plan.
- Prioritize essential procurement functions.
- Identify the resources needed for each procurement function, activity, or task.
- Identify and evaluate risks to procurement operations.
- Identify any needs for policy or documentation changes.
- Create and compile back-up documentation.
- Plan communications strategies.
- Identify appropriate emergency contracts and internal entity agreements for specific events.
- Create a plan to execute the strategies such as prioritizing timelines, budgeting, resources, etc.
- Conduct formal emergency preparedness training.
- Test emergency preparedness policies and procedures.
- Determine lessons learned from a business interruption or simulation.
Intended Audience
This offering is targeted to individuals who meet or exceed the following professional demographics:
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Mid-level public procurement and central warehouse professionals who serve as senior buyers, managers, directors, or equivalent functions within their respective entities.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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