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Competency Module: Relationship Management: Internal Customers & Suppliers

This course is designed to enhance your perspective on building relationships in your professional environment. You have likely developed your relationship skills building rapport and collaborating with your public procurement colleagues and your end …

Competency Module: Relationship Management: Internal Customers & Suppliers

This course is designed to enhance your perspective on building relationships in your professional environment. You have likely developed your relationship skills building rapport and collaborating with your public procurement colleagues and your end …

Debriefing Suppliers and Avoiding Protests

This self-paced mini-course is presented in a pre-recorded webinar format and includes a related text excerpt, quiz, and final assessment to gauge your understanding of the content. This course will explain that by taking the time to debrief your supplier…

Global Best Practice - Stakeholder Relationships

Procurement functions in three critical areas of stakeholder engagement: 1. conducting individualprocurements, 2. participating in entity-wide activities such as budgeting and strategic planning 3. continually improving the effectiveness of Procurement…

Global Best Practice - Supplier Relationship Management

Also called vendor relationship management, supplier relationship management (SRM) is best described as a set of processes and tools that organizations can use to ensure they receive the maximum value out of their relationships with suppliers. The two mai…

Government Procurement Magazine - August/September 2018

The August/September 2018 issue of Government Procurement magazine's in-depth article "Cooperative Procurement's Evolution" focuses on the changing role of cooperative procurement. Public procurement's role within an organization becomes more strategic as…

Government Procurement Magazine - January 2019

The December 2018/January 2019 issue of Government Procurement magazine features the results of a new NIGP benchmark study about public procurement compensation and retention. This in-depth article includes a 14-year salary trend for procurement professio…

Government Procurement Magazine - June/July 2020

Learning Lab 3 - RFP: Communication/Engagement with Suppliers

RFP Learning Labs Series This 10-part Learning Labs series uses the recently revised Global Best Practice (GBP) on Request for Proposals as the framework to delve into more detail on each of the elements in the GBP. Participants will receive handouts f…

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