Positive Purchasing
Positive Purchasing – make procurement a strategic contributor to business success
Positive Purchasing is a specialist training and consultancy business. Their experienced team delivers procurement transformation programs, high impact training courses, process and tool-kits – helping organisations of all sizes make procurement a strategic contributor to business success.
With a team of over 65 people worldwide, over the past 13 years they have trained over 9,500 people and transformed the procurement capability of more than 200 organisations in 37 countries across the globe.
Methods
The learning and development programs deliver real and sustainable capability uplift for key procurement or negotiation skills. They provide inspirational in-house, open and eLearning courses based around the proven 5i® Category Management, Orchestra of SRM® (Supplier Relationship Management) and Red Sheet® Negotiation methodologies. Positive Purchasing also design and deliver bespoke training courses built around your unique and specific needs.
This world renowned training will develop the core procurement competencies for your specialist procurement team, establishing a common language and ways of working, and enabling a significant value increase from your organisation's sourcing approach, suppliers and supply base.
Positive Purchasing offer an extensive range of learning and development solutions which are available as stand-alone training solutions or as part of a managed procurement transformation. The competency assessment programs provide a measured analysis of individual and team gaps as the basis for a tailored learning and development program, enabling skills development to be targeted where needed most as they support you through every step of the journey towards achieving a more effective and capable organisation.
Positive Purchasing's flexible training options ensure that they have a solution to meet your needs. All delegates are able to access comprehensive reference and supporting materials, with options to subscribe to our full online resources, tools, templates and eLearning.
In-house courses
Modular and customisable to match your specific requirements, Positive Purchasing training courses have been carefully designed to maximise the learning experience. Using an Activity Based Learning approach, Positive Purchasing will link training within the classroom to real experience and to the issues currently faced by clients. Skilled education teams are able to draw upon their own procurement or negotiation practitioner expertise to bring the training to life with real-world examples and case studies. The blended learning combines a mixture of lecture styles, facilitated debate and use of video with group work to create a highly dynamic and engaging experience.
Positive Purchasing training is available in almost every country globally, with local language options in certain countries. Courses can be adapted for local cultures and ways of working.
Open courses
Positive Purchasing open courses follow a standard format. Ideally suited to individuals seeking a capability uplift or being incorporated as part of a personal development plan, these highly interactive events present delegates with a dynamic environment in which to share experiences whilst learning how to apply best practice tools and techniques.
Online courses and tool kits
Positive Purchasing offer a range of eLearning options, available as single modules or as a full course via our subscription-based 5i Online and Red Sheet Online tools. These combine extensive specialist eLearning courses - each highly interactive, video-based and using the very latest technology - with access to processes and a rich library of tools, templates and resources. A fully customised version, branded for your organisation, is also available with The Positive Purchasing Academy.
Our eLearning is the perfect complement for classroom training, enabling pre- and post-study for maximum learning impact. Positive Purchasing online courses are suitable for supporting a managed remote learning program for an entire global team where users can access modules on demand to progress at their own pace. The option of online eLearning modules is available, which can be uniquely developed for your organisation for topic areas where you need to develop capability across your team.