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Strategic Sourcing in Food Industry (SSA)


Description
• Course Pitch
This course is designed to provide the learners with tools and frameworks for a strategic approach to supplier portfolio management and spend management by covering the following elements:
1. Supply Uncertainties
2. Tools and frameworks for a strategic approach to supplier portfolio management and spend management.
3. The concept of sustainable sourcing
4. How a sustainable sourcing strategy is able to help your business achieve Triple P (People, Planet and Profit) objectives?

This course learning and assessment will help you learn and apply the strategic sourcing tools and frameworks within your work/business context.

• Content & Assessment Guidelines
Please review the course outline below to set your expectations related to the content & certificate assessment needs for the course. You can complete the assessment and download Agribusiness Academy completion certificate. You can expect to complete this course and certification assessment in about 3-5 hours. We wish you a lot of success with the course/pathway and very sure that it will help you gain more clarity and execution confidence towards your outcome.

• Course & the Pathway Connection
This course can be pursued independently or as part of “Sustainable Sourcing” learning & reflection pathway. The pathway is designed to help you understand the opportunities and risks associated with sourcing in agribusiness value chains. Also, this pathway demonstrates how value propositions that have sourcing attributes within their competitive value proposition is helping them build profitable business models. The business examples and the business models designed within this pathway demonstrate that sourcing strategies and frameworks have a biggest contribution to make in building a safe, secured and sustainable food ecosystem. If you choose to enroll in the pathway, you'll have the option to receive an extra certificate upon completing the reflection exercise for the pathway. Enrolling to the pathway also gives you access to our facilitators via the AA Slack channel. You can review and enroll to the full pathway by following this link: https://lms.agribusiness.academy/catalog/index/cat:188

• Contact
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Content
  • Introduction and sourcing frameworks
  • Introduction of the course (01:10)
  • What is strategic sourcing? (02:03)
  • Kraljic matrix as a sourcing framework (05:03)
  • Sourcing strategies and execution structure (03:43)
  • Understanding uncertainities in different categories
  • Supply uncertainty in food processing (01:55)
  • Supply uncertainty in fish processing (01:02)
  • Supply uncertainty in dairy processing (00:50)
  • Supply uncertainty in meat processing (00:41)
  • Supply uncertainty in fresh fruit processing (00:58)
  • Getting the sourcing strategically
  • Coping with supply uncertainties in different food categories (04:14)
  • Tool for supplier assessment and selection (07:23)
  • Supplier performance management at Kelloggs (01:27)
  • Supplier collaboration drivers: Case scenario (03:51)
  • Spend analysis and spend management (02:16)
  • Sustainable sourcing
  • Managing a global supplier network (03:31)
  • Sustainable sourcing best practices at Unilever (02:05)
  • Managing commodity sourcing (02:15)
  • Discussion
  • Role of supplier in product development (04:08)
  • Value of Information sharing with supplier (04:12)
  • When to backward integrate? (03:10)
  • Relevance of sustainability labels in sourcing (02:06)
  • Relevance of trade barriers on sourcing (02:17)
  • your feedback
  • Thank you & follow up
Completion rules
  • All units must be completed
  • Leads to a certificate with a duration: Forever