Procurement & Supply Planning tools and techniques.

Learn how to Make purchasing strategies ,MRP, forecast, inventory policies and techniques to minimize supply costs.

Latest update -Sep 2023: Cahpter on Procurement optimization with Excel solver is added.
Welcome to Procurement & supply planning tools and techniques. In this course, we will learn  :
1-how to do forecasting for purchasing and procurement purposes?
2- What are the strategies we use for negotiation with suppliers?
3- how do make or buy decisions?
4- How to count for safety stock when buying finished products, materials, and components?
5- How to segment suppliers to maximize cost?
6- The difference between bidding strategies and when to choose each one of them.
7- The types of Contracts and when to choose one of them.
8- How to mitigate risk when sourcing
9- How to minimize cost using optimization techniques in Excel.
The course combines analytics and theory. during which, you will have a supply planning journey where you will be responsible for forecasting, planning for production, and Material requirement planning. 
About the Instructor:
Consultant in Supply Chain Management & Business Intelligence
Rescale Analytics – Dubai
• Supply chain and data science consultant for several national and multinational clients in the UAE and France.
• Data Scientist, Master of Science in Global Supply Chain Management from Bordeaux Ecole de Management, Bordeaux, France
Omar is a certified instructor in Supply Chain Analytics and holds a Master’s Degree in Supply Chain Management. He is also a Ph.D. candidate in supply chain and data science  at the University of Bordeaux
He is currently conducting workshops and seminars in Supply chain and data science as well as consultancy projects for Multinational companies. Haytham conducted more than 70 workshops and gave lectures for three and a half years in logistics, supply chain management, and data science.