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Level 2 Introductory Certificate to Purchasing and Supply	PDF
Buying Services
The Importance
Purchase to Pay Cycle Documentation
Who Needs to Hold Stock
A-Z
Negotiations
Outsourcing
So what have my suppliers ever done for me?

Level 3 Securing Supply	PDF
Digital Disaster
Don't be the weakest link
The Labour of love
Never knowingly delayed
Business Ethics
Climate change, carbon and cars
Obsolescence in the supply chain
Desperately seeking supplies

Level 3 Understanding the purchasing environment	PDF
Eastern progress
Sourcing vegetables from developing countries
Sustain or be obsolete
It's good to outsource
The regulatory environment and policy regarding competition
Commercial intelligence in the purchasing environment
Stand and deliver

Level 3 Purchasing Operations	PDF
Practical care
Buying smart
Fuelling change
Powerful connections
The best remedy
A TIC in the right box
Top of the class
A spark of inspiration

Level 3 Client and supplier operations	PDF
Performance tests
Crowd pleaser

Level 3 Purchasing in action	PDF
A ratings winner
Improved formula
The best remedy
Bold treatment works
Propelled into action
Ethical connections
Exchanges with interest
From prevention to cure

Level 4 Developing Contracts in Purchasing and Supply	PDF
Contract Formulation Diagram - Offer and Acceptance
Challenging Times
Clause and Effect
Competitive Spirit
Contract Management
Exemption Clauses

Level 4 Effective Negotiation in Purchasing and Supply	PDF
Emotional Intelligence
Allocation, allocation, allocation
Game Theory in Negotiations
Knowledge is power
Negotiation – Which Style suits you?
Negotiating with Suppliers
Where are you in the pecking order?
The Negotiation Process

Level 4 Managing Purchasing and Supply Relationships	PDF
Are we getting the message?
Evaluate to accumulate
Home truths
Great expectations
Partners in progress
Superpower buying organisations
The ups and downs of relationships
The effect of e-auctions on supplier relationship management

Level 4 Measuring Purchase Performance	PDF
Council Leaders
Counter Intelligence
Exceeding Good Savings
From Local to Global
Measurably better
Services Performance Measures
Supplier appraisal
The bottom line is...

Level 4 Purchasing Contexts	PDF
CIPS Principles of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Fire and Brimson
Global Concerns
History Lesson
Structuring the Purchasing Function
A time to tender

Level 5 Stores and Dispatch Management	PDF
Getting buyers on board
Transit plans
What the doctor ordered
Fully Loaded
Buying Freight Transport
Achieving Stock Service Levels using a "Push" and/or a "Pull" System
Selecting Freight Transport
The Coding and Classification of Goods

Level 5 Marketing for purchasing and supply	PDF
What is a Brand
Get Your Skills To Market
Arrogant devious slimeballs the enemy
Just like clockwork
Why You Should
e-Procurement
Global Decisions
How Do The Best

Level 5 Improving Supply Chain Performance	PDF
Are you properly equipped
Benchmarking
Getting well connected
Intro to P2P
Late payment and the Supply Chain
Temporary measures
Thinking aloud
Top tools

Level 5 Management in the purchasing function	PDF
Caveat venditor
Changes in law
Free your mind
Going through changes
Managing change
Staying power
Web communication
Generic models

Level 5 Operations Management	PDF
Category Management
Digital Disaster
Fully Loaded
Printing Money
Response Time
RFID
The mobile revolution (again)
Should P&SM professionals take the lead in the whole life costing process?

Level 5 Risk Management	PDF
A question of image
Are we setting the pace?
IT disaster recovery
Managing risk
Save your energy
Sourcing good Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Travelling right
What's on the horizon?

Level 5 The Machinery of government	PDF
NHS Purchasing Challenges
Shared Services; A growing business model
Steps to success
Shared values
Council Leaders
Developments in PFI
The efficiency agenda - What is it?
On target

Level 6 Supply Chain Management in Practice	PDF
Linking Strategy
Situational Leadership
TUPE
Wired into the Board
Prime Movers
Flour Power
Charitable Efforts
Access All Areas
Whats on the cards

Level 6 Advanced Project Management	PDF
Closing a Project
Six Sigma
Identification
PRINCE2
On target
Olympian task
A Game of Two Halves
Influence one step at a time

Level 6 Leading and Influencing in Purchasing	PDF
Benefits of value frameworks
Could you be one of tomorrow's leaders?
Getting ahead in procurement
Global Concerns
Hearts and minds
The futures right
What is a leader?
What's the big deal?

Level 6 Legal Aspects in Purchasing and Supply	PDF
A Slice of Lemon Tort
No Refund Given
Love me eTender
Service with a smile
Exposing deceit
Party to an agreement
From the inside out
Firm changes

Level 6 Finance for Purchasers	PDF
Product Based to Relationship Pricing
Show me the money!
Power Play
Costs in the round
Going out gets more expensive
Financial accounting V management accounting
Beyond budgeting or better budgeting?

Level 6 Strategic Supply Chain Management	PDF
Managing Supply Chain Vulnerability
Taking A Whole Supply Chain View
Sourcing Hotspots
Something to chew on
Retail with Detail