(Solution) CIPS Emirates Transport Company Advanced Practitioner Corporate Award APCM
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- Transport Company (ET) power distribution and risk of supplier and organisation.
- By evaluating the ET company, a general contract has been selected which is used in sourcing different products and services in the organisation.
- Through an analysis of the contract, the power distribution and risk of ET and their suppliers has been established. Through the use of statistics and desk research, appropriate findings have been obtained.
- Also, the Supplier Preferencing Matrix, Porter’s 5 Forces and Turnkey Models and SWOT analysis have been used. The findings indicate that the risks and power are significantly distributed amongst the different stakeholders.
(Solution) CIPS Emirates Transport Company Strategic Supply Chain Management SSCM
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- This assessment has focused on evaluating the supply chain map in Tyres spend category in ETC organisation.
- The relevance of this has been to enumerate the extent in which their supply chain is characterised by strengths and weaknesses as it influence the scope of the stakeholders interaction.
- Successful evaluation and eventual development of supply chain is core as it note on stakeholders visibility, ethical-best practice, risk management and costs reduction.
- Strengths identified to be associated with the 2-tier supply chain entail a high-level collaboration, cost reduction and managing time appropriately.
- ETC is found to gain from a high-level positioning in UAE Transport sector. This is with their innovation increasing since supply chain is integrated with technology use.
(Solution) CIPS FIDIC Contracts Advanced Practitioner Corporate Award (APCE)
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- In this report, an evaluation of a contract by Oracle which is FIDIC guiding their construction projects in more than 67 countries globally has been carried out.
- It is evident from the analysis that there are varying contractual terms having an influence on the power and risk distribution between a supplier and an organisation.
- The rationale of this is that a contract is a legally enforceable agreement between different parties with specific acts or practices to be put into account.
- The core report areas of focus of focus has included the issues of price, quality, construction projects delivery timeline and health and safety have been put into account on the extent in which the risk and power are distributed between the contractor and the organisations.
- In the components identified, it is evident that irrespective of whether the buyer or supplier executes the risk or power.
- Through the application of different tools such as Mendelow stakeholders matrix, SWOT analysis and others, distinct issues and risks characterised by various challenges in the construction projects execution with their mitigation approaches and risks have been evidenced.
- As evidenced from the Kraljic analysis, it is evident that contractual terms have a strategic relevance in the context of Oracle informing on their holistic leveraging on the risks and powers of the contract.
- In situations where Oracle fails in leveraging on contract holistic risks power balance, warrant and also insurance cover is used.
(Solution) CIPS FIDIC Terms and Conditions PDC
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- This report evaluates the terms and conditions that are applicable in a contract management process to improve its implementation.
- By referencing FIDIC organisation terms and conditions, their effectiveness in mitigating issues with time, unethical, quality, costs and performance management has been evaluated.
- These terms and conditions are grouped into the goods quality, guidelines of goods and services inspection, communication, and time extension.
- Part of the analysis involves the evaluation of performance measures essential to improve management and monitoring of the stakeholder’s involvement in the contract process.
- At the end, battle of forms has been evaluated, which involves failure to agree on set terms and conditions.
- To solve this, short-term rule and long-term rule and Lord Deming could be adopted.
(Solution) CIPS Final Project Advanced Practitioner Corporate Award (APPR)
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(Solution) CIPS Final Project Advanced Practitioner Level
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(Solution) CIPS Final Project Oman LNG LLC Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Procurement Activities
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(Solution) CIPS Leadership & Management in Procurement and Supply (APGLM)
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For this assessment of Advanced Practitioner Corporate Award, it include a business report which evaluate approaches to leadership and management within the organisation.
The organisation of focus is Hertfordshire and West Essex ICS NHS Procurement Services (HWE). As part of this business report, an evaluation of impact of leadership and management on HWE behaviours, leadership approaches to job satisfaction impact and sources of power and its application.
Further, part of this business report entail an evaluation of the relevance of equality and diversity policies in HWE. To obtain relevant findings in this report, different tools including PESTLE have been used.
Also, leadership styles models have been evaluated to note on their impact on organisation behaviour.
The findings in this report evidence that leadership and management are applied interchangeably. Further, leadership and job satisfaction have a direct correlation.
Also, the CIPS Module Notes and peer reviewed journals and publications note to influence staff wellbeing. The findings also evidence existence of individual-centric leadership process as best contrary to job-centered operating in high-level competitive business sector.
From the stakeholders analysis, by use of Mendelow Matrix, it identify different stakeholders as holding varying powers which are distributed and exercised for organisation success.
Finally, the findings indicate HWE equality and diversity policies as appropriate and relevant for the organisation with optimum gains attained.
From the identified gaps in the analysis, and conclusions made, various recommendations have been identified including;
- Pursue capacity development strategies (coach and mentor others) for facilitating appreciating leadership and management functions as followers
- Integrating situational and transformational leadership and management in HWE
- Investing in effective communication strategy to influence stakeholders functions
- Create a system for ensuring efficiencies in resolving all challenges
- Diversification of eProcurement system to harness equality and diversity of suppliers as part of their operations
- Merge HWE departments in procurement for enhancing efficiencies and eliminating wastes from roles duplicated in leadership and management process
(Solution) CIPS Leadership and Management in Procurement and Supply
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- This assessment has delved on evaluation of impact of leadership and management approaches in an organisation.
- By evaluation Woodplc organisation operating in UAE oil and gas sector, the organisation successful project implementation is to increase their offshore oil and gas exploration to increase with upwards of 10,000 new exploration wells which demand a high-level leadership and management.
- This similarly highlight the positioning of Woodplc in UAE and international oil and gas industry.
- A set of tools including RACI, Leadership Matrix, Mendelow and RACI were adopted in sourcing this assessment findings.
(Solution) CIPS Management of Resources to Support Development and Strategy Implementation
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(Solution) CIPS MER Developing Contracts
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In summary, this report has focused on evaluation the selection criteria and sourcing strategies for enabling appropriate selection of suppliers for goods, services and works. Through a focus on Ericsson organisation different spend categories, a set of sourcing approaches have been identified. The approaches have been evaluated through the application of different tools and techniques. This is with different available data from Ericsson spend categories being evaluated in detail. Further, for the different approaches, the risk analysis and potential challenges impacting their implementation. The findings indicate that there is no one-size-fits all approach for selection criteria and sourcing strategies. The best practice is dependent on the organisation category of spend and suppliers availability.
A set of recommendations can be provided for successful formulation of selection criteria and sourcing strategies. These include;
- In SWOT analysis, one of the identified weakness is failure to use technologies in their sourcing approach. As a best practice, Ericsson can make investments in modernised technology including AI, machine learning in improving their sourcing strategies
- Since there is no one-size-fits all approach of selection criteria and sourcing strategies, the best practice would be to harness collaborative and partnerships relations for success of their sourcing.
- Pursue a holistic L&D practices by the PS&M in order to understand the best sourcing approach which would be in a position of enhancing the overall process of sourcing
- Further, from the risk analysis, some of the risks identified are not UpToDate. Hence, it is important continuously updating supply chain networks for identifying potential risks which are internal and external.