Supply chain management for procurement practitioners: logistics, insurance policies and incoterms
This training explores the competencies needed for the efficient performance of logistics operations (ordering and replenishment, shipping documents, freight forwarding and insurance arrangements, warehousing, use of international trade terms/Incoterms 2010, etc.). It also explains the procedures for making loss/damage claims under the various types of insurance policies covering the transport and storage of goods and the execution of works and physical services, as well as professional liability insurance for consultancy services
Learning Objectives
- Internationally accepted principles of governing sound public procurement systems
- legislative and regulatory frameworks, as well as corresponding institutional models for successful discharge of the functions of a modern procurement system
- Economic theory, assessment tools and financial analysis techniques, as well as accounting standards relevant to public procurement operations
- Strategies and instruments for embedding social, environmental and human rights at the relevant steps of the procurement process/supply chain
- Promotion of corporate social responsibility through public procurement