Mastering Strategic Sourcing

About this course

Develop sourcing strategies that optimize cost and quality

• 10 lessons
• 1 h
• advanced

What you'll learn

• Distinguish between tactical purchasing and strategic sourcing across the seven-step sourcing cycle
• Articulate how strategic sourcing contributes to enterprise value beyond price reduction
• Build and interpret a spend cube across supplier, category, and business-unit dimensions
• Apply Kraljic-style segmentation to prioritize categories by profit impact and supply risk
• Conduct a structured supply market assessment including Porter's Five Forces analysis
• Develop a should-cost model that decomposes price into material, labor, overhead, and margin components

Finishing the course

• 40 knowledge-check questions along the way, so you know the ideas stuck before you move on.
• Watching is free and needs no account. Sign in to save your progress. Pass each lesson's quiz (60%+) to earn the certificate. Each certificate has its own public verification link to share, marked quiz-verified.

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