Week 1 Task: Procurement Strategy Development:

The first task requires you to develop a comprehensive procurement strategy for a hypothetical country. You should consider factors such as market conditions, supplier base, logistics, and legal issues specific to that country. This task will help you understand the complexities involved in procurement at a country level. Deliverables: A Word document detailing your procurement strategy. Key steps: Identify key commodities for procurement, analyze market conditions and supplier base, consider logistics and legal issues, and develop a procurement strategy accordingly. Evaluation criteria: Clarity of thought, depth of analysis, realistic strategy, and presentation of the strategy.

Week 2 Task: Supplier Relationship Management:

The second task involves developing a supplier relationship management (SRM) strategy for the key suppliers identified in the previous task. This should include a process for evaluating supplier performance, mechanisms for improving supplier relationships and techniques for mitigating supplier risk. Deliverables: A Word document detailing your SRM strategy. Key steps: Define key performance indicators (KPIs) for suppliers, devise a scorecard system for evaluating supplier performance, develop strategies for improving relationships and mitigating risk. Evaluation criteria: Effectiveness of KPIs, realistic evaluation system, and practicality of relationship improvement and risk mitigation strategies.

Week 3 Task: Procurement Contract Review:

The third task requires you to review and analyze a hypothetical procurement contract. This involves identifying potential risks and issues, suggesting mitigation strategies, and proposing improvements to the contract terms and conditions. Deliverables: A Word document detailing your analysis of the contract, identified risks and issues, mitigation strategies, and proposed improvements. Key steps: Review the contract, analyze terms and conditions, identify potential risks and issues, and develop mitigation strategies and improvements. Evaluation criteria: Depth of analysis, quality of risk identification, effectiveness of mitigation strategies, and value of proposed improvements.

Week 4 Task: Procurement Process Improvement:

The final task is to improve the procurement process based on procurement data analysis. You should identify bottlenecks or inefficiencies in the current process, suggest improvements, and present a revised process flow. Deliverables: A Word document detailing your analysis of the current process, identified bottlenecks or inefficiencies, proposed improvements, and a diagram of the revised process flow. Key steps: Analyze the current process, identify inefficiencies, develop improvements, and create a revised process flow. Evaluation criteria: Depth of analysis, quality of identified inefficiencies, effectiveness of proposed improvements, and clarity of the revised process flow diagram.