
02 December, 2021
Cut costs, find suitable suppliers and digitize procurement processes: Those are currently the big hurdles that the purchasing departments of many businesses are facing. How can organizations prepare their procurement teams to successfully manage those tasks?
The PwC Procurement Academy helps organizations of all industries and sizes to sustainably educate their procurement teams and ensure deep-dive knowledge transfer. With a diverse offer of different methodological approaches covering a wide range of specialized topics, your purchasing teams will expand their knowledge portfolio and optimize their working methods and outcomes.
The PwC procurement Academy is focused on selected future topics of procurement, such as digitization, sustainability and transformation. Aspects like game theory in awarding or advanced negotiations are also part of our training agenda.
“Modern procurement must be oriented towards future topics, which determine the success or failure in purchasing.”
Inflexible training structures and general standard topics are outdated. The PwC Procurement Academy takes an individual approach to focus on the industry and knowledge of its participants.
Impulse discussions, best-practice speeches, trainings, workshops, courses and coaching build the foundation of our best-in class Procurement Academy. With our selective approach, we offer a highly efficient and effective framework for educating your procurement teams.
Impulse discussions and best-practice speeches introduce you to one of our focus topics. Trainings and workshops offer application-based learnings with an in-depth introduction into the theoretical and practical knowledge of our experts. High-impact customized learnings ensure the maximum return on investment for procurement departments.
The PwC course offer provides an extensive learning pathway for your employee development. At the end of each training, all participants receive a certificate. The competency-based program offers the best practices, benchmarks and market knowledge required to advance the career of your employees.
Our 1:1 coaching and mentoring program provides leadership and executive employees with an experienced sparring and discussion partner.
Our 1:1 impulse discussion provides an in-depth debate and analysis of your procurement department centering around a topic of your choice. In an initial discussion, our dedicated experts elaborate together with you the application of the focus topic and its benefits for your specific use case.
With an individual and hands-on set up we jointly create first valuable insights, inspire your procurement department and reveal possible areas of improvement, which you may not have discovered yet – all of this is free of charge.
“Business development in times of digitization is characterized by fast and exponential change. Therefore, we base the PwC Procurement Academy on a lean and powerful concept enabling us to always match our client’s needs and contribute to further developing their procurement departments.”