Certification Excellence in Strategic Procurement Capabilities

Recognising your organisation’s strategic procurement capability

Certification Gold is our highest award for an organisation’s ‘strategic procurement capability’. It has been designed for all progressive organisations that want to be leaders in the field of purchasing and supply management activity.

Our certification process rigorously assesses purchasing and supply management as a significant contributor to your organisation’s competitive advantage, effectiveness and efficiency. This service is available to your organisation after you have achieved our standard level of Certification.

Our strategic procurement capability assessment tool pushes the boundaries of your thinking, processes and policies to be truly leading edge. This delivers further enhanced performance and bottom line benefits, clear perception of your procurement function and a source of competitive advantage.

Scope and process for assessment

• Robust audit of your application for certification
• One to one interviews with key internal customers from within your organisation
• One to one interviews with key suppliers and their respective procurement managers
• Detailed assessment of up to 17 modules including supply relationship management, delivering successful projects, leadership, continuity planning, knowledge management and corporate social responsibility.

Organisations that have achieved our certification gold standard

• ASDA (Wal*Mart)
• Computer Sciences Corporation (Northern Region)
• BBC
• Honeywell (Novar)
• Essex County Council
• QinetiQ
• RHM Ltd
• Buying Team
• Zurich Financial Services
• PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP