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Effective Vendor Management

  • Course Code GK2959
  • Duration 1 day

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  • GTC 5 inc. VAT

    GTC, Global Knowledge Training Credit, please contact Global Knowledge for more details

Public Classroom Price

£595.00

excl. VAT

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

  • Company Event

    Event at company

  • Public Classroom

    Traditional Classroom Learning

  • Virtual Learning

    Learning that is virtual

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Course Overview

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Maximize the success of your vendor relationship-and the success of your project.
Your relationship with your vendors can often make or break a project baseline. In this short course, you will learn best practices for managing the vendor relationship from initiation to close, including documenting requirements, negotiating contract terms, and evaluating proposals. You'll learn how and why to establish clearly defined roles and responsibilities between you and your vendors.

 

This virtual short course, specifically designed to give you a quick convenient way to renew and refresh your project management skills, maintain your Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification, and earn PDUs on your own time, at your own pace.

 

Virtual short courses do not include materials or headsets.

 

PMP is a registered mark of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

Course Schedule

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    • Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
    • Date: 17 June, 2024
    • Location: Virtual

    £595.00

    • Delivery Format: Virtual Learning
    • Date: 23 December, 2024
    • Location: Virtual

    £595.00

Target Audience

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PMP-certified project managers, IT project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, product managers, program managers, project sponsors, and project team members who want to continue to develop their skills and renew their PMP certification.

Course Objectives

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  • The importance of the vendor contract
  • Vendor communication planning
  • Vendor management plan
  • Vendor contract closeout

Course Content

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  • Establishing the vendor relationship
  • Creating the vendor management plan
  • Documenting the vendor communication plan
  • Managing vendors throughout the project life cycle
  • Dealing with vendor issues
  • Vendor contract closeout

Course Prerequisites

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  • There are no prerequisites for this course.

Follow on Courses

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  • IT Risk Management
  • Program Management
  • Requirements Development, Documentation, and Management
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