ITIL® 4 Practitioner: Supplier Management Self-Paced Online Course & Examination
The ITIL 4 Practitioner: Supplier Management self-paced online course gives you 12 months’ access to PeopleCert’s official eLearning, with interactive content you can complete at your own pace.
- Access to your online portal for 12-months
- Interactive eLearning course and sample exams
- PeopleCert online exam voucher
- Official ITIL publication (eBook)
- Get stuck or have questions? You can contact our experts directly for assistance.
The ITIL 4 Foundation certification is the pre-requisite and must be achieved prior to starting this course.
Course Overview
The ITIL 4 Practitioner: Supplier Management practice module focuses on how to ensure that the organisation’s suppliers and their performances are managed appropriately to support the seamless provision of quality products and services. This includes creating an optimised sourcing strategy, as well as closer, more collaborative relationships with key suppliers to uncover and realise new value and reduce the risk of failure. This course will help professionals to:
- Ensure the effective use of third-party services by establishing a common approach to sourcing strategy and managing supplier relationships
- Maintain a single point of control on active and planned supplier contracts and services
- Define strategies for the use of suppliers’ and partners’ services, to evaluate and select suppliers, and to ensure that consumed services meet or exceed agreed service levels, the cost of the consumed services is optimal, and associated risks are understood and controlled
- Improve customer satisfaction and loyalty
- Measure, assess and develop the Supplier Management practice capability in their organisation by using the ITIL Maturity Model.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the purpose and key concepts of the Supplier Management Practice, elucidating its importance in managing supplier relationships and ensuring value delivery from third-party services.
- Learn about practice success factors (PSF) and key metrics, essential for evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of Supplier Management in achieving optimal supplier performance and alignment with business goals.
- Explore Supplier Management processes, including key activities, and learn how to integrate them into your organisation's value stream to ensure seamless and effective supplier interactions.
- Focus on the key roles of the Supplier Management practice and understand how to position the practice effectively within your organisation. Develop the necessary competencies for managing supplier relationships and performance.
- Explore how Information and Technology can support and enable the Supplier Management practice to deliver improvements, providing tools and systems for efficient supplier tracking, evaluation, and collaboration.
- Focus on the role of partners and suppliers in the Supplier Management practice, understanding how to cultivate and maintain productive partnerships to enhance service delivery and business outcomes.
- Discover how the capability criteria support the practice's capability development, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and organisational requirements for effective Supplier Management.
- Learn strategies for succeeding with the Supplier Management practice and understand how it is supported by the ITIL guiding principles, ensuring the establishment of robust supplier management practices to achieve business goals and deliver value.
Who should attend
IT Service Managers, IT Service Integration Managers, IT Procurement Managers and Enterprise Architects.
Prerequisites
ITIL 4 Foundation certification is a pre-requisite for this course.
Exam & Certification
This course prepares participants for the examination leading to the ITIL® 4 Practitioner: Supplier Management certification.
- A 30-minute, 20 question, multiple-choice exam is administered by an independent examination body, PeopleCert.
- A passing mark of 65% is required to receive your certificate.
The exam is provided as an online examination voucher, which you will receive with your course access, via email from PeopleCert with information on how to register and schedule your exam. The examination is 30 minutes, please allow for an additional 30 minutes for set up and authentication. You will require a photo identification, quiet space, webcam, speakers and a reliable internet connection.
The exam schedule is available 24/7 so you can sit your exam at a time that suits you. Your voucher will be valid for 12 months, we do recommend you complete your examination soon after completing your course – this is when the information is fresh and relevant.
Course Material & Inclusions
Access to PeopleCerts official eLearning for 12-months. Each module includes a detailed learning checklist that takes you through the course structure and ensures you cover all key topics. PeopleCert eLearning is interactive and filled with multimedia elements, quizzes and activities that make your journey through the course engaging and enriching.
ITIL® 4 Practitioner: Supplier Management online exam voucher, valid for 12-months from date of issue.
The official ITIL 4 publication available from PeopleCert is included as an eBook. This will be provided as part of your PeopleCert exam voucher.
Recent customers
An amazing instructor who explained the content very clearly and at a very good pace. This was a good balance and approach. I found the worked examples very practical and very relatable to the Defence industry sector I work in.
Really good facilitation, kept me interested and shared so many practical applications.
Gave me a better understanding of concepts, theories and tools to formalise and improve my current relationship management.
The instructor was very professional and was able to explain each area thoroughly and is available for Q&A.
Learnt a lot that we can implement or improve on in our organisation. The presenter was clear, precise and could relate difficult concepts into language and scenarios we could relate to. Everyone came away from the course feeling that had learnt something valuable.
Catholic Education, Brisbane
The examples provided by the instructor as we were covering of material, made everything make sense. This helped during the exam. Pat was fantastic and engaging. Kept everyone on their toes and ensured he took the time to explain anything we were not clear on.
BAI Communications
The instructor was great and very interactive. He made sure we understood the material and gave ample opportunity for us to ask questions. He provided great examples which tied everything in.
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