Procurement & Supply Planning tools and techniques. (Udemy.com)

PROCUREMENT · SUPPLY PLANNING · MRP · MPS · EOQ · SAFETY STOCK · SUPPLIER SEGMENTATION · NEGOTIATION · INCOTERMS · CONTRACT MANAGEMENT · EXCEL SOLVER

★ Top Performer on Udemy for Business — Chosen by Companies for Procurement Team Training

This course is one of Udemy for Business’s top-performing supply chain courses — the platform used by companies like Nasdaq, Volkswagen, NetApp, and Eventbrite to upskill their teams. With 13,300+ enrolled students, it is the procurement course that corporate L&D teams select when they need their buyers, planners, and supply chain professionals to go beyond theory and actually know how to do the job.

★ The Complete Procurement Practitioner’s Guide — Not a Theory Overview

Most procurement courses on Udemy are 2–5 hours of concepts and frameworks. This course is 14 hours of hands-on, worked-example, do-it-yourself procurement practice — across 17 sections and 158 lectures. You will calculate EOQ with quantity discounts, build safety stock models, run MPS and MRP schedules, optimise sourcing with Excel Solver, apply the Krajlic matrix, analyse contracts, simulate negotiations with game theory, and measure supplier KPIs. Your hands and mind get to work from the first section. If you are building a career in procurement, this course is your practical handbook.

★ Taught by a Ph.D. in Supply Chain from the University of Bordeaux — With Real Client Experience

Haytham holds a Ph.D. in Supply Chain and Forecasting from the University of Bordeaux and a Master of Science in Global Supply Chain Management from Bordeaux École de Management. His consulting clients include Sephora France, Sharaf Group, Aster Group, DNO, PWC Training Academy Dubai, and the Higher College of Technology. Every procurement model, negotiation framework, and supply planning tool in this course has been applied in real client engagements — not adapted from textbooks.

★ End-to-End: From Procurement Strategy to MRP — 17 Sections Covering the Entire Procurement Function

This course covers the full procurement and supply planning function in one program: procurement strategy and process, supplier segmentation and risk, inventory management (EOQ, safety stock, seasonal products), demand forecasting, production scheduling (MPS), material requirements planning (MRP), make-or-buy decisions with optimisation, contract law and Incoterms, negotiation strategy and game theory, KPI measurement, and supplier evaluation. No other procurement course on Udemy covers all of these in a single, coherent program.

★ Procurement Optimisation with Excel Solver — Added by Student Demand

A full chapter on procurement cost optimisation with Excel Solver was added in September 2023 in response to student requests. You will optimise sourcing decisions with capacity constraints, transport and customs costs, fixed administrative costs, and volume discounts — the same type of model that sourcing analysts build for real supplier negotiations and contract awards. This makes the course uniquely analytical among all procurement courses on the platform.

Most procurement courses give you a map. This course gives you the tools to actually navigate. Across 17 sections and 14 hours of hands-on, worked-example content, you will calculate, model, optimise, negotiate, and plan your way through the complete procurement and supply planning function — from purchasing strategy and supplier segmentation to EOQ, MPS, MRP, contract law, Incoterms, and negotiation with game theory. Your hands and mind get to work from the first lecture.

The course is structured as a supply planning journey: you are responsible for forecasting demand, planning production with MPS, and determining material requirements with MRP — just as a procurement or supply planning professional does in practice. Along the way you will master the analytical tools that separate good procurement professionals from great ones: EOQ with quantity discounts, safety stock for finished goods and components, seasonal inventory with critical ratio, and procurement cost optimisation with Excel Solver.

This course is a top performer on Udemy for Business and is taught by a Ph.D. in supply chain from the University of Bordeaux who has trained procurement and supply chain teams at Sephora France, Sharaf Group, Aster Group, and PWC Training Academy Dubai. The analytical rigour comes from doctoral research. The practical relevance comes from live consulting. The depth comes from 14 hours of content that never brushes past a concept without making you apply it.

WHAT MAKES THIS COURSE DIFFERENT

[ FULL ]

17 sections — the entire procurement function

From procurement strategy to MRP, safety stock, forecasting, negotiation, game theory, Incoterms, and KPIs. No other single course covers the full procurement and supply planning function this comprehensively.

[ HANDS ]

Hands-on throughout — calculate, model, optimise

Every concept is worked through in Excel: EOQ with discounts, MPS, MRP, safety stock, critical ratio, Solver optimisation, supplier KPIs. You leave with models you can use tomorrow.

[ THEORY ]

Theory + analytics + negotiation strategy together

Most courses teach procurement process OR quantitative models OR negotiation. This course teaches all three — because the best procurement professionals need all three simultaneously.

TOOLS COVERED IN THIS COURSE

Microsoft Excel | Excel Solver | MPS & MRP Templates | Procurement Frameworks & Worksheets

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

✓ Understand the procurement function: types of organisational purchases, the procurement process, bidding strategies, RFQ and RFP, and the full purchasing cycle

✓ Segment your suppliers using ABC analysis, multi-criteria segmentation, and the Krajlic matrix — and develop a sourcing strategy for each quadrant

✓ Calculate EOQ with quantity discounts, marginal discounts, lead time, and sensitivity analysis in Excel

✓ Calculate safety stock using two methods for finished goods, materials, and components under demand and lead time variability

✓ Apply seasonal inventory management: critical ratio, point of maximum profit, and data table optimisation in Excel

✓ Forecast demand for procurement purposes using qualitative, quantitative, linear regression, and supply planning journey approaches