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CIPS Advanced Diploma - Level 5

Study your CIPS Advanced Diploma in London

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The CIPS Advanced Diploma, Level 5 is intended for people who have previously worked in the supply chain in a largely operative or supervisory role and have the Foundation Diploma qualification or equivalent. Delegates with previous academic and professional experience are advised to consult CIPS with regard to possible exemptions.

The Advanced Diploma consists of five units of which three are compulsory and two are optional. There are six optional units for candidates to choose from which include the Sustainable Procurement unit. Click on the modules tab above to see the course modules in more detail.

MANAGEMENT IN THE PURCHASING FUNCTION

(Compulsory Core Unit)

This unit is designed to enable students to manage their own area of responsibility within an organisation’s internal supply chain, in line with the overall strategic business plan and the operational plan for the purchasing function.

Students should be able to implement operational plans for their own area of responsibility to achieve objectives set out in their plan. In doing so they should be able to employ a range of resources, including human, physical and financial, and manage and delegate tasks effectively.

This unit is about managing the expectations of the stakeholders that are directly involved in the student’s own area of responsibility and will provide them with management techniques to help them to involve others, be innovative, consultative, influential and persuasive in order to achieve targets effectively.

RISK MANAGEMENT AND SUPPLY CHAIN VULNERABILITY

(Compulsory Core Unit)

This unit is designed to enable students to undertake risk analysis and a variety of risk assessments relating to different aspects of purchasing and supply and to implement a range of appropriate risk management tools and techniques.

Students will use a variety of risk assessment tools and techniques designed to provide a detailed analysis of supply chain situations, including legal, corporate social responsibility (CSR), ethical, health and safety, financial, international, innovation and a variety of other potential risk scenarios. The scope covers both the proactive identification and avoidance of risk, as well as provision for post-event recovery initiatives.

By the end of the unit students should be able to apply a variety of tools and techniques, in a diverse range of contexts, to proactively establish the level of risk presented and to recommend ways of avoiding, mitigating or managing those risks.

IMPROVING SUPPLY PERFORMANCE

(Integrative Unit)

This unit is designed to consolidate the learning from the other two compulsory units in the CIPS Advanced Diploma. You will be assessed through either a case study exam or an assignment.

Achieving success within the supply chain involves a complex range of variables, which can frequently be dependent on one another for the success of the supply chain.

This unit is designed to enable students to use a range of techniques and strategies to develop and improve supplier performance in order to achieve competitiveness, efficiency and profitability within the supply chain.

By the end of this unit, students will be able to measure and evaluate the effectiveness of supply chain performance. They will be able to identify innovative development of systems to improve the performance of the supply chain, and make justifiable recommendations for implementation in order to aid the effectiveness of the supply chain.

MARKETING FOR PURCHASERS

(Optional Unit)

This unit is designed to provide students with an appreciation of the marketing concept, the role of marketing within an organisation, marketing’s relationship with purchasing and supply, and marketing’s contribution to the overall strategic plan.

Students will be introduced to marketing concepts, methods and techniques that are used to develop marketing plans with the ultimate aim of achieving customer satisfaction. These techniques may be applied to both notfor- profit and commercial organisations.

By the end of the unit students should be able to evaluate and apply marketing tools and techniques, in a range of contexts, to achieve customer satisfaction.

STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION

(Optional Unit)

This unit is concerned with helping students to identify the major areas of concern in effectively managing stores and distribution throughout the supply chain. It is essential that goods are moved through supply chains to customers at the right time, in the right condition, at the right place and at the right cost. Failure in any of these areas will add unnecessary costs to the ultimate customer while success will add value, and delight the customer.

It is essential that storage, distribution and general logistics are coordinated, both upstream and downstream, in order to reduce lead times, provide agility and reduce unnecessary costs. In order for this to happen it is essential that relationships, both internally and externally, are honed to the appropriate level.

To be effective, storage and distribution must fit in a seamless way to the total supply chain locally, nationally and globally.

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN

(Optional Unit)

This unit is designed to enable those who work in purchasing to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of an organisation’s operations. This is the process of converting input resources into output products and services and occurs in all types of organisation, whether in manufacturing or services, public sector or private.

Students should be able to understand how operations staff add value to its inputs through the effective management of production and delivery. Operations staff are likely to be the most important internal customers of purchasing and supply chain managers.

By the end of this unit students will be able to analyse and evaluate an operations environment and implement a strategic plan that allocates resources in terms of materials, labour and machinery. In addition they will be able to consider the infrastructure requirements of the management control systems, as applied to different process types and technologies, and select the right approach.

A Message from the CIPS Programmes Director

May I take this opportunity in thanking you for your interest in our CIPS programmes. The purchasing function is now seen in both public and private sector organisations as a key provider of bottom line profitability. Its profile has risen considerably over the past twenty years, underpinned by the increased take up of qualifications in the area, notably the Graduate Diploma in Purchasing Supply issued by the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.

The CIPS Graduate Diploma is the lead qualification for people in the fields of purchasing, logistics, transportation, stores and supply chain management. In itself, the qualification is an essential tool in obtaining senior management jobs in supply chain management as well as the opportunity to progress to our postgraduate programmes. Those who successfully obtain the CIPS Diploma may be offered direct admission to the University of Plymouth MSc in Strategic Procurement Management (Level 7) delivered at Greenwich School of Management.

Greenwich School of Management runs all three levels of the CIPS Graduate Diploma: Level 4, Level 5 and Level 6. The programme is delivered on a part-time basis at the weekend. Students can join in February or September. Successful completion of the programme leads to corporate membership of the CIPS Institute and the use of the designatory letters MCIPS.

Tamara Solomun
CIPS Programmes Director

A Message from the CIPS Programmes Director

May I take this opportunity in thanking you for your interest in our CIPS programmes. The purchasing function is now seen in both public and private sector organisations as a key provider of bottom line profitability. Its profile has risen considerably over the past twenty years, underpinned by the increased take up of qualifications in the area, notably the Graduate Diploma in Purchasing Supply issued by the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.

The CIPS Graduate Diploma is the lead qualification for people in the fields of purchasing, logistics, transportation, stores and supply chain management. In itself, the qualification is an essential tool in obtaining senior management jobs in supply chain management as well as the opportunity to progress to our postgraduate programmes. Those who successfully obtain the CIPS Diploma may be offered direct admission to the University of Plymouth MSc in Strategic Procurement Management (Level 7) delivered at Greenwich School of Management.

Greenwich School of Management runs all three levels of the CIPS Graduate Diploma: Level 4, Level 5 and Level 6. The programme is delivered on a part-time basis at the weekend. Students can join in February or September. Successful completion of the programme leads to corporate membership of the CIPS Institute and the use of the designatory letters MCIPS.

Tamara Solomun
CIPS Programmes Director

Teaching and Administrative Personnel


Sheldon Dyer MCIPS
Sheldon has more than 20 years of experience in purchasing/supply chain, working for several major international organisations.

Sheldon qualified through Rubicon Training here at Greenwich School of Management and now passes his extensive experience on to the current students by relating the training back to personal experiences. Sheldon has taught levels 4, 5 & 6 of the CIPS graduate diploma.

Wayne Herring MCIPS Wayne Herring MSc, MCIPS, has over twenty years teaching experience at Southall, Watford, Harlow and Writtle colleges and was an examiner with Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply for five years. Wayne is the Director of Rubicon Training, one of the largest CIPS trainers in the UK. He has many years industrial experience in purchasing and has worked for TI Raleigh in Nottingham, Providence Capitol in Birmingham and Astron On Line in Huntingdon. He is Training Consultant to many organisations including the Office of Government Commerce and Arrow Electronics.

Steve Langford MCIPS
Steve Langford, MCIPS, has over twenty years experience in the purchasing/supply chain function and has been teaching CIPS graduate diploma for five years at Writtle College, Manchester and Greenwich School of Management in London. Steve’s background has been in the electronics industry, working for companies such as BT, Farnell, Arrow Electronics, Raytheon Systems and latterly America II Electronics.

David Chidley MCIPS
David has an extensive purchasing history in defence, aerospace, military and medical applications. Now a Purchasing Manager with Ironmongery Direct, a major supplier to the building industry market achieving enormous growth year on year since 2007.

Dave has extensive lecturing experience ensuring syllabus studies are taught to support all individual needs. Dave is currently teaching at Level 4, Level 5 and Level 6 at Greenwich School of Management and Writtle College. Dave has qualified through Rubicon Training.

Graeme Ellison, MCIPS
Graeme has been in the buying environment for over six years. Having worked in a variety of industries from large mutli-nationals to independent manufacturing companies in the private sector, in engineering, military to the furniture industry. Dealing with unique one off purchases of military spec items to mass production multi site deliveries of JIT items. Dealing with both UK to Eastern European and Far Eastern companies. He qualified through Rubicon Training at the Peterborough site, building on the many different lecturers he has experienced both at university and through Rubicon to deliver a hands on approach which tries to relate back to real life experiences in purchasing. He has taught at levels 4,5 & 6 in the CIPS programme, both at Greenwich School of Management and Peterborough.

Vincent Milsom
Vincent is a Procurement and Corporate Real Estate professional with broad commercial experience of strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management, best practice procurement tools and techniques and corporate real estate management gained within leading blue chip services organisations.

Katie Jarvis MCIPS
Katie Jarvis has worked in purchasing for over 10 years in which time she has undertaken buying for various industries ranging from catering to electronics to the current role within agriculture. Katie buys a wide variety of products in her present role including animal feed, building supplies, vehicles and telecommunication products and services.

Purchasing takes many forms in this role from spot buying through to very detailed volume planning for call off orders over a long period of time.

Katie also has her own purchasing business whereby she assists companies in their buying and sourcing requirements. This is a new venture that is slowly gaining momentum.

Outside work Katie's two main hobbies to relax are motorsport and walking her two black Labradors.

Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply Graduate Diploma Fees

Foundation Diploma (Level 4)
£3000

Advanced Diploma (Level 5)
£3000

Graduate Diploma (Level 6)
£3000

(includes 5 modules and study books)

Examination Fees are payable directly to CIPS Institute.

Annual CIPS Membership payable directly to CIPS Institute.

Tuition fees are payable to Greenwich School of Management.

Entry Dates

The Course members can commence the programme in February, June or September. Each module will be delivered over two weekends (Saturday and Sunday). In addition, there is a revision day (inclusive within the course fee) prior to the examination.

CIPS Membership

Course members should apply directly to CIPS for membership of the Institute. The Course Director will advise course members on application procedure. The School tuition fees do not include CIPS membership fees.

Examinations

The Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) examinations are held in January, March, May, July and November each year. It is the course members’ responsibility to register for these examinations directly with CIPS.

CIPS programmes at Level 4, 5 and 6:

An applicant must normally have obtained 2 'A levels' or an equivalent qualification;

Delegates with previous experience (academic or professional) are advised to consult CIPS with regard to possible exemptions.

This degree-level course is designed for those already working in purchasing & supply industry.

Applicants without any prior qualifications must be at least 21 years of age with at least two years experience in a business environment.

To make an application

Please submit your completed application form together with your CV to Tamara Solomun, CIPS Programmes Director either by email: cips@greenwich-college.ac.uk or by post directly to Greenwich School of Management.

For more information please call +44 (0) 208 516 7800.

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