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Workshops

Practical procurement training for start-ups and SMEs.

Ninety minute online sessions, built around your business rather than a made-up case study.

Priced per session, at a fraction of what the big training firms charge.

Who these are for

Teams new to buying, teams who have grown into it, and experienced people who want depth in a particular area.

We also build structured training programmes — for apprenticeships, graduate schemes and internal development pathways — where procurement needs teaching properly rather than picked up along the way.

The sessions

The six we are asked for most often.

These are the most common requests, not the full list. None are delivered off the shelf — we agree your real examples and documents first, and we build sessions that are not shown here whenever they are needed.

01

Buying well, from scratch

Capable people commit serious money to suppliers with no training in how. You leave with a buying checklist and a supplier comparison approach the team can reuse.

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02

Getting better prices and better terms

Costs have crept up, and negotiating feels uncomfortable when you are the smaller party. You leave with a shortlist of your own suppliers worth revisiting.

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03

Setting up procurement in a growing business

Buying is spread across the business and nobody is sure who can commit what. You leave with a draft set of thresholds and approvals, agreed in the room.

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04

AI, tooling and how procurement should run

Which platforms and AI tools fit a business your size, and how the procurement operating model should work around them. You leave with tested prompts and a one-page set of rules.

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05

Supplier due diligence and compliance

Obligations arrive from every direction and nobody's job is to catch them. You leave with a checklist sized to your business, and a register you can maintain.

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06

Packaging obligations, explained

You have been told you are obligated, and the whole area arrives as jargon. Introductory and general — not a compliance assessment or regulatory advice.

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How it works

Four steps, nothing complicated.

Plenty of what we run is not on this page. We also build training programmes for apprenticeships, graduate schemes and internal development pathways. Describe what you need and we will build it.

01

Tell us what you need

A reply within one working day, usually with an outline and indicative price.

02

We shape the session

Around your spend areas, your documents and your real examples.

03

Ninety minutes, live

Online, delivered by the person who designed it.

04

You keep the materials

Slides, checklists and templates, yours to reuse.

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Tell us what your team needs.

If none is quite right, say so. Most sessions get adapted anyway.

Which sessions are of interest? Choose as many as apply.