CIPS Level 3 Advanced Certificate in Procurement and Supply is one of a series of progressive purchasing and supply chain management qualifications. It is aimed at procurement professionals who are new to procurement or have been working in the industry and would like to obtain a qualification. This program, designed by the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS), provides a thorough understanding of best practices, helps develop new skills, and familiarises the learner with procurement terminology. The goal of this qualification is to help individuals improve their efficiency and effectiveness in procurement and supply chain management.

• Understand and apply demand management through manual or IT based systems
• Carry out stock valuation and ordering
  
• Arrange supply logistics and the necessary paperwork
• Implement new contracts
  
• Query performance
  
• Financial management
  
• Contract review

The APM Project Management Qualification is aimed at those wishing to achieve a broad level of project management knowledge enough to participate in projects from individual assignments to large capital projects. It is designed to improve the skills of the project management staff to enable them, through good project management practice, to make sound business decisions and thereby helping all projects to succeed.

What do Business Analysts do? What skills and competencies do they require to do their role? This 3-day Foundation level course provides delegates with a 'whistle-stop tour' of the role of the Business Analyst who acts as the link between business needs, users and IT within change initiatives. This 3 day course is fast-paced and through the use of examples and a simple case study introduces delegates to the contribution that a business analyst makes within a business. We also consider the tools and techniques available to Business Analysts to assist them in their role. This is an exam-based course, the exam is delivered via remote proctor. The exam is delivered as a closed book multiple-choice examination to obtain the BCS Business Analysis Foundation Certificate. This qualification provides a foundation to the BCS International Diploma in Business Analysis and covers the knowledge-based element of the qualification.

Today’s businesses face a turbulent environment in which constant economic, regulatory and technological disruption has become the norm. Businesses need flexible, adaptable architectures which can accommodate change but also continue to deliver satisfactorily in ‘Business as Usual’ (BaU).

Overall aim of the course is to help participants become more commercially aware. To give them the knowledge, skills and confidence to think and act commercially.

By the end of this course delegates will be able to confidently: create and customise a report in Power BI, drilldown into the data in a model, build drill-through reports and relative date reports, create stunning data visualisations including maps, bullet and scatter charts, refresh data manually and also at pre-set intervals and set security and data permissions.

By the end of this course delegates will be able to confidently connect to data from Power BI from a variety of sources, manipulate and transform your data, create a wide variety of different data visualisations and create reports which you can publish via the web or PDFs.