Professional training catalogue — procurement · supplier quality · supply chain
Craft first. AI inside.
Training for professionals, by practitioners. Procurement people who run workshops, simulations and debriefs — 1 to 3 days maximum. You don't learn AI theory: you work each craft theme, AI inside. Every course draws on the Yxalo assistants, put into practice on workshop cases.
No lectures: every sequence produces a real deliverable, then gets debriefed. Active learning from start to finish.
AI with a teaching purpose
Every course draws on the Yxalo assistants, put into practice on workshop cases. The rule taught from the opening: AI prepares, the buyer decides.
A continuation, not an ending
Systematic closing: every participant leaves with their reflexes and a personal action plan, ready to apply the moment they are back at their desk.
The assistant onboarding course is not in this catalogue: it belongs to the deployment programme.
Two formats, two price lists — published
Open sessions, or at your site.
Open sessions — per participant
from €890 excl. VAT / day / participant
Small cohorts of 6 to 10 buyers from different companies, in easy-to-reach seminar venues — Lyon, Paris, Lille, Nantes, Aix-les-Bains, Brussels, Luxembourg…
Training material and access to the Yxalo assistants for the duration of the session included
Coffee, breaks and lunch organised by us depending on the venue
Dates announced 6 months ahead — ask for the 2026/2027 calendar
In-house — tailored, at your site
from €2,400 excl. VAT / day / group (8-10 participants max)
The course adapted to your purchasing categories and your cases, on your premises, for your teams.
Your cases stay home: workshops are built on your real files, nothing shared with other companies
2 days: from €4,800 · 3 days: from €7,200 (per group) — precise quote with every proposal
Travel and accommodation billed separately by zone — flat fee stated in the quote
Away from your site? We organise the venue — billed separately, on quote
Direct invoicing; French OPCO funding available once our Qualiopi certification is granted (in progress).
All the basics of the craft, from need analysis to contract. For junior buyers, teams to harmonise and functions that buy without procurement training.
3 DAYS
Need analysis & specifications
Structure the need and write a functional specification that hunts over-specification. For those who express or frame purchasing needs.
Family B — Negotiate & contract
Where your savings are.
2 DAYS
Negotiation: the preparation that wins
Negotiation is won before the meeting: prepare the relationship, the objectives and your room to manoeuvre, then test it in simulations.
2 DAYS
Contracts: what's acceptable, what's not
Read a contract like a buyer: spot what's acceptable, what's negotiable and what won't pass — and know how to argue it.
1 DAY
Should-cost & price breakdown
Rebuild the fair price of a part or a service, and use it in negotiation.
2 DAYS
Buying intellectual services & IT
The categories where progress margins sleep. The course evaluates no market solution: it teaches the method.
Family C — Quality, risks & supply
Secure the panel and the flow.
3 DAYS
Supplier quality: 8D, FMEA & control plans
Handle supplier non-conformities and secure quality over time — run on lived industrial cases.
2 DAYS
Evaluating and auditing your suppliers
Evaluate your suppliers, for production and service providers alike, and get an initiation to process auditing along the logic of the major automotive frameworks.
2 DAYS
Supplier risk management
Map, score and mitigate supplier risk — for an audit-ready file that holds up against quality requirements.
3 DAYS
Economic intelligence for procurement
Understand the balance of power in your supplier markets, protect your company's information and move a situation of dependency forward.
2 DAYS
Supply chain & continuity of supply
Secure the flow of supply without overstocking: anticipate delays, manage supplier crises.
1 DAY
CSR & responsible procurement
Answer your customers' CSR questionnaires without inventing anything, and understand what regulation really changes for SMEs.
Family D — Steer & decide
Strategy, projects, performance.
2 DAYS
Procurement marketing & sourcing
Segment your portfolio, build category strategies and qualify your suppliers.
1 DAY
Make or buy, subcontracting
Make or buy? Outsource or reinternalise? Decide on total costs and risks (dependency, reversibility, duty of vigilance).
2 DAYS
Project & capex procurement
From need expression to steering the procurement milestones of an investment project.
1 DAY
Steering procurement performance
The KPIs that matter, credible and defensible savings, board reporting, the function's progress plan.
½ DAY · EXECUTIVES
Procurement AI for executives
€2,400 excl. VAT · at your site
What AI really changes in a procurement function, what it will not change, how to frame usage and confidentiality — to decide with full knowledge.
Format: in person, at your site — owner-to-buyer conversation.
Family E — Public sector
Public procurement, with your assistant.
2 DAYS · LOCAL AUTHORITIES · SOCIAL HOUSING
Public procurement with your assistant
Secure procedures, analyse bids on the announced criteria traceably, write faster — with the safeguards of public procurement and one absolute rule: AI prepares, the public buyer decides.
1 DAY · MODULE — COMBINABLE
The environmental criterion, in practice
Mandatory in every French public tender from 21 August 2026: build your criteria and weightings, and substantiate your awards. Combines with the public procurement course — or stands alone, before the deadline.
And then?
Training opens onto deployment.
Every trainee leaves with their reflexes and their action plan. To go further, training opens naturally onto the Yxalo deployment programme: audit, installation of the assistants, team upskilling.
Syllabus & dates
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