Professional training catalogue — procurement · supplier quality · supply chain

Craft first. AI inside.

Buyer training by procurement practitioners — 1 to 3 days maximum, in workshops, simulations and debriefs. You don't learn AI theory: you work every topic of the craft with your assistant — the one you keep using daily after the course.

Request a detailed programme In-house across France, French-speaking Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg — EN or FR.
The teaching signature

You produce, we facilitate.

Workshops, simulations, debriefs

No lectures: every sequence produces a real deliverable — bid analysis, negotiation brief, 8D review grid, clause doctrine — then gets debriefed. The final workshop always runs on your own files.

AI with a teaching purpose

The assistant speeds up production AND trainees learn to drive it: frame, verify, challenge. The rule taught from the start: AI prepares, the buyer decides.

A continuation, not an ending

Every course closes with a personal 60-day action plan and 7 days of free access to the assistant platform — on your real files.

Two formats, two pricing models — published

Open sessions, or at your site.

Open inter-company — per participant

from €890 / day / participant (excl. VAT)

Small cohorts of 6 to 10 buyers from different companies, in easily accessible seminar venues — Lyon, Paris, Lille, Nantes, Geneva, Brussels, Luxembourg…

  • Hotel service included: welcome coffee, morning and afternoon breaks, lunch
  • Workshop workbook, assistant access and the 7-day trial included
  • First dates announced soon — ask for the calendar

In-house — tailored, at your site

€2,400 / day / group (8-10 participants max, excl. VAT)

The course adapted to your categories and cases, on your premises, for your teams.

  • 2 days: €4,400 · 3 days: €6,200 (per group)
  • The final workshop runs on YOUR real files
  • Away from your site? We arrange the venue — billed separately, on quote

Agreements carried by a registered training organisation (France); FNE funding eligibility case by case.

Family A — The craft with your assistant

Working with AI, concretely.

1 DAY · THE ENTRY POINT

Working with your procurement assistant

Drive AI assistants across the craft: RFQ analysis in total landed cost, negotiation preparation, 8D reviews — plus the confidentiality framework to do it properly.

AI inside: all six assistants, each on its gesture, then your own files.

2 DAYS

Choosing and buying IT, SaaS or AI solutions

From need to contract: criteria grid, 3-year TCO, day-rate breakdown, simulated vendor pitch, negotiating the hard points (exit, SLAs, liability), contract checklist.

AI inside: assisted bid analysis and TCO, checklist run with the Contracts assistant.

Family B — Foundations

The core of the craft.

3 DAYS

The Buyer's Profession

The end-to-end procurement process for junior buyers and functions that buy without training — with a toolkit booklet handed out at the end.

AI inside: every gesture learned by hand, then assisted.

2 DAYS

Need analysis & specifications

Functional analysis, functional specifications, value analysis — hunting over-specification.

AI inside: assisted specification writing, the "right need" challenged.

1 DAY

A successful start in procurement

The first 90 days: rapid mapping, quick wins, relationships with internal clients and suppliers.

AI inside: the new buyer tooled up from day one.

Family C — Expertise

Where the euros are won.

2 DAYS

Procurement negotiation

Methodical preparation (position, levers, target/fallback/walk-away) then buyer-seller role plays across varied cases.

AI inside: every session is prepared with the assistant — and played without. The debrief compares.

2 DAYS

Contracts: what's acceptable, what's not

The 12-family clause doctrine (target, fallback, hard line), critical reading, clause rewriting, negotiation scripts — everyone leaves with their company's own doctrine.

AI inside: green/amber/red review by hand then with the assistant — the gap teaches.

2 DAYS

Supplier quality & 8D

Contractual quality requirements, the D1-D8 grid, recurrences, closure on proof of effectiveness — run on lived industrial cases.

AI inside: assisted 8D reviews, requirement letters generated then hardened.

2 DAYS

Procurement marketing & sourcing

Portfolio segmentation, category strategies, supplier qualification as a role play.

AI inside: segmentation and scorecards computed with the panel assistant.

1 DAY

Make or buy, subcontracting

Decision grid, compared total costs, risks: dependency, exit, due diligence duties.

AI inside: scenario TCO with the assistant.

1 DAY

Procurement audit & maturity

Self-assessment across 7 dimensions, gap reading, prioritised improvement plan — your function's radar chart.

AI inside: the action plan generated, then challenged in the workshop.

1 DAY

Indirect & non-production purchasing

Good practice by category, consolidation, taking back maverick buying.

AI inside: assisted spend analysis on the trainee's data.

2 DAYS

Project & capex procurement

From need expression to steering the procurement milestones of an investment project.

AI inside: the assistant supporting every milestone.

Family D — Public sector

Public procurement, with your assistant.

2 DAYS · LOCAL AUTHORITIES · HOSPITALS · HOUSING BODIES

Public procurement with your assistant

Securing procedures (threshold computation, split-purchasing detection), traceable bid analysis on the announced criteria, faster drafting — analysis reports, motivated rejection letters.

AI inside: a sovereign assistant (European infrastructure) and one absolute rule — AI prepares, the buyer decides.

Departments, regions, inter-municipal bodies, hospitals, social housing: programmes adapt to your procedures and buyer profile. Let's talk.

And then?

The course ends. The assistant stays.

Every trainee leaves with 7 days of access to their assistant, on their real files. Then: a 30-day pilot on a quantified use case, then a subscription — the assistant becomes the team's daily tool. See the assistant offers →

Programme & dates

Request the detailed programme.

Every course exists in a detailed version: objectives, workshop-by-workshop agenda, prerequisites, assessment. Tell us which one and for which team — we reply within one business day.