Skills For Work Training - Building Professional Relationships
Supplier Relationship Management
This course offers a comprehensive introduction to Supplier Relationship Management, highlighting its strategic importance early in an employee’s career.
Participants will learn how effective supplier interactions impact organisational reputation and commercial outcomes. Covering the full relationship cycle, the course provides practical tools for managing supplier partnerships, addressing potential conflicts, and achieving mutual benefit.
Emphasis is placed on developing key communication and interpersonal skills essential for building strong, professional relationships which support long-term organisational success.
- Mode: Live Online, On-Demand, Corporate Booking
- Cost: $550.00
- Duration: Full Day, 9:30am – 3:30pm
- Non-Accredited Training — suitable for continuing professional development
(Certificate with CPD Points).
Why Choose Us
Outcomes From Completing This Course
You will learn how to:
- Describe and plan for all of the stages of the supplier relationship cycle.
- Recognise and avoid potential pitfalls with supplier relationships.
- Leverage successful supplier relationships for mutual advantage.
- Explain how interactions with suppliers may have wider-ranging impacts for your organisation’s interests.
- Promote a positive image for your organisation in all your dealings.
- Help your organisation to achieve ‘preferred client’ status within your market.
Enlightened
Recognise the value of investing in strong supplier relationships - for all stages of the market cycle.
Empowered
Maximise value for your wider organisation, and its longer term capability.
Skilled
Improve your supplier selection, development & retention.
Ensure efficient contract management.
Confident
Practise supplier consultation in a supportive environment.
Return to work, ready to implement your new skills.

Course Highlights
How Our Course Is Different
Excel in Supplier Relationship Management!
Enhance your procurement skills with our Supplier Relationship Management course. Learn to build and maintain strong supplier partnerships that drive business success. Stand out by mastering strategies that optimise supplier performance and collaboration in today’s competitive market.
- Strategic Partnerships: Learn techniques to develop and sustain mutually beneficial supplier relationships.
- Experienced Facilitator: Benefit from insights and guidance from our highly experienced instructor.
- Employer Endorsement: Gain skills that are recognized and valued by employers.
- Engaging Format: Participate in interactive workshops and receive personalized feedback.
- Accessible Content: We make complex concepts easily understandable and relatable, ensuring you can apply them effectively.
- Certification: Earn a recognized certification upon completion, showcasing your expertise.

FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything that you wanted to know, and were waiting to ask!
This short course is ideal for a wide range of professionals in the private, public, not-for-profit and NGO sectors, who are seeking to develop capability in this core skillset.
This short course has been developed by TechKnowledgey in consultation with industry and government partners and with reference to best practice skills development to ensure it responds to the real-world needs of your sector. Our facilitators are not only experienced professionals but are also current practitioners who are equipped to explain the contemporary issues and workplace requirements.
The course is available Live Online, On-Demand, and for Corporate Bookings – offering flexibility to suit different learning preferences, and group requirements.
Live Online is delivered by our facilitator in real-time, and offers the chance to ask questions.
On Demand gives you 1-month of access to pre-recorded training, covering exactly the same topics, over the same time-frame. You don’t have a chance to ask questions, but you can replay and review the presentation.
Both:
- Cover the same content and skills development.
- Take the same time to complete, and provide the same volume of learning.
- Come at the same cost.
- A full day is equivalent to 6 hours
- High speed and uninterrupted internet access is required to access the Live Online and On Demand courses.
- Latest version browser; we recommend Chrome.
- Live Online preference is that the electronic device you are using has video to promote a more interactive and personal learning environment.
Yes, participants will receive reference materials and resources to support their learning during and after the course. Live Online and On Demand students will receive materials digitally. For Corporate bookings printed materials are provided.
- Yes! You will receive a digital credential which recognises your time and learning effort. TechKnowledgey uses the Credly platform to issue our certificates.
- A digital credential or badge is a representation of the learning outcomes, experience or competencies students have attained.
- Our digital certificates can be securely verified, and our students can share them online via social networks like LinkedIn.