Business Skills - Effective Vendor Management
Your relationship with your vendors can often make or break a project baseline. In this short course, you will learn best practices for managing the vendor relationship from initiation to close, including documenting requirements, negotiating contract terms, and evaluating proposals. You'll learn how and why to establish clearly defined roles and responsibilities between you and your vendors.
Duration: 10-15hrs
Course Content:
1. Establishing the vendor relationship
2. Creating the vendor management plan
3. Documenting the vendor communication plan
4. Managing vendors throughout the project life cycle
5. Dealing with vendor issues
6. Vendor contract closeout