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PROFESSIONAL DEGREE IN PURCHASING AND SUPPLY MANAGEMENT

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    IUT Montpellier-Sète

Presentation

The professional license Purchasing and supply management course Purchasing management in the public sector is intended to insert students who have acquired the degree of License (180 credits) on level II jobs in the public sector as well as private on jobs of purchasing and supply. This Bachelor's degree offers the possibility of taking public service exams for category C and B positions. It offers a work-study program and is open to continuing education. 

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Objectives

To train to the profession of buyer or buyer-supplier in priority for the public services of the state (Health, Education, Territorial, Security-Armed Forces), but also for the private sector. 

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Know-how and skills

  • Analyze and define a purchasing need
  • Develop a purchasing strategy
  • Execute a contract
  • Ensure the quality follow-up
  • Ensure the follow-up of the supply
  • Initiate and manage new purchasing related projects for the department
  • Writing in English and French
  • Master excel.
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Organization

Special arrangements

Continuing education (partial VAE). High level sportsmen and women. 

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Program

Traditional system:
The validation of the diploma allows to obtain 60 European credits (ECTS) and to obtain the degree of Licence. The training includes 430 hours of classes, 120 hours of group project management, and 16 weeks of internship.
The group project must respond to a purchasing problem posed by companies, or answer a question related to purchasing, submitted by the teaching team. The defense of the tutored project takes place at the end of semester 5.
The internship carried out alone by the student must be a preparation for the job of buyer or procurer. Possibility of validation of prior learning.

SEMESTER 5

EU 51 : Purchasing Environment

- Purchasing ethics and deontology

- Legislation and organization of a public administration

- Public procurement law

- Strategic marketing

- The specificities of public accounting

EU 52 : Relationship tools

- Procurement Marketing

- Negotiation and purchasing techniques (seminar)

- Interpersonal relationship management

- Information Technology

- Englishman

UE 53 : Preparation for public service exams

- The public service

- Competition preparation

UE 54 : Tutored project

SEMESTER 6

UE 61 : Professional deepening

- Operationalization of the purchase

- Financial approach of the purchasing process

- Englishman

- IT and purchasing

- Law of public procurement procedures

- Project management

EU 62: Fundamentals of Negotiation and Procurement

- Buyer-supplier relationship management

- Sourcing / partner search

- Public procurement, subcontracting, competition

- Procurement and purchasing logistics

- Optimization and quality of purchases

UEE 64 : Internship in a company

 

TO REMEMBER: Very few places are offered.

Work-study program : apprenticeship contract and professionalization contract
Work-study or professionalization contracts can be signed with private or public companies.
Students can propose them to the training structure. The training structure can propose one to the students. A contract in the application file is a plus for recruitment.
The training includes 430 hours of teaching, 120 hours of projects and 15 weeks of classes at the IUT for 30 weeks in a company, 16 of which are allocated to a professional mission (purchases made independently).
For both schemes: The diploma includes a week of awareness-raising for public servicecompetitions (local authorities, hospitals, universities, etc.).
The courses are taught by university lecturers and professionals.

 

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Public Sector Procurement Management

The GASP professional license given at the IUT Montpellier-Sète allows the student to follow a course called"Management of Purchases in the Public Sector".

The professional license is intended to insert students who have acquired the degree of License (180 credits) on level II jobs in the public sector as well as private on the trades of purchasing and supply. This Bachelor's degree offers the possibility of taking public service exams for category C and B positions. It offers a work-study program and is open to continuing education. 

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Admission

Target audience

Bac+2 = (BTS, DUT, L2) of all formations with a desire to evolve in the purchases // Continuing education. 

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Necessary pre-requisites

Bac+2 = (BTS, DUT, L2) of all formations with a desire to evolve in the purchases

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Recommended prerequisites

None, except for an attraction for the commercial function. 

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And then

Further studies

The objective of the professional license is a rapid integration into working life and not the continuation of studies.

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Continuing your studies abroad

The objective of the professional license is a rapid integration into working life and not the continuation of studies.

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Bridges and reorientation

Possible bridges and reorientation

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Professional integration

- 80% within 30 months of graduation. 

Results of the insertion survey

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