Training structure
IUT Montpellier-Sète
Presentation
The Purchasing and Supply Management Professional Degree (Licence professionnelle) is designed to place students who have acquired a Bachelor's degree (180 credits) in level II jobs in both the public and private sectors in purchasing and supply management. This Bachelor's degree gives students the opportunity to take competitive exams for civil service positions in categories C and B. It offers a sandwich course and is open to continuing education.
99%
Success rates
Objectives
Training as a buyer or buyer-supplier, primarily for public services (health, education, local authorities, military security), but also for the private sector.
Know-how and skills
- Analyze and define purchasing needs
- Develop a purchasing strategy
- Executing a contract
- Quality control
- Monitor procurement
- Initiate and manage new purchasing-related projects for the department
- Writing in English and French
- Master Excel.
Organization
Special features
Continuing education (partial VAE). High-level athletes.
Program
Traditional system:
Validation of the diploma earns 60 European credits (ECTS) and leads to a Bachelor's degree. The course comprises 430 hours of lectures, 120 hours of group project management and 16 weeks of internship.
The group project must respond to a purchasing issue raised by companies, or to a purchasing-related question submitted by the teaching team. The defense of the tutored project takes place at the end of semester 5.
The internship carried out by the student alone must be a preparation for the purchasing or procurement profession. 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
UE 52 : Relationship tools
- Purchasing marketing
- Purchasing negotiation techniques (seminar)
- Interpersonal relationship management
- IT
- English
UE 53 : Preparing for civil service entrance examinations
- The civil service
- Competition preparation
UE 54 : Tutored project
SEMESTER 6
EU 61 : Advanced professional training
- Purchasing operationalization
- A financial approach to purchasing
- English
- IT and purchasing
- Public procurement law
- Project management
EU 62 : Fundamentals of negotiation and procurement
- Buyer-supplier relationship management
- Sourcing / partner search
- Public procurement, subcontracting, competition
- Procurement and purchasing logistics
- Purchasing optimization and quality
UEE 64: Work placement
REMEMBER: Very few places are available.
Work-study programs : apprenticeship and professionalization contracts
Work-study or professionalization contracts can be signed with private or public companies.
Students can propose work-study or professionalization contracts to the training organization. The training organization can offer them to students. A contract in the application file is a plus for recruitment.
The course comprises 430 hours of teaching, 120 hours of projects and 15 weeks of classes at the IUT for 30 weeks in the company, 16 of which are allocated to a professional assignment (independent purchasing).
For both programs: The diploma includes a one-week awareness-raising course on competitive examinations for the civil service (local authorities, hospitals, universities, etc.).
Teaching is provided by university and professional lecturers.
Select a program
Purchasing management in the public sector
The GASP professional degree offered by IUT Montpellier-Sète enables students to follow a course entitled"Gestion des Achats dans le Secteur Public" ("Public Sector Purchasing Management").
The Licence professionnelle (vocational degree) is designed to place students who have acquired the Licence qualification (180 credits) in level II jobs in both the public and private sectors in purchasing and procurement. This Bachelor's degree gives students the opportunity to take competitive exams for civil service positions in categories C and B. It offers a sandwich course and is open to continuing education.
Admission
Target audience
Bac+2 = (BTS, DUT, L2) of any training with a desire to progress in purchasing // Continuing education.
Mandatory prerequisites
Bac+2 = (BTS, DUT, L2) of any training with a desire to move into purchasing
Recommended prerequisites
None, except for an attraction to the sales function.
And then
Further studies
The aim of the professional license is to ensure rapid integration into working life, rather than further study.
Studying abroad
The aim of the professional license is to ensure rapid integration into working life, rather than further study.
Bridges and reorientation
Bridges and reorientation options
Professional integration
- 80% within 30 months of graduation.