Executive Training Courses

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The course will provide a framework and guidance on tools to use for end-to-end strategic sourcing and procurement to achieve real estate service delivery excellence at best value cost.       

COURSE PROGRAMME (9.00 am – 6.00 pm)

• Strategic Sourcing & Procurement: Rationale & Process
  • Strategic Sourcing & Procurement vs Transactional Purchasing
  • Rationale, Drivers, Outcomes & Benefits 
  • The Process: Supplier Selection, Appointment & Management   
    1. Collect Data & Analyse Spend (Demand Characteristics & User Requirements)
    2. Analyse Market (Market Supply Characteristics & Capability)
    3. RFX (Go-to-Market): Request for Information / Proposal / Quotation / Bid
    4. Review Quote/Bid & Contract
    5. Performance Monitoring & Continuous Process Improvement 
•  The Tools: Performance-Based Specifications
  • Prescriptive vs. Performance-Based Specifications
  • When to Use Performance Specifications 
  • Developing Performance-Based Specifications
•  The Tools: Balanced ScoreCard (BSC)
  • BSC Basics
  • BSC in Strategic Sourcing & Procurement
  • BSC Framework to Evaluate Service Provider
•  The Tools: Service Level Agreement (SLA)
  • SLA Basics
  • SLA in Strategic Sourcing & Procurement
  • Developing SLA for Real Estate Services
• Risk Management
  • Internal & External Risks
  • Risk Management Process
  • Role of Procurement Professional

COURSE LEADER

Dr Quah Lee Kiang FRICS

Dr Quah is the Director of the Real Estate & Construction Centre and the Real Estate & Construction Academy in Singapore. She has extensive regional and international experience in Project and Facilities Management & Maintenance research, advice and academia.

Dr Quah led the EU funded project BE4213 Condition Assessment and Maintenance Strategies for Buildings and Building Components, which among other things, sought to develop an objective building condition assessment system. This project formed part of ongoing research over the last 20 years which culminated in Dutch Standard NEN 2767 on Condition Assessment of Buildings, believed to be a ‘world first’.

Dr Quah’s professional and research affiliations include being Coordinator of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) Working Commission 70 on Facilities Management and Maintenance for a decade and past President of the Chartered Institute of Building Singapore Centre.  She was also a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Asia Board, Singapore Board and Asia Pacific Sustainability Board.

Dr Quah was conferred an Honorary Fellow by Oxford Brookes University for her work in real estate and construction education and the unusual impact her career has had on this particular academic field in Asia.

COURSE DATE AND VENUE

TBC

Devan Nair Institute for Employment & Employability
80 Jurong East St 21, Singapore 609607

COURSE FEES

$615 nett per person. Course fees includes full colour course documentation and refreshments at tea breaks. 

RECC is pleased to inform that course fee funding of $112.50 per person is available from e2i, subject to terms and conditions being met. Please enquire for further details.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The course will benefit those who have a vested interest in buildings including:

• Developers
• Building Owners
• Government Officials
• Architects
• Engineers
• Project Managers
• Quantity Surveyors
• Contractors/Sub-Contractors/Suppliers
• Property Managers
• Facilities Managers
• Maintenance Managers
• Management Corporations
• Town Councils
• and Others

COURSE ENQUIRIES AND REGISTRATIONS

Mr Ken Chew
Tel: 6563 4166
Fax: 6563 4156 
E-mail: exectrg@recc.com.sg

PLEASE NOTE

It may be necessary for reasons beyond RECC’s control, to change the content and timing of the programme and the identity of the course leader/s.