Procurement Skills Assessment Test
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Procurement Skills Assessment Test
In today's rapidly shifting business landscape, a high-performing procurement function is a strategic necessity. To ensure your team is equipped to deliver on your strategy, you need a clear, objective measure of their capabilities. Our comprehensive Skills Assessment tools are designed to evaluate procurement skills, behavioral competence, and knowledge across the entire supply chain and contract lifecycle, providing the insights you need to drive excellence. Assessments can be used stand-alone or in combination to provide a holistic view of your team's proficiency.
What is a Procurement Skills Assessment?
A Procurement Skills Assessment is a strategic tool used to segment and evaluate the capabilities of your team against industry best practices and your organization's strategic goals. By systematically testing knowledge, behaviors, and technical skills, we identify critical gaps and provide targeted development plans. Our comprehensive assessment suite is divided into three core areas:
1. Procurement Assessments
These assessments focus on the core strategic procurement process, evaluating the skills, behaviors, and knowledge required for effective sourcing and category management.
A) Procurement Skills Assessment Self-Assessment
What is it? This is a self-assessment of your Procurement skills. You will be guided through eight dimensions of Procurement as you assess yourself on a range of question items. It explores the Procurement Attributes, Business Attributes, and Personal Attributes that drive excellence in procurement. As such, skills are uniquely aligned to each distinct phase and the capabilities of procurement.
The 8 Dimensions are:
- Opportunity Analysis
- Market Analysis
- Strategy Development
- Market Engagement
- Negotiation
- Contract Implementation
- Supplier Relationship Management
- Strategy Refresh
What happens when I finish? On completion you will receive your individual report with an assessment of your capability across a range of technical competencies. It will highlight each dimension of procurement focussing on both your strengths and your development opportunities. The key output is a set of 70:20:10 recommendations that will help you consider your development priorities with suggestions for you to use in your workplace.
Reliability and Deployment: The context for the question set is based on an established phased approach to the strategic procurement process. The content of each question has been considered by procurement consultants and practitioners in Australia and United Kingdom to ensure relevance, reliability and validity of the Skills Assessment. The evaluation is designed to gain insights into team and individual skill sets. To this end there are varying levels of difficulty in the question set however, criteria are not designed to ‘trip up’ or trick you. There is no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ profile result but rather an an insight into the overall picture. Yes! This assessment is available online and requires no face-to-face interviews. It can easily be deployed across a geographically dispersed workforce. Each person will receive their own unique login credentials and on completion, their individualised reports. We will then aggregate the scores, visualise them for you and in your ‘Group Report’ provide you with the insights you require.
B) Procurement Behavioural Self Assessment
What is it? Against a shifting backdrop, it is crucial to identify the inherent BEHAVIOURS required to create, to drive change, to transform thinking, manage and to lead. This is a self-evaluation of your behavioural competencies. You will be guided through critical behavioural styles as you assess yourself on 72 behaviour descriptions. It explores the Personal Attributes, Interpersonal Attributes and Leadership Attributes that underpin performance in procurement. Behavioural assessment has been uniquely aligned to recognised distinct phase and capabilities of procurement.
Themes Explored in the Assessment: With the notion of a ‘high-performance procurement team’ at the epicentre, the assessment evaluates themes such as:
- Critical thinking
- Innovating and change
- Communicating
- Influencing outcomes
- Adapting and coping
- Deciding and leading
What happens when I finish? On completion you will receive your individual report with an assessment with your evaluation across the behavioural styles and descriptors. It will highlight each dimension of procurement focussing on both your strengths and your development opportunities through the lens of behaviorual competence. The key output is a set of 70:20:10 recommendations that will help you consider your development priorities with suggestions for you to use in your workplace.
C) Procurement Knowledge Evaluation
What is it? This evaluation centres on the skills required to perform the procurement function in strategic procurement. This is an evaluation of your Procurement knowledge. You will be guided through eight dimensions of Procurement and you will be asked a set of multiple choice questions for each. This is a timed assessment and at the allocated time the assessment will close.
The question set is based on technical skills standards and there are varying levels of difficulty in the question set however, they are not designed to ‘trip up’ or trick you but rather to provide an insight into your expertise across procurement.
What’s in it for me?
- Gain insight into your expertise in each step of the process.
- Benchmark your knowledge against the rest of the profession.
- Personalise your training plan with a move away from the ‘sheep dip’ approach.
- Receive an individualised report which you can use for your own personal development.
- A feeling of contribution! The more respondents, the greater the benchmark measure across the region.
Assessment Details:
- evaluation generally takes around 60 minutes to
- Confidentiality: On completion of the evaluation you will receive a PDF report of your own results. We do not share your personal results with anyone. At an aggregate level results are collected, amassed and averaged to provide a basis for a benchmark of capability.
2. Contract Management Assessments
Are you committed to maximising the value derived from the procurement process? You can assess contract management skills, evaluate knowledge and assess commercial awareness.
A) Contract Management Skills Assessment Self-Assessment
What is it? The Training Needs Analysis is an online questionnaire designed to explore the capability required to perform commercial contract management. Based on your responses to 72 questions, across the 8 categories of contract management, a profile of your capability will be built and recommendations for future development will be made.
The 8 Dimensions are:
- Planning and Governance
- Measuring Performance
- Building relationships
- Reviewing Performance
- Sponsor Improvement
- Administer Contract
- Managing Risk
- Commercial Risk
What happens when I finish? On completion you will receive an individual report with an assessment of your capability across the range of commercial contract management competencies. The report will highlight each phase of the process focusing on your strengths and your evolving skill-sets. The key output is a set of recommendations for you to consider. These recommendations are based on the 70-20-10 model of learning.
B) Procurement Contract Management Knowledge Evaluation
What is it? This evaluation centres on the knowledge required to perform across the Contract Management. This is an evaluation of your practical contract knowledge. You will be guided through eight dimensions of Contract Management and you will be asked nine multiple choice questions for each dimension. This is a timed assessment and at 60 minutes the assessment will close. The question set is based on technical skills standards and there are varying levels of difficulty in the question set however, they are not designed to ‘trip up’ or trick you but rather to provide an insight into your expertise across procurement.
What happens when I finish? On completion you will receive an individual report with an assessment of your capability across the dimensions of commercial contract management competencies. The report will highlight each dimension focusing on your strengths and your evolving skill-sets. The key output is a set of recommendations for you to consider in light of the case-study scenario evaluation completed.
C) Commercial Awareness Evaluation
What is it? The Commercial Awareness Evaluation is designed to diagnose commercial awareness to deliver ‘value’ beyond traditional economic measures of value, such as price savings. The pursuit of value for money in procurement is hampered by the lack of a clear framework to define what is value? We may well be able to define what it is not, for example accepting the lowest priced offer, but we are not always able to define how we may recognise it if we achieved it?
The 5 dimensions are:
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Outcome Focus
- Market Steward
- Risk Management
- Creating Public Value
What happens when I finish? On completion you will receive an individual report with an assessment of your capability across the dimensions of commercial awareness. The report will highlight each dimension focusing on your strengths and your evolving skill-sets. The key output is a set of recommendations for you to consider in light of the case-study scenario evaluation completed.
3. Supply Chain Assessments
We all know that the success of your business is inextricably linked to the performance of your supply chain. You can assess your supply chain skills, and evaluate your knowledge.
A) Supply Chain Skills Assessment Self-Assessment
What is it? The success of your business is inextricably linked to the performance of your supply chain. This assessment supports a self-evaluation of your Supply Chain skills. This assessment focuses on the skills required to perform in Supply Chain and for each of 10 dimensions explored, asks you to evaluate yourself on a range of capabilities. The aim of this is to provide a systematic self-analysis of your skill-set as it stands today.
The 10 dimensions assessed are:
- Inventory Control
- Supply Planning
- Demand Planning
- Transportation
- Order Management
- Warehousing
- Manufacturing
- Legal Contracting
- Financials
- Project Management
What happens when I finish? On completion you will receive an individual report with an assessment of your capability across the range of supply chain competencies. The report will highlight each dimension of Supply Chain, focusing on your strengths and your evolving skill sets.
The key output is a set of recommendations for you to consider. These recommendations are based on the 70-20-10 model of learning.
B) Supply Chain Knowledge Evaluation
What is it? Poor supply chain performance can contribute to poor organizational results. This evaluation centers on the knowledge required to perform across the Supply Chain. This is an evaluation of your Supply Chain knowledge. You will be guided through the ten dimensions of Supply Chain, and you will be asked a set of multiple-choice questions for each. This is a timed assessment and at the allocated time, the assessment will close.
What happens when I finish? On completion, you will receive an individual report with an assessment of your capability across a range of technical competencies. It will highlight each phase of the supply chain management process focusing on both your strengths and your evolving skill sets. The key output is a set of recommendations for both you and your manager to consider in order to optimize department and individual performance.
Why Choose Our Comprehensive Skills Assessment?
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You can have a tailored Skills Assessment designed to suit the specific needs of your organisation. We will even design your Capability Framework should you not yet have one!
