Training
Pinwheel is committed to helping advance the supply chain function in Canada and abroad and offers a variety of hard and soft skill trainings varying in duration from half a day to 2 days.
Strategic Sourcing
Fact-based Strategic Sourcing
Type: Interactive (plenary & workshops)
Trains manager and director level associates on the ins and outs of rigorous, sustainable strategic sourcing including internal and supply market fact-base building, sourcing strategy development, sourcing lever execution, bid/proposal analysis and supplier performance monitoring.
Fact-based Strategic Sourcing
5 - 15 Candidates
2 Days
Advanced Sourcing Analytics
Type: Interactive (plenary & workshops)
Trains manager and director level associates on how to appropriately leverage advanced analytics such as statistical regression and inconsistency analytics, optimization and complexity/cluster analytics in strategic sourcing processes.
Advanced Sourcing Analytics
5 - 10 Candidates
1 Day
Complexity Management
Executive Presence
Mastering Executive Presence
Type: Workshop
Trains high potentials in line for Executive or Partner jobs on emotional awareness, emotion management and social awareness & management skills in a series of breakouts mocking difficult discussions, public speaking and pressured discussions. The candidates interact with professional actors and receive video footage of their performances.
Mastering Executive Presence
5 - 10 Candidates
1 Day
All trainings are followed up by 2 or 5 checkpoint sessions to review, evaluate and help embed / adopt the changes learned during the training in day-to-day life.
Orchestrated Negotiations
Type: Interactive (plenary & workshops)
Trains manager and director level associates on basic and advanced negotiation tactics including supplier fact-base building, LAA-MDO analysis, game planning, mock negotiation and orchestrated negotiation governance.
Orchestrated Negotiations
5 - 15 Candidates
1 Day
Fact-based Complexity Management
Type: Interactive (plenary & workshops)
Trains manager and director level associates on basic and advanced SKU complexity database creation, complexity analytics such as variant tree and cluster analytics, complexity quantification and ongoing complexity prevention. Also available as a half-day executive, cross-functional workshop to help leaders map critical business constraints at a high level, understand competitor best practices and develop a strategy to release non-value add constraints to achieve optimal profitability (old embedded policies, non-profit generating product lines, over-‘buffered’ specifications, etc.)
Fact-based Complexity Management
5 - 15 Candidates
1 Day
Complex Project Governance
Type: Interactive (plenary & workshops)
Trains manager and director level associates on next generation project governance including milestone and activity level planning, expectations management, recommended communications, tangible change management actions and possible program governance structures.
Complex Project Governance
5 - 15 Candidates
1 Day