Michel Philippart is a senior trainer in the field of Purchasing and Supplier Management. His 25 years of experience can help your teams increase their performance. He can lead training sessions in French and English. With EDHEC Custom Programs, he can deliver certified trainings that benefit from the resources and the autority of a leading learning institution.
Teaching: Main topics
- Strategic Supplier Management : The Supplier as a Resource
- Purchasing Leadership
- Measure of Suppliers and Supplier Management Performance
- The Category Management Process: Tools and Techniques of Purchasing Professionals
- Building Collaborative Relations with Innovation Suppliers
- Charte des Bonnes Pratiques entre Donneurs d’Ordre et PME
- Supplier Risk Management
- Management of Operations and Supply Chain
- Purchasing and Supply Chain in Luxury, Fashion and Design
- International Supplier Management
- TCO and other analytic tools (Learning curves, linear performance pricing, cost lever analysis, etc.) for high performance purchasing teams
- Transformational Technologies in Supply Chain: Blockchain, Machine Learning, etc.
Teaching: Methodology
- Use hands on enterprise and consulting experience linked to academic topics and publications in peer reviewed journals
- Development of exercises, cases, and role plays to facilitate the understanding of the concepts presented, with the introduction of andragogy concepts as appropriate. This allows blending the teaching of hard skills with soft skills to achieve the identified objectives.
- Leverage of learning tools such as Moodle, and references to recent events with tools such as the Financial Times annotation and “Newslines”.
- Use of electronic assessment via Multiple Choice Questionnaires to validate teaching
Corporate and executive training
- Pedagogic Coordinator, 2 year program, in a large hospital center, coordinating 23 different modules
- Pedagogic Coordinator, Course developer, coordinator, and trainer, global training program for a tire manufacturer (Category and Purchasing Management, Contract Management, thematic topics)
- Course developer and trainer
- Asian purchasing team, European aerospace company, in Suzhou.
- French and English purchasing team, European defense company
- Gabon based team of a mining company
- European purchasing teams in Food services, Finance, Luxury, etc.
- Worldwide program for a global leader in tires
- Assessment of supplier management capabilities of buyers for global corporations in Food, Luxury, Finances, and Services.
- Certified trainer on "Charte des Relations Inter-entreprises".