Turn Supplier Relationships into a Competitive Advantage
Explore practical ways to strengthen procurement strategies and create measurable impact
Elevate Your Skills with SRM Training Excellence
Why invest in training?
Maximise value
Learn strategies to deliver maximum value from your supplier partnerships.
Use best practices
Translate research findings into actionable strategies and stay updated with the latest best practices in SRM.
Mitigate risk
Gain insights to mitigate risks and challenges in supplier relationships.
Public courses for individuals
Open enrolment
Available to individuals and smaller groups from various organisations.
Generalised content
Content covers principles and practices suitable for a broad audience interested in supplier management.
Networking Opportunities
Participants network with different organisations.
Cost-effective
Lower costs per person as expenses are shared between participants.
In-house courses for teams
Tailored content
Customised to address specific challenges within your organisation.
In-depth focus
Dive into the latest best practices and emerging trends.
Team alignment
Designed to align the entire team within your organisation.
Implementation support
Specialised courses provide tools, case studies, and guidance to effectively implement strategies.
Unlocking performance through people
Training with State of Flux
Benefits to your business
Attracting and retaining talent
The greatest asset of any business is its people. Employees see development opportunities as an important benefit.
People deliver returns
Having the right people with the right skills is central to delivering your business strategy.
Build efficiency
The right people with the right skill approach ensure that a business can do what it does more efficiently.
Research-based best practice
The content and structure of our programmes are shaped by the findings of our global annual research into supplier management best practices and thousands of real-world consulting engagements.
Collaborative working
We don’t just deliver courses, we back them up with coaching support to ensure everything we teach is embedded – this is how we ensure the return on investment is delivered.
Bring your own case studies
We encourage course attendees to use their live supplier relationships as their personal case studies and apply everything we teach to those supplier relationships.
Explore our Training Courses in Practice
Training course catalogue
Interested in any training courses for your organisation? Contact us here.
SRM Advanced
Develop and create new value through your most important supplier relationships.
Format: 8-9 online modules over 4-8, 90-150 min sessions (Vary per region)
Capability Assessment
Understand your team's strengths and development opportunities to deliver business value.
Format: 6 online modules over 6, 90-min sessions.
Supply Chain Risk
Protect value with a practical and structured approach to proactively manage risk.
Format: 4 online modules over 6, 60-min sessions.
Category Management
Address technical and behavioural skills in the context of your job and enable individuals to be trusted commercial advisors.
Format: 8 online modules over 4-8, 90-150 min sessions (Vary per region)
Rebate Management
Master diverse rebate types and navigate the rebate lifecycle from offer creation to payment.
Format: 3 online modules over 3, 90-min sessions.
Procurement Behaviour
Learn the behavioural skills that "make" a supplier relationship, or "break it".
Format: 8 online modules over 6, 90-min sessions.
Negotiation
Examine the skills of negotiation you need to build better long-term value for your business.
Format: 4 online modules over 4, 90-min sessions.
Diversity & Inclusion
Understand why supplier diversity can help unlock innovation and agility, and improve ESG credentials.
Format: 6 online modules over 6, 90-min sessions.
Account Management
Understand how to sell to procurement teams; how they buy and how they manage suppliers.
Format: 4 online modules over 3, 90 min sessions
Strategic Sourcing
Develop and apply the skills to source strategically and deliver a value-creating supplier to the business.
Format: 7 online modules over 7, 90-min sessions
Meet your State of Flux trainers
APAC
Dr Frank Lai
Head of APAC
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Frank is a management consultant specialising in supplier management , sustainable procurement, risk management, cost optimisation and data analytics. He has extensive experience of working overseas in supplier management, contract negotiation and procurement, and specialises in supply chains and procurement across a number of industries. He has an excellent track record of delivering positive strategic outcomes. He holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and lectures in the Faculty of Business and Economics and the Melbourne School of Engineering. Frank has received a number of scholarships and awards over the years.
North America
Christine Scoolis
Manager Consultant
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Christine has worked for the last 20 years as a consultant and procurement leader, making corporate & supplier interactions and procurement operations diverse, efficient, and transparent by finding the gaps and filling them in with knowledge and team-building strategies. Chris has facilitated many successful relationship and innovation workshops, helping our clients pinpoint and dissolve issues to build resilient supplier partnerships that can realize new value.
EMEA
Nicola Dunne
Executive Consultant
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Nicola has 34 years of experience in commercial, transformational and senior executive roles in both the private and public sectors. Her initial responsibility for supply chain re-engineering on a global scale laid the foundation for further developing her skills in mail logistics. With an accompanying MBA and MSc in Behavioural Change, Leadership and People Development, these themes played a major part in her first CPO role. More recent projects have seen her focus on organisational design, business mentoring and training.
Joel Saunders
Commercial Director
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Joel is an experienced Executive Consultant with a history of developing successful Supplier Management programmes encompassing risk, contract, performance and supplier relationship management, including training, consulting, technology and research.
Ben Earnshaw
Head of EMEA
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Ben is the Head of EMEA and has ten years experience in consulting (State of Flux & PwC/Deloitte/Vendigital) across a range of clients & industries. He combines in-depth Supplier Management, Procurement and Supply Chain knowledge (with an MSc in Logistics & Supply Chain Management from Cranfield University) with strong project management, relationship building & analytical skills.
Simon King
Manager Consultant
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Simon is a CIPD-qualified learning and development professional with a record of designing and delivering value-adding learning solutions in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. He is well-practised in consulting and coaching on learning programmes designed to enhance supplier performance and relationship management. As an experienced manager with expertise in competency frameworks, psychometrics and coaching, Simon aims to help professionals maximise potential in their business relationships.