Skills and Education Group Awards · RQF Level 3
SEG Awards ABC Level 3 Certificate In Procurement and Supply
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits21
- Guided learning95 hours
- Units in this qualification13
Awarded by Skills and Education Group Awards · on the Ofqual register
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Skills and Education Group Awards registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Administer ContractsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the contract administration process.
- Administer a contract.
- Organise contract review meetings.
- Monitor outcomes of contract review meetings.
Administer a Stock Control SystemReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of effective stock control in procurement and supply.
- Re-order stock items.
- Expedite stock orders.
- Monitor and update stockholding inventory.
- Resolve problems when administering a stock re-ordering system.
Analyse Information about Procurement and SupplyReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to access information about procurement and supply.
- Gather information about procurement and supply.
- Undertake analysis of information about procurement and supply.
- Present results of analysis of information about procurement and supply to stakeholders.
Customer Service in Own Area of ResponsibilityReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of customer service.
- Understand how organisations ensure effective customer service.
- Understand effective customer service in own area of responsibility.
- Provide customer service.
- Monitor and improve customer service.
Determine Requirements for Procurement and SupplyReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how procurement requirements are determined and their importance.
- Prepare procurement and supply requirements.
- Present procurement and supply requirements.
Identify and Appraise Potential Suppliers of Non-Critical SuppliesReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Know the difference between critical and non-critical supplies.
- Identify potential sources of non-critical supplies.
- Understand the purpose and process of supplier appraisal for non-critical items in procurement and supply.
- Gather and analyse supplier appraisal information.
- Present outcomes of supplier appraisal.
Manage Own Professional Development within Procurement and SupplyReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Know about job roles and career progression in procurement and supply.
- Understand the skills required to work in procurement and supply.
- Assess own skills and qualities relevant to a career in procurement and supply.
- Produce a personal development plan.
- Implement and monitor own personal development plan.
Manage a Procurement in Accordance with EU Public Procurement RulesReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand EU public procurement rules.
- Produce specifications which comply with EU procurement rules.
- Plan the procurement process.
- Implement the procurement plan.
Monitor the Performance of SuppliersReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to monitor a supplier's performance.
- Define the criteria to be used to monitor the performance of suppliers.
- Identify suppliers that require performance monitoring.
- Gather and use data to analyse the supplier's performance.
- Present results of supplier performance analysis to stakeholders with recommendations for supplier performance improvement.
Negotiate for SuppliesReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the process of negotiation in procurement and supply.
- Prepare for the negotiation of supplies.
- Produce a negotiation plan for the negotiation of supplies.
- Conduct a negotiation meeting for supplies.
- Implement the agreement.
Place and Expedite Orders with SuppliersReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the procurement ordering cycle.
- Agree purchase and delivery requirements with stakeholders.
- Place orders with suppliers.
- Monitor the progress of orders.
- Deal with problems relating to the delivery of orders.
Stakeholder Relationships in Procurement and SupplyReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of stakeholder relationships in procurement and supply.
- Gather and present information on stakeholder relationships in procurement and supply.
- Maintain and improve stakeholder relationships in procurement and supply.
The Procurement and Supply EnvironmentReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of procurement and supply in different sectors.
- Understand the procurement and supply process.
- Understand how procurement and supply can be managed in organisations.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Administer contracts
- Analyse and evaluate information on the procurement of supplies in the supply chain
- Analyse and evaluate the performance of suppliers
- Apply required regulations and reporting protocols to the procurement and contracting process
- Capture and analyse data for expenditure and financial control in procurement and supply
- Carry out stock control within a vehicle parts operation
- Champion and promote the role of procurement and supply to stakeholders
- Conduct a supplier appraisal for the sustainable procurement of goods, services or works
Where this can lead
Contracts Administrator
This role is a fantastic launchpad. If you're keen to learn, meticulous about details, and want to build a career in a critical business function, then we'd love to hear from you. We'll give you the tools and the guidance; you bring the drive.
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Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for SEG Awards ABC Level 3 Certificate In Procurement and Supply
13 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Skills and Education Group Awards.
- Administer Contracts
- Administer a Stock Control System
- Analyse Information about Procurement and Supply
- Customer Service in Own Area of Responsibility
- Determine Requirements for Procurement and Supply
- Identify and Appraise Potential Suppliers of Non-Critical Supplies
and 7 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
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Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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