Gateway Qualifications Limited · RQF Level 5
Gateway Qualifications Level 5 Diploma In Procurement
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits60
- Guided learning300 hours
- Units in this qualification21
Awarded by Gateway Qualifications Limited · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Gateway Qualifications Limited 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.
Develop Sustainability in the Supply ChainReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand sustainability in the supply chain.
- Produce a supply chain sustainability plan.
- Implement a supply chain sustainability plan.
- Review the performance of the supply chain sustainability plan.
Develop a Category Management StrategyReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits of category management.
- Determine areas for category management.
- Develop a category management strategy.
- Communicate a category management strategy.
Develop and Implement Operational Plans for ProcurementReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to develop operational plans for procurement.
- Determine operational objectives in procurement.
- Develop an operational plan in procurement.
- Implement and monitor operational plan in procurement.
- Review operational plan in procurement.
Developing Collaborative Relationships with Other OrganisationsReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate potential collabourative opportunities with other organisations.
- Agree the strategic aims and objectives of collabouration.
- Agree methods and expected outcomes of collabouration.
- Instigate and sustain a collabourative relationship with another organisation.
- Review and evaluate the collabouration with another organisation.
Evaluate Supplier PerformanceReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how supplier performance should be evaluated.
- Gather information to evaluate supplier performance.
- Evaluate information on supplier performance.
- Discuss results of supplier performance evaluation with stakeholders.
Improve the Performance of the Supply ChainReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how an effective supply chain supports organisational strategy.
- Evaluate the performance of the supply chain.
- Develop a plan for improving the performance of the supply chain.
- Implement and monitor plan for improving the performance of the supply chain.
- Review the improvements to the performance of the supply chain.
Manage InventoryReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of inventory management.
- Be able determine supplies for stockholding.
- Replenish stock levels.
- Monitor stock usage.
- Change inventory levels.
- Measure the performance of inventory management.
Manage Procurement for a Category of ExpenditureReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the skills required to manage a procurement for a category of expenditure.
- Understand the differences between category management and conventional sourcing.
- Establish a category sourcing plan.
- Agree the category sourcing plan with stakeholders.
- Implement the category sourcing plan.
- Establish contractual relationships with category supplier(s).
Manage Risk in ProcurementReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand risk management in procurement.
- Undertake a procurement risk assessment.
- Produce risk reduction plans.
- Implement risk reduction plans.
- Manage outcomes of risk reduction plans.
Manage Supplier RelationshipsReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand supplier relationship management.
- Develop a supplier relationship management plan.
- Measure supplier relationship performance.
- Produce report of supplier relationship performance.
- Conduct supplier review meetings.
- Produce continuous improvement plans for supplier relationship performance.
- Implement continuous improvement plans for supplier relationship performance.
Manage the Flow of Supplies in the Supply ChainReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the tools and techniques for managing the flow of supplies in the supply chain.
- Agree a delivery schedule.
- Manage any potential changes to the schedule.
- Ensure the flow of supplies complies with the delivery schedule.
- Evaluate the performance of the flow of supplies in the supply chain.
Operations Management ProcessesReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of operations and operations management within business.
- Understand the design of operations processes.
- Understand the correlation between operations management and strategic planning.
- Introduce improvements to the value chain that could enhance competitive advantage in business.
- Manage the key challenges to improve operational management performance.
Plan Change in Own Area of ResponsibilityReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to plan change.
- Develop plans for change in own area of responsibility.
- Develop systems for monitoring and assessing progress.
- Evaluate barriers and determine ways to overcome resistance to planned change.
- Develop a communication strategy to facilitate the process for change.
Plan the Storage of Supplies in the Supply ChainReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand best practice relating to planning the storage of supplies in the supply chain.
- Evaluate the requirements for storage of supplies in the supply chain.
- Plan the storage of supplies in the supply chain.
- Manage the implementation of the storage plan.
Project Management in ProcurementReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of project management
- Determine the specific requirements and objectives of projects within a procurement context
- Produce a comprehensive and realistic project plan for a procurement project
- Effectively manage a procurement project, adhering to the project plan and managing resources
- Evaluate the outcomes of a procurement project, identifying successes and areas for improvement
Promote the Use of Technology within an OrganisationReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a strategy to promote the use of technology, in line with organisational values and customer needs.
- Implement a strategy for promoting technology across an organisation.
- Monitor and review the impact of an organisation’s technology strategy, in line with best practice.
Provide Leadership and Direction for Own Area of ResponsibilityReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Assess own capacity to lead in own area of responsibility.
- Provide direction and set objectives in own area of responsibility.
- Communicate the direction for own area of responsibility and collect feedback to inform improvement.
- Assess own leadership performance.
Quality ManagementReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to evaluate the range of quality management systems appropriate for use in business.
- Understand the advantages of an organisation having a quality management system in place.
- Implement quality control processes.
- Implement quality management processes to improve organisational performance.
Recruit Staff in Own Area of ResponsibilityReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Review human resource requirements to meet business objectives in own area of responsibility.
- Understand the importance of ensuring that recruitment and selection processes meet legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements.
- Participate in the recruitment and selection process.
- Evaluate the recruitment and selection process.
Schedule the Flow of Supplies in the Supply ChainReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of scheduling the flow of supplies in the supply chain.
- Analyse the demand for supplies in the supply chain.
- Produce schedules for supplies in the supply chain.
- Monitor and review the performance of suppliers against schedules of supplies.
Work Productively with Colleagues and StakeholdersReal unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Provide colleagues and stakeholders with information.
- Consult with colleagues and stakeholders in relation to decisions or activities.
- Understand the importance of fulfilling agreements and honouring commitments made to colleagues and stakeholders.
- Understand how to manage potential conflicts of interest.
- Understand how to monitor working relationships.
- Review and improve the effectiveness of working relationships.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 5 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.
- Analyse and evaluate the performance of suppliers
- Apply Improvements to the Supply Chain
- Conduct a supplier appraisal for the sustainable procurement of goods, services or works
- Develop and implement a plan for appropriate cost effective category management expenditure
- Develop preferred supplier relationships for your design business
- Develop, implement and monitor plans for ethical employment and working practices with suppliers
- Develop, implement and monitor plans for the ethical supply of goods, services or works by suppliers
- Devise sales strategies to suit procurement practices of customers
Where this can lead
Category Management Specialist
Your journey here starts with getting your hands dirty and making a real impact on our spending. Where you go from there is really up to you and how much you want to learn and grow. We're here to support you every step of the way.
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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 Gateway Qualifications Level 5 Diploma In Procurement
21 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Gateway Qualifications Limited.
- Develop Sustainability in the Supply Chain
- Develop a Category Management Strategy
- Develop and Implement Operational Plans for Procurement
- Developing Collaborative Relationships with Other Organisations
- Evaluate Supplier Performance
- Improve the Performance of the Supply Chain
and 15 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.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
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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