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How you’d get it

How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply.

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01What it is

Get your CIPS Advanced Procurement Certificate . Boost your career prospects with a CIPS Qualification.

These are the units Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply. It does the teaching and the mapping. Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Contract administration Real unit · Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply
This unit provides learners with knowledge of the administrative content and key tasks associated with commercial contracts. You'll explore achieving competitive pricing through negotiation, effective tendering processes, and methods for measuring contract performance.

What you'll be able to do

  • Describe the main administrative content and key tasks associated with commercial contracts
  • Explain how to achieve competitive pricing and the role of negotiation in procurement and supply
  • Describe how effective tendering is achieved
  • Describe how to measure contract performance
Ethical procurement and supply Real unit · Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply
It teaches you to recognise techniques that add value in procurement and supply and understand their contribution to organisational success. You'll describe the sourcing process stages, the significance of ethics, and methods to measure and improve operational performance.

What you'll be able to do

  • Recognise the main techniques that can achieve added value and their contribution to organisational success
  • Describe the main tasks associated with each stage of the sourcing process
  • Identify the significance of ethics for procurement and supply
  • Explain how the operational performance of the procurement and supply function can be measured and improved
Procurement and supply environments Real unit · Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply
You'll gain an understanding of procurement and supply across different sectors, including public, private, manufacturing, and service industries. The unit covers various pricing arrangements in commercial agreements, the external environment's impact, and regulatory procedures.

What you'll be able to do

  • Recognise the different sectors of procurement and supply
  • Understand the main types of pricing arrangements in commercial agreements
  • Recognise the external environment and its impact on procurement and supply
  • Explain procedures that regulate procurement and supply
Socially responsible procurement Real unit · Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply
This unit introduces learners to the concepts of sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) within a business context. You'll examine the implications of CSR for procurement and supply functions and understand the environmental impacts associated with these activities.

What you'll be able to do

  • Explain the core concepts of sustainability in a business context
  • Explain the core concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in a business context
  • Describe the implications of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for the procurement function
  • Describe the implications of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for the supply function
  • Understand the potential environmental impact of procurement activities
  • Understand the potential environmental impact of supply activities
Socially responsible warehousing and distribution Real unit · Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply
You'll understand methods for storage and movement of inventory within warehousing, including racking systems, automated storage, and bulk storage. The unit covers transportation principles, the role of warehousing, and the environmental impact of warehousing and distribution activities.

What you'll be able to do

  • Describe the main methods used for the storage of inventory within a warehousing environment
  • Describe the main methods used for the movement of inventory within a warehousing environment
  • Understand the key principles of transportation within logistics operations
  • Define the role of warehousing within the broader supply chain
  • Define the role of storage within the broader supply chain
  • Describe the potential environmental impact of warehousing activities
  • Describe the potential environmental impact of distribution activities
Team dynamics and change Real unit · Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply
You'll explore how individual skills and behaviours contribute to success in procurement and supply functions. The unit covers team dynamics, their influence on performance, and the challenges and methods involved in achieving organisational change.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how individual contributions can support overall organisational success in procurement
  • Understand how individual contributions can support overall organisational success in supply
  • Describe the dynamics of teams operating within procurement and supply functions
  • Explain the influence of team dynamics on procurement activities
  • Explain the influence of team dynamics on supply activities
  • Understand the challenges commonly associated with organisational change initiatives
  • Understand the methods that can be used to achieve successful organisational change
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03Where it leads

The jobs these credits are mapped to

A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.

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Where this can lead

Ethical Sourcing Coordinator

This work can lead to managing ethical sourcing or sustainability programmes, or into wider procurement and compliance roles.

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04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Contract administrationEthical procurement and supplyProcurement and supply environmentsSocially responsible procurementSocially responsible warehousing and distributionTeam dynamics and change

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Coach The Coach · your practice partner Illustration
The Coach You have to tell the team what “Team dynamics and change” means for them next month. Say it to me now, the way you would say it to them.
You The new process goes live on the 3rd and full training will be provided.
The Coach That is the announcement. Now try the one that starts with the bit they are going to hate, and we will see which you would rather receive.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
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    “Team dynamics and change” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Contract administration, one of this qualification's own units.

Contract administration Level 3

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Ethical Sourcing CoordinatorHead of Contract ManagementAssociate Ethical Sourcing CoordinatorProcurement Change ManagerSenior Procurement Change ManagerCorporate Social Responsibility Procurement Director

This unit provides learners with knowledge of the administrative content and key tasks associated with commercial contracts. Learners will explore achieving competitive pricing through negotiation, effective tendering processes, and methods for measuring contract performance.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
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Your Plan Illustration

Built for CIPS Level 3 Advanced Certificate in Procurement and Supply Operations

6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply.

  1. Contract administration
  2. Ethical procurement and supply
  3. Procurement and supply environments
  4. Socially responsible procurement
  5. Socially responsible warehousing and distribution
  6. Team dynamics and change
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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