BP Angola

BP spends approximately $60 billion annually with third parties. The role of the procurement and supply chain is to ensure they get the right products, services and goods to the right place at the right time and cost. In Angola, a small market of talent with little experience presented BP with a serious challenge. It was with these limitations in mind that BP engaged CIPS to train its Angolan Procurement and Supply team. CIPS’ role was to develop and deliver a comprehensive training programme based on the needs of the business in this specific market.

CIPS Corporate award

Why did BP Angola choose CIPS Corporate Award?

CIPS has run many successful learning and development programmes throughout BP and so was the first port-of-call for BP’s operations in Angola.

The pool of procurement and supply chain talent in Angola is particularly small, making training and development a critical requirement. In developing countries, access to high quality procurement training is limited or non-existent as are qualified personnel. Typically a manager works with a very limited number of properly trained, local people, hence the role of CIPS was to develop and deliver a training programme based on the needs of the business in this very specific market.

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BP Angola has approximately 40 people on the CIPS Corporate Award programme. Several have graduated to MCIPS which has helped them progress in BP to higher positions of Team Leads or Sub Team Leads. The additional skills have allowed students to develop into procurement professionals who are more able to conduct tenders, evaluate the responses, recommend contract awards and manage the supplier more professionally. They now know how to analyse the market in relation to supply demand, use tools such as Kraljic to analyse the suppliers within the markets, conduct Porters 5 Force analysis, and help to drive the total cost of ownership for BP, ensuring value creation.