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CIPS L4M2 Exam Syllabus Topics:

TopicDetails
Topic 1
  • Approaches to total costs of ownership
  • whole life cycle costing
  • Interpret financial budgets for the control of purchases
Topic 2
  • Monitor specification creation by colleagues and other internal stakeholders
  • Analyse how business needs influence procurement decisions
Topic 3
  • Identify sections of specifications for through life contracts
  • Identify how costs and prices can be estimated for procurement activities
Topic 4
  • Output or outcome, statement of work based specifications
  • Types of market data that can provide information on costs and prices
Topic 5
  • Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on implementation
  • Implications of the business needs on the types of purchase
Topic 6
  • Analyse the criteria that can be applied in the creation of a business case
  • Availability of substitutes and threat of entry
Topic 7
  • Identify opportunities to regulate short and longer term specifications
  • Procurement’s role in developing a business case
Topic 8
  • Understand the use of specifications in procurement and supply
  • Analyse the different types of markets utilised by procurement and supply
Topic 9
  • Understand how to devise a business case for requirements to be sourced from external suppliers
  • Producing estimated costs and budgets
Topic 10
  • Identify the risks that can result from inadequate specifications and mitigation approaches
  • Use information to prepare budgets or to negotiate prices

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CIPS Defining Business Needs Sample Questions (Q48-Q53):

NEW QUESTION # 48
Buyers in the same industry with the same understanding of relative value and price may still make different decisions about whether to switch. Which of the following factors may prompt a buying organization to incline toward substitute products?
1. There is potential for backward integration
2. Access to financial resources
3. The switching cost is high
4. The substitute fits organisation's strategy

  • A. 3 and 4 only
  • B. 1 and 4 only
  • C. 1 and 2 only
  • D. 2 and 4 only

Answer: D

Explanation:
The threat of substitution is a function of three factors:
* The relative value/ price of a substitute compared to an industry's product
* The cost of switching to the substitute
* The buyer's propensity to switch
Buyers with different circumstances and in different industries do not all have equal propensities to substitute when faced with a comparable economic motivation. Differences in their circumstances lead buyers to respond to a given relative value to price (RVP) and switching cost differently. While such differences might be treated as factors that modify RVP or switching costs, it is more helpful in practice to isolate them.
Resources. Substitution often involves up-front investments of capital and other resources. Access to such resources will differ from one buyer to another.
Risk Profile. Buyers often have very different risk profiles, the result of such things as their past history, age and income, ownership structure, background and orientation of management, and nature of competition in their industry. Buyers prone to risk taking are more likely to substitute than buyers that are risk-averse.
Technological Orientation. Buyers experienced with technological change may be less concerned with some kinds of substitution risks, while extremely aware of others that a less technologically sophisticated buyer would be oblivious to.
Previous Substitutions. The second substitution may be easier for a buyer than the first, unless the first substitution has been a failure. The buyer's uncertainties over undertaking a substitution may have diminished if a past substitution has been successful, or risen if a past substitution has led to difficulties. In the soft drink industry, this seems to have worked to the benefit of aspartame.
Intensity of Rivalry. Buyers under intense competitive pressure and searching for competitive ad-vantage will tend to substitute more quickly to gain a given advantage than those that are not.
Generic Strategy. The RVP of a substitute will have different significance depending on the com-petitive advantage that industrial, commercial, or institutional buyers are seeking or the value of time and particular performance needs of the household buyer. A substitute that offers a cost saving will tend to be of more interest to a cost leader than a differentiator, for example.
Many of these factors that shape the buyer's propensity to substitute will be a function of the particular decision maker who is involved in the purchase decision.
Porter, Michael E.. Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance (p. 278-289). Free Press. Kindle Edition.
Reference:
LO 2, AC 2.2


NEW QUESTION # 49
Bob is a new procurement specialist at XYZ Ltd. He is assigned to categorise the company's sup-plies. After analysing, Bob realises that a group of low value products is sourced from a tiny geo-graphical area which is prone to flooding. What would be the best strategy to manage this category of products?

  • A. Assign some of procurement jobs to user department
  • B. Find an alternative source to secure supply
  • C. Form partnership relationship with the current supplier
  • D. Source this group of products from only one supplier

Answer: B

Explanation:
In the scenario, the products have low value and high risk of supply. This group is known as bottleneck or critical in Kraljic's portfolio matrix. The objective for such items would be securing the supply. The company can achieve this goal by 'making' the products themselves, or finding an alternative option.
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Reference:
LO 2, AC 2.1


NEW QUESTION # 50
Despite of better improvement rates than other types of benchmarking, functional benchmarking still has downsides. Which of the following is most likely to be a disadvantage of functional benchmarking?

  • A. Legal issues regarding intellectual property
  • B. Difference of corporate cultures across companies
  • C. Benchmarking can only be undertaken within an industry
  • D. Unfair competition

Answer: B

Explanation:
Functional benchmarking is a comparison to similar or identical practices (e.g., the picking process for assembling customer orders, maintaining inventory controls of spare computer parts, logistics to move operational forces, etc.) within the same or similar functions outside the immediate industry. Functional benchmarking might identify practices that are superior in your functional areas in whatever industry they may exist. Functional benchmarking would be accomplished at the federal level by comparing the IRS collections process against those of American Express. Comparing copper mining techniques to coal mining techniques is an example in the private sector.
Benefits
- Provides industry trend information
- Quantitative comparisons
- Better improvement rate
Challenges
- Diverse corporate cultures
- Great need for specificity
- Not invented here. syndrome
- Common functions can be difficult to find
- Takes more time than internal or percent
- Must be able to visualize how to adapt the best practices
Source: USN Benchmarking Handbook
LO 1, AC 1.3


NEW QUESTION # 51
OMK is a Russian steel firm that is expanding market abroad. It plans to build a steel plant in a foreign country. Due to intricate technical requirements, the plant design will be very complex. Procurement department or technical department alone cannot draft the specification. OMK senior management decides that this task must be treated as a project. Which of the following should be done before writing the specification for new steel plant?

  • A. Invite suppliers to the tendering process
  • B. Develop the performance framework for the supplier
  • C. Draft the terms and conditions for plant construction contract
  • D. Develop project initial document

Answer: D

Explanation:
The writing of a complex specification should be treated as a project because it requires the brain power from different stakeholders. Many tools and processes of project management can be applied to complex specification development. Before engaging with the stakeholders and implementing the project, the project initial document should developed.
A Project Initiation Document (PID) is one of the most important components of project manage-ment, which forms the foundation for a company project. It is a reference point during the entire project, for the client as well as for the project team.
A PID bundles documentation into a logical reference work that collects all important information needed to start and run a project from a good foundation. After that, Project Initiation Document must be transferred to all stakeholders, including business sponsors.
This forms the basis for the project management. The documentation from which the PID is com-posed include the business case in which the project's justification can be found, the communica-tion plan and the project plan.
The PID is composed out of collected information and includes, among others, the following com-ponents:
- Project goal(s); what do you want to achieve with the project?
- Project size; how large is the project, how long does it take and how many people are involved?
- Project organisation; who are involved in the project, what are their tasks, responsibilities and authority?
- Limits and risks; what can cause a project to stagnate and are there risks related to the project?
- Stakeholders; who has a stake in the success of the project?
- Project checks and frame reporting; by carefully taking into account evaluation moments, it is clear to everyone what sample tests can be carried out during the process.
In addition, it is important that the Project Initiation Document also contains the following infor-mation:
- The background and occasion of the project, which together provide information about the con-text.
- The project organisational structure, which describes who has which management responsibility in the project.
- The project quality plan, describing who controls the quality of the products to be delivered and how it will take place.
- The total project planning, including the duration of all activities.
- The exception process, which describes how exceptions are dealt with and the steps of the escalation procedure.
- The risk log, including the measures that will be taken when there are unforeseen risks.
- The documentation structure of the project, in which the encoding and storage of all documents and products to be provided by the project has been recorded in advance.
Reference:
- CIPS study guide page 148
- Project Initiation Document (PID), a project management tool | ToolsHero LO 3, AC 3.3


NEW QUESTION # 52
Which of the following are likely to be disadvantages of using outcome-based specifications? Select THREE that apply

  • A. Long time delay between action and result
  • B. Responsibility for product failure falling to buyer
  • C. Ambiguity of outcome
  • D. Difficulty to measure performance
  • E. Time consuming to produce
  • F. Stifling innovation

Answer: A,C,D

Explanation:
An Outcome Based Specification (OBS) focuses on the desired outcome of a service in business terms, rather than a detailed technical specification of how the service is to be provided; this allows providers scope to propose innovative solutions that might not have occurred to the procurement team. Outcome should be distinguished from output, which is the measurable results of a set of inputs. The example of difference between outcome and output is written at the bottom of page 123 in the study guide.
Outcomes should be the starting point in making new specification. However, using outcome-based specification has some setbacks:
- First, it is not easy to measure the outcomes. Usually, outcome of a project is a statement like 'increase customer satisfaction', 'maintain ambient temperature' or 'provide a convenient way to do something'. They are not easy to measure as output.
- Second, sometimes the desired outcomes require time to be materialised
- Third, outcomes can be ambiguous
Reference:
LO3, AC 3.1


NEW QUESTION # 53
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