Why Choose this course
Understand AI, Apply LLMs, Lead Responsibly
This foundation course gives you a clear, practical understanding of AI, with a particular focus on Large Language Models (LLMs) and how they apply across the procurement lifecycle. You’ll leave able to explain core AI concepts, understand where LLMs genuinely help and where they fall short, write stronger prompts, identify realistic LLM use cases in your own role, and assess the governance and information risks that come with using them.
This is a foundation-level course: it builds the shared understanding every procurement professional needs, then focuses specifically on practical LLM use across the lifecycle. It doesn’t attempt to provide deep specialist training in every procurement discipline, or teach the design and deployment of AI agents, those are covered in separate, more advanced pathways once this foundation is in place.
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What does this course cover?
- The current AI landscape, and how AI is changing knowledge-based work
- Core concepts: digitisation, rule-based automation, AI and machine learning, generative AI and LLMs, and where assistants, copilots and agents fit
- Mapping where AI can genuinely add value across the procurement operating model, strategy, category management, sourcing, contracts, procure-to-pay, supplier management, governance and analytics
- What LLMs do well and where they fail, including hallucinations, and why verification and human judgement remain essential
- A repeatable method for writing stronger prompts — task, context, audience, constraints, format and iteration
- Practical LLM use cases across the procurement lifecycle: category strategy, RFx drafting, contract review, supplier management, spend analytics and governance documentation
- Responsible AI use — confidential and commercially sensitive information, bias, intellectual property, accountability and escalation
- An introduction to agentic AI, how it differs from everyday LLM use, and where it fits as a next step beyond this course
Is this course for me?
Career roles we recommend this course for
- Procurement managers
- Governance Specialists
- Procurement officers
- Category and sourcing professionals
- Contract and supplier relationship managers
- Analysts
- Buyers
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