A construction company wishes to place the contract for the building of a new hotel with a principal contractor using a model form contract. Which of these is an advantage of using a 'model form contract'?
Which of these are elements of a contract being in existence?
Confidentiality
Written format
Legal capacity
Correct form
If the speed of change was incremental, and the extent of change was realignment, what single term might we use to describe this change?
Peter Kraljic first published his Portfolio Purchasing Model in a paper entitled ‘Purchasing Must Become Supply Management’ in the Harvard Business Review in September of which year?
Which of the following departments would be both internal customers and internal suppliers of an organisational procurement function? Select all that apply.
‘A person who cares for individuals and the team, a good listener, finds it hard to take difficult deci-sions’. From the ‘concern for people and feelings’ section of Belbin’s roles:
Conscious knowledge of one’s own character and feelings – a cornerstone of emotional intelligence – sometimes described as ‘know thyself’:
A service contract for cleaning is due for expiry after a five-year duration. Which of the following are good sources of data to create a specification for the new invitation to tender?
Incumbent supplier
Maintenance services
Alternative suppliers
Management information
Contract terms are statements by the parties to the contract as to what they understand their rights and obligations to be under the contract. It is important from the outset that there is a genuine agreement between the parties as to what the contract terms are. After the contract has been made, it is too late for either party to alter its terms unilaterally. Which of the following is another role that negotiated contract terms might play?
Taiichi Ohno came up with the notion of the ‘wastes’. How many wastes?
‘A person who solves difficult problems with original and creative ideas’. From the Belbin ‘problem solving / thinking’ section:
According to CIPS / Profex, which of the following are not external stakeholders? Select two.
An employee responsible for managing both warehousing and transport in an organisation would best be described as a:
R Meredith Belbin made a distinction in his work between 'solo leaders', who were kind-of historic leaders; and 'team leaders' who are seen as being leaders for modern times, or are 'of the future'.
From the list shown, select the one answer which represents the team leader, rather than the solo leader.
An office manager buys some wallpaper based on samples, only to find the batch of paper delivered is of a slightly different colour than the sample provided. Is this an implied term covered under sale by description?
A local hospital has had to use a number of substitute cardiac pacemaker devices, due to poor delivery performance from its regular contracted cardiac equipment supplier. Which key performance indicators would be suitable to monitor the performance of the supplier in this area to help prevent the issue from reoccurring? Select TWO that apply.
A process by which a person’s abilities are gradually developed – a lifelong process – could be de-scribed as:
The Mendelow matrix deals with:
Goals should be either / or (choose two):
Which of the following would be included in a contract to ensure satisfactory outcomes are delivered?
A performance specification has several features that make it different from a conformance specification. Which of the following are features of a performance specification? Select TWO that apply.
In what way might a contract clause be used to stop the supplier from making unwarranted price increases during the term of the contract?
Northern Province Authority (NPA) seeks to use market dialogue to improve the contract specification for a new procurement tender of a domestic waste collection contract. Which of the following topics would be appropriate for dialogue with potential suppliers?
Which two of the following are personality traits?
‘I have my doubts about that’.
'A person who sees the big picture. Thinks accurately and carefully. May lack energy and the ability to inspire others'.
Which one Belbin's team roles is being described here?
Responsibilities within a procurement function can be split into strategic, tactical or operational. Which of the following would usually be seen as operational? Choose two.
Which of the following would be most suitable for a one-off purchase agreement?
'XXX theories of leadership are now largely discredited as a means of identifying team leaders'.
This quotation comes from the Profex Publishing textbook for this subject. Which word has XXX replaced?
'A team has a common XXXX and YYYY'.
Select the one which fits best.
Management studies and experiments over several decades have found that increased participation of workers in decision-making about changes tends to lead to (choose one):
Which of the following are examples of express terms in a contract? Select TWO that apply.
Workers are naturally lazy. They lack ambition. They must be controlled.
Which two of the following are ‘soft’ factors, within the framework of the ‘McKinsey 7S’ model?
As a result of a global pandemic, a local hospital is facing significant patient capacity pressures and would like the construction of a new 50-bed ward to be prioritised and fully operational at the earliest opportunity. Which of the following pricing arrangements would support this aspiration?
Which of these describes 'consideration' within a contract?
Which one of the following is very commonly seen as being the primary role of the procurement function (especially by those outside the procurement function)?
According to CIPS / Profex, which one of the following is not a connected stakeholder? Select one.
As part of a tender, which of the following are advantages that a purchasing organisation would expect to achieve by specifying that suppliers hold certification to an international environmental management standard, such as ISO 14001?
It provides assurance that bidders have achieved a common standard of practice
It provides a guarantee that any polluting suppliers will be unable to tender
The standard is recognisable to local and international bidders
It removes the need to conduct internal environmental training
People are inherently happy at work.
Workers seek responsibility.
Financial reward at work is welcome, but motivation, job satisfaction and recognition are equally A.
Thinking of the cultural web, which of the following refers to events or routines which take place, and really matter to the people involved?
Within the overall philosophy of just-in-time production, a signalling system to indicate when the next stage of the production process needs output from the previous stage, is called:
According to CIPS, procurement and supply management for CIPS members is a(n) (choose best fit):
Thinking about the STEP / PESTEL / STEEPLE model, into which two categories would taxation most suitably fall?
Which of the following might be considered as advantages, to the supplier, of key performance indicators (KPIs)? Select TWO that apply.