The correlation of Supply Chain Management and Project Management has, until recently, generally been overlooked. However; in recent years it has been recognized that they are highly complementary. Linkedin currently has in excess of 30000 job vacancies with the title Supply Chain Project Manager seeking individuals with experience of both Supply Chain Management and Project Management capable of managing and transforming the Supply Chain in their organisations to reduce costs, increase resilience, improve sustainability and support general transformation. A Supply Chain Manager with strong project management experience will stand out from the crowd by demonstrating not only the thought leadership, influencing, communication, conflict resolution and problem solving skills of the highly effective project manager in order to drive supply management business decisions balancing revenue generation, profitability and risk. A Project Manager without Supply Chain experience will struggle to understand the implications on project scope, schedule, quality and budget if they are not familiar with their organisation’s supply chain procurement processes and systems and how these integrate with operations, logistics and other key functions to create added value. Conversely a Supply Chain Professionals will struggle to transform and improve the supply chain function if they don't have the skills, techniques and knowledge of the methodologies and tools of Project Management. This highly interactive 5 day SCPM™ program deals will many of these issues and provides a framework to increase personal abilities and project management skills in a supply management project environment by bringing together the existing knowledge of supply management professionals with the basic planning and project governance tools and techniques needed to be an effective project manager. The course will also teach delegates advanced techniques for identifying, dealing with and communicating with Stakeholders; techniques for identifying and mitigating risks and issues; advanced communication techniques; techniques which help project managers become more situationally aware and able to predict, prevent or resolve problems; techniques to recruit and select the best people, and how to deal with imperfect team structures that they may inherit and will guide you through the complexities of Personality Profiling and how you can us this enhanced awareness to communicate and influence more effectively. Many project management toolsets and methodologies qualify you to only operate in that particular environment. Whilst SCPMTM is toolset and methodology independent the course will discuss the various methodologies (traditional and modern) and when best to utilize them. The skills and techniques you will learn and demonstrate from this course will prove to be invaluable to you regardless of the toolsets or methodologies used by your organisation.