Purchasing Green Belt

Seven days that take you from a good buyer to a strategic professional, with your own category as proof.

The Inkoop Green Belt is the seven-day training course offered by the Supply Value Academy for buyers with three to eight years of experience who are making the transition to tactical-strategic work. The course covers purchasing strategy, category management and portfolio analysis, cost management and TCO, in-depth contract and supplier management, and advanced negotiation. Participants work towards a strategic category plan for their own organization. The course lasts seven days over ten weeks and concludes with a case assessment and the Inkoop Green Belt certificate.

Why this training

At some point, “running good courses” is no longer enough: your organization expects you to drive categories, structurally reduce costs, and get suppliers to perform. That tactical-strategic level is exactly where the Green Belt takes you.

The common thread is not a fictional case study but your own purchasing category. At the end, there is a strategic category plan that you present to your management; the assessment is immediately your business case.

You can do this afterwards

  • You analyze your portfolio and determine an appropriate strategy for each category.
  • You build a category plan with spend analysis, market analysis, and a concrete value agenda.
  • You base your pricing on total cost of ownership (TCO) rather than price, and credibly justify savings.
  • You move contract and supplier management to the tactical level: differentiation, measurement, development.
  • You negotiate at the sharpest point, with strategy, mandate and backbone.

Target group

(Senior) buyers, purchasing advisors and upcoming category managers with three to eight years of experience who want to make the transition from execution to strategic management. Public and private.

Prerequisites: Purchasing Yellow Belt or equivalent basic qualification (a basic training in purchasing, or demonstrable several years of independent purchasing experience). If you are unsure, take the free level check.

Program

  • Purchasing strategy: from organizational goals to the purchasing agenda
  • Portfolio analysis and spend analysis as a compass (not as a gimmick)
  • The development of a category plan that convinces decision-makers
  • Start your own case study: your category as the thread that runs through the learning path
  • Cost management and TCO: calculating what it really costs
  • Support pricing negotiations with cost breakdowns and should-cost models
  • Contract management at the tactical level: focusing on value over the contract period
  • Supplier management and SRM: from evaluation to co-development
  • Advanced negotiation skills, practiced with a professional training actor
  • Sustainability and risk in your category: from a catchphrase to a decision-making factor
  • Presenting your strategic category plan to a panel of senior consultants
  • Peer review and refinement: your plan gets better as you go along
  • Certification Green Belt Purchasing and a glimpse into the Black Belt

Trainer

Each module is taught by the consultant who works with Supply Value the most: category management by consultants who write category plans, negotiation by the people who do it for clients [verified: final trainer staffing]. The assessment panel consists of senior consultants and a board member.

Frequently asked questions

Yes, the Green Belt covers the tactical-strategic content of the well-known advanced training course, from category management to advanced negotiation. In seven days instead of a one-year course, with a real category plan as the end result instead of just an exam.

Probably so. We test your entry level with a short level check (free of charge). This prevents you from investing seven days in a course that is too light or just too heavy for you.

Practical information

€ 4,995 p.p., excluding VAT

€ 3,950 per group per day (up to 8 participants; hall and catering provided by the client)

Duration
7 days (3 two-day blocks + assessment day) spread over ± 10 weeks
Next date
11 March 2027
Location
Zeist (office), another location by arrangement, or in-house at your location
Training format
Open registration and in-house
Educational level
HBO/WO
Group size
Maximum of 12 participants
Study tax
7 training days + approximately 4 hours per week in your category plan
Language
Dutch
Certificate
Certificate in Purchasing Green Belt (Supply Value Academy), after case assessment
Sector focus
All sectors
Bookability
Open registration according to the scheduled dates. Without scheduled dates, the training can only be booked in-house.
Included
Material, case assessment, certification and lunches
Payment
Invoice immediately after registration; payment term 14 days

Prices exclude VAT · free cancellation up to 4 weeks in advance

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Ready for the next step? Check the start dates or ask for the study guide. Employers: The Green Belt is also available in-house, with the categories from your own organization as case material.

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