Provision of online Supply Chain Management Training (‘SCM Schoolhouse’) for United Nations (UN) ...

Background of this request Through the Supply Chain Management (SCM) Strategy , the UN HQ Department of Field Support (DFS) is engaged in implementing a global multi-year transformative programme envisioned to streamline, optimise and better integrate current UN supply chain business processes. DFS intends to make support to UN peacekeeping operations in a more efficient and cost-effective manner and to establish a more reliable, agile and responsive UN supply chain network. In order to successfully implement the DFS SCM Strategy in line with industry best practices and supply chain standards, DFS seeks to provide an online training platform (the ‘SCM Schoolhouse’) for UN supply chain staff members who operate worldwide at all operational and professional levels. Through this request, DFS looks to establish a valuable and flexible modular capacity building tool that can enable effective and efficient professional re-profiling of current UN supply chain staff members and that will provide instrumental support to the successful implementation of the UN SCM strategy. DFS intends to utilise the online SCM capacity building tool to train and re-profile up to 3000 UN supply chain staff who have different levels of experience and responsibilities in a diverse range of supply chain activities. The request – key training requirements This request is for Companies that can demonstrate their experience and capability to: a) Deliver commercially-available, off-the-shelf, modular web-based Supply Chain Management training in English and preferably also in French; and, b) Develop and deliver tailored web-based online ‘SCM Schoolhouse’ training in English and preferably also in French. The requested UN ‘SCM Schoolhouse’ must cover end-to-end Supply Chain topic areas such as, but not limited to: supply chain management, requirement analysis, demand and acquisition planning, inbound and outbound processes, inventory management, warehousing planning and management, financial and information Supply Chain flows, etc. The Contractor shall provide the ‘SCM Schoolhouse’ modular online training courses in English 24/7 on a web-based secured Learning Management System, where UN training delegates may take, at their own pace, specific assigned courses, depending on the intended re-profiled functions of trainees within the Supply Chain Management initiative. The Contractor should also be willing and able to also provide training modules through the UN’s online Inspira training platform, in cooperation with relevant UN partners. The Contractor shall be available to integrate UN tailored course topics into the proposed standard online modular supply chain training platform, on the basis of UN supporting documentation to be provided by the UN and according to UN training requirements. In addition to English, the Contractor should preferably be available to deliver the UN ‘SCM Schoolhouse’ in French. Capacity to deliver training modules in one or more other UN official languages will be a plus, such as: Spanish, Chinese, Arabic and Russian. The Contractor should be available to include in the proposed UN ‘SCM Schoolhouse’ also Business and Management related courses, such as, but not limited to: Project and Programme Management, Change Management, Risk Management, Business Planning, etc.