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Contracting and Legal Oversight

Course Description

Contracting and Legal Oversight provides you with a holistic and integrated understanding of contract law, contract types, key industry standard contract terms, and contract structure to improve your confidence when creating or modifying contract documents. The program is geared to reinforce standards of excellence for professionals who are responsible for delivering contractual agreements and mitigating financial risk for their organizations.

This course is also available as a private or corporate offering. Visit the Supply Chain and Logistics Corporate Training page to learn more.

Course Content

LAW OF AGENCY OVERVIEW

CONTRACT AGREEMENT TYPES

DEFINING KEY TERMS

CONTRACT STRUCTURE AND DRAFTING

RISK MITIGATION AND COMMUNICATION

Session Details

  • Special Discounts: All residents of the State of Georgia are eligible for a 50% discount while funds last thanks to a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration. Use of this discount is subject to verification of GA residency. Enter coupon code SCL-GAAIM at checkout (cannot be combined with other discounts).

    Non-Georgia residents can register and pay for all required courses in a Supply Chain & Logistics certificate and receive a discount of 17% off per course. Enter coupon code SCL-Cert at checkout. Review coupon instructions for more information.

    If you have 3 or more participants from your organization, please contact us for volume discounts at course@scl.gatech.edu.

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for contract managers, procurement professionals, sourcing initiative leaders, project managers and all procurement and supply management-related professionals involved with bid contract development, contract execution or supplier performance management.

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What You Will Learn

  • Contract law and applicable law of agency concepts
  • Common contract types to structure more robust contractual agreements
  • Key contract terms and their applicable utilization in different sourcing categories
  • How to develop or modify master service and product agreements to meet the buying organization’s needs
  • Methods for accelerating internal communication and negotiations preparation
  • How to streamline risk management communication to leverage leadership support for contract closure
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How You Will Benefit

  • Increase knowledge base in law of agency concepts to gain more confidence with contracting.
  • Enhance understanding of industry standard contract types and contract terms for more robust contract agreements.
  • Better leverage sourcing category knowledge to modify existing contract elements for more holistic contract agreements.
  • Improve internal contract execution communication for better results.
  • Heighten sense of executive financial impact and risk needs to gain leadership early support.
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I am really impressed with the scope of subjects covered and the practical case studies in diverse sectors from health, education, and other public sector projects.

- Kenny Onasanya
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