The Panacea for Global Sustainable Growth & Development
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📅 12–18 October 2026
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Recognition means that a program of learning – degree, certification, credential or qualification – has met the comprehensive criteria identified in the Standard. Recognition marks the program as one that equips students and candidates with the knowledge, skills, attributes and characteristics of a purchasing and supply management professional.
Achieving Purchasing and Supply Global Standard recognition means you will be able to refer to this in any marketing and promotional materials. A formal certificate of recognition will be issued, and details of the recognised program will appear on this website. Programs meeting the standard may refer to this in marketing or promotional activities and will need to abide by the style and usage guidelines determined by the Board.
Graduates of your program will have:
gained an underpinning knowledge and understanding of the tools, techniques, models and methodologies of purchasing and supply management
a clear and comprehensive knowledge, understanding and acumen up, down and across the fields of strategic supply chain management
extensive knowledge at a strategic level in purchasing and supply management
applied this knowledge and understanding within a work context – so are well placed to add value to their organisation
All of the above achieved to an intellectual equivalence of a first degree level program.
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The Global Standard’s Board (GSB) will appoint an assessor who will review your application on its behalf. The assessor will be assigned to you throughout the period of your application process and if appropriate, as your application develops. All applications will be considered in two parts.
Part A of the application provides an opportunity for the organisation to demonstrate its legitimacy to operate and to offer and ensure the delivery and assessment of programs at the appropriate level. The assessor will review Part A of the application and make a recommendation to the GSB regarding the organisation’s eligibility to make a program application. Applicants can expect a decision on eligibility within six weeks of the application being received, provided that all of the required information has been made available to the assessor.
Once Part A of the application has been approved, the application for Part B must be received within six months from the date of this approval otherwise Part A will expire.
Part B of the application is then program specific and enables the organisation to demonstrate that the content, assessment and outcomes of the program meet the Global Standard.
As the final stage of the process, the Purchasing and Supply Global Standard Board will feedback the results of the Part B review.
Supply Chain Professionals operate in a global market place but they gain their underpinning knowledge in many different ways using many different methodologies. How do employers know that their prospective employee’s underpinning knowledge is good enough? When a student invests time, effort and money on a program of study in supply chain management, how do they know that it will be relevant to their future needs and valued by employers?
Employers know that their staff have achieved a core level of underpinning knowledge, and that it has been effectively taught and assessed – they have an assurance that the program is of high quality and covers the key underpinning knowledge required of all purchasing and supply professionals.
Students know that the program will teach them what the procurement or supply chain industry knows they need, that they will be taught and assessed properly, and that their qualification will have status around the world.
Program providers know that they are providing what industry wants and have external confirmation that their programs are relevant, effectively taught and assessed and can use the assessment process to ensure they are working to a world standard.
The introduction of the IFPSM Global Standard which has been developed to recognise and accredit full degree equivalent programmes has generated the need to develop a more elementary curriculum assessment which recognises those programmes that train in the fundamentals of procurement and supply. These programmes are more often than not a number of learning levels below the Global Standard (GS). However, all programmes submitted for assessment to the PAS must meet the requirement of delivering no less than 150 learning hours in the field of procurement and/or supply chain management.
The IFPSM PAS is focused on providing a signpost for the courses that ensures:
Relevance for today’s procurement and supply chain environment
Applicable contemporary structure and content
Robust assessment checks and balances
Adaptability for the global environment
Differentiation from the Global Standard
The features of the PAS have been designed to streamline the previous process and structure of the Certificate of Competence, and to shift the focus from program content to the structure and process required to produce and deliver high quality learning programmes. This, unlike its predecessor, allows it to recognise shorter programmes and programmes from a variety of subject areas, hence widening the scope of its eligibility.
