Procurement Strategies to increase compliance and brand partnerships

HOTL203
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Main contact
Centennial College
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Susan  Chandy
Professor/Program Coordinator
1
Timeline
  • September 9, 2019
    Experience start
  • September 24, 2019
    Interviews/Presentations with the client and brand representative (Project Scope Meeting)
  • November 30, 2019
    First phase - All student teams will present their presentation internal panel of the Program Coordinator and the Faculty Advisors.
  • December 14, 2019
    Second phase
  • December 14, 2019
    Experience end
Experience
1 projects wanted
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Startup, Large enterprise, Small to medium enterprise, Sole proprietorship
Hospitality, Travel & tourism

Experience scope

Categories
Market research Operations Project management Sales strategy
Skills
process analysis business strategy data analysis problem solving research
Learner goals and capabilities

Procurement & Partnership Success.

Are you hotel/brand with corporate partners who offer preferred rates to their employees? Do your partners want to increase employee compliance?

In this project, our students will work with you and your chosen corporate partner to increase travel policy compliance with their business travellers and strengthen your strategic relationship.

Learners

Learners
Undergraduate
Any level
20 learners
Project
80 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Teams of 5
Expected outcomes and deliverables

1) The student teams will put together a major paper and presentation that will analyze both the brand and the Procurement Manager’s company; the current procurement program, the issues with compliance, their SWOT, how brands can grow their influence with the client and propose a strategic plan on what the clients can do.

2) The top 3 teams will be given feedback (as relevant) and present to a final panel comprised of the Procurement Manager, Brand Representative, Program Coordinator, Chair of Hospitality Management and Dean of SHTCA who will choose a final winner and the client will be provided the winning submission to implement the strategies set by the Centennial SHTCA students.

Project timeline
  • September 9, 2019
    Experience start
  • September 24, 2019
    Interviews/Presentations with the client and brand representative (Project Scope Meeting)
  • November 30, 2019
    First phase - All student teams will present their presentation internal panel of the Program Coordinator and the Faculty Advisors.
  • December 14, 2019
    Second phase
  • December 14, 2019
    Experience end

Project examples

The students will work closely with a faculty supervisor to partner with a selected Brand representative from your organization and one of your partner's Procurement Managers to identify the struggles and opportunities with compliance and discuss business strategies on how to create a preferred partnership that will shift/grow their market share.

Students will complete this project by proposing a series of recommendations on how to provide compliance and strategies for partnerships.

Students will investigate what strategies your company has in place and provide recommendations on:

  • What your company could implement to create a higher travel policy compliance with their business travellers?
  • How do Brands help to support the compliance and grow their share whilst becoming the primary preferred partner?

Students can address any challenge or opportunity in the procurement/brand management space. Project examples include, but are by no means limited to, the following:

  • Developing a brand new compliance plan for their company based on a series of analysis and recommendations.
  • Analyze a current policy and developing a redesign of the compliance policy.
  • An overview of what multiple brands do to deepen the compliance partnership with clients and provide recommendations for strengthening their current strategy.

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

  • Q1 - Checkbox
  • Q2 - Checkbox
  • Q3 - Checkbox
  • Q4 - Checkbox