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Special Topics and Specialization Wrap-up (Coursera)

Offered by Rutgers University,

This is the final course in the Specialization. After a brief introduction, the course will cover two Special Topics that weren't covered in the previous courses, but considered very important. The first topic is procurement's role in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) and the second topic is Suppliers Diversity and reviews why both of these initiatives are important to procurement and your firm any how to implement them.

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From there, the course has a review of the entire Specialization by restating all the Key Take-Aways from all the courses. This is meant to be a review for the Final Assessment.
Lastly, there is a Final Assessment consisting of 40 multiple choice question.
This course is part of the Advanced Global Procurement and Sourcing Specialization.

Syllabus

Introduction to Course 7 Special Topics and Specialization Wrap-up
Special Topics
Review: Key Take-aways from the Specialization
.pdf file for the student of Course 7 Lectures

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