About Us

What We Are All About

The Ghana Institute of Procurement and Supply (GIPS) is a central organization for Procurement professionals, practitioners, and students of the Procurement and Supply Chain Management profession.

We ensure the welfare, advancement, and high standard of integrity and probity in respect of the practice of the procurement and Supply profession in Ghana by maintaining and advancing the code of ethics and conduct among members.

The Ghana Institute of Procurement and Supply (GIPS) is an established professional body in Ghana that aims to pursue the objectives of the ‘Institute’ by:

Promoting for the public benefit: high levels of skill, knowledge, professional competence, and integrity on the part of procurement and supply chain practitioners in Ghana
Encouraging and fostering a favorable climate for entrepreneurial ethics and good governance practices
Advancing the interests of members of the Institute and to provide facilities, services, and benefits for them
Providing a central organization for professionals, practitioners, and students of the procurement and supply chain profession in Ghana, etc.

Our History

GIPS was born in August 1970 with the idea of forming the Ghana branch of the UK-based Institute of Buyers that would be renamed the Institute of Purchasing and Supply (IPS) and later the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (GIPS).

The vision of the founding fathers of GIPS was to gather working students of the professional course under one umbrella, build a community, harness the potential of the group, and promote the noble practice.

GIPS had its historic first meeting of members in August 1970 in a temporary setting on the 7th Floor of the then Ghana National Trading Corporation (GNTC) in Accra Central, near the Main Post Office. In 1991, at a GIPS monthly meeting, the idea to elect a management team to run the body was discussed, agreed upon, and implemented with the following individuals chosen to run the body:

Colonel Agbotui – President

Enoch Dzikunu – Vice President

Mr. Leonard Solomon – Secretary

Mrs. Agatha Oppong – Treasurer

Mr. Carl Lokko – Organising Secretary

Mission

To train, regulate, and promote ethical standards and professionalism among supply professionals.

Vision

The vision of GIPS is to champion value driven and ethical procurement.

Core Values

• Integrity • Objectivity • Professionalism

Aims & Objectives

The aims and objectives of the institute are:

To promote for the public benefit, high levels of skill, knowledge, professionalism, competence, and integrity on the part of procurement and supply chain practitioners and equivalent office holders, however described, of companies and other organizations are required.
To promote the study, research, and development of the law and practice of corporate governance and to publish, disseminate, or otherwise make available the useful results of such study or research.
To represent the interests of members and the business community to the government and the public.
To encourage and foster a climate favourable to entrepreneurial ethics, governance activities, and wealth creation.
To advance the interests of members of the Institute and to provide facilities, services, and benefits for them
To promote, encourage, and supervise the study of the Procurement and Supply profession in Ghana by maintaining the highest standards compatible with the principles of the profession,
To provide a central organization for practitioners and students of the Procurement and Supply Chain profession to ensure the welfare, advancement, and high standard of integrity and probity with respect to the practice of the Procurement and Supply chain profession in Ghana by maintaining and advancing a code of ethics and conduct among the members;
To pursue collaborative research and other activities concerned with the progress of knowledge in the Procurement and Supply Chain profession.
To foster and Promote the interchange of ideas and cooperation among its members.

More of What we do

GIPS extending Procurement & Supply Chain Education to Schools

In 1991, the GIPS leadership led conversations with polytechnics in Ghana to add procurement and supply chain education as part of a Higher National Diploma (HND). The curriculum has been successfully administered and taught in schools for the last three decades.

GIPS has been focused on regulating the activities of local professionals across the country.