Are you having trouble managing the "big picture" of purchasing and crystallizing the supply strategies within your organization? With a focus on strategy, planning, vision, organization, metrics and performance, this intensive executive briefing will address the specific ways your purchasing and supply management function can become a key contributor to your organization's bottom line. Strategic Planning from a Purchasing & Supply Management Perspective can make a difference in the way you strategically plan and promote the vision to achieve reality results.

Participants will learn to:

• Set goals and objectives that contribute to the bottom line and reduce costs effectively
• Formulate action plans that add value and eliminate non-value added activities
• Communicate results to top management, selling your department's contribution to the overall organizational goals through metrics and KPIs
• Understand what factors in the business environment affect purchasing decisions, and know how purchasing should monitor, appraise, and evaluate these factors through performance reports
• Manage the big picture effectively by ensuring clear communication internally between you, your senior management, and your internal customers, as well as externally with vendors, suppliers, and contractors

Recommended for:

• Purchasing, procurement, acquisition, contracting, supply management, or sourcing agents, supervisors, managers, directors, and vice-presidents
• Those who make decisions and develop strategies within the purchasing, contracting or supply management function