Advanced Purchasing & Supply
Management Techniques
Successful
purchasing depends on good decisions, and good decisions result from
good management techniques. Advanced Purchasing & Supply Management
Techniques will address those critical management concerns, providing
you with vital information and the practical techniques needed to
enhance the purchasing function's contribution to your organization's
bottom line. The changing procurement and physical supply environment
requires that firms apply the most up-to-date procedures available to
improve productivity and effectiveness. Learning the strategic and
tactical skills offered in this seminar can make a difference in the way
you plan and execute the purchasing function within your organization.
Participants will learn to:
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Identify
business environment factors that affect purchasing decisions and
know how purchasing should monitor, appraise, and evaluate these
factors
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Apply the latest
business, supply management, and materials management strategies,
practices, systems, and organizational structures to improve
productivity and effectiveness in your organization
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Prepare plans
and set goals and objectives for contribution to the bottom line
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Manage the big
picture effectively through inter-departmental coordination in a
strategic purchasing environment
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Decide what
sourcing strategies and expectations can be used to enhance supplier
quality and productivity and to optimize the supply base
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Communicate
results to top management, selling purchasing's contribution to
overall organizational goals
Recommended for:
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Purchasing,
procurement, supply management, or materials management agents,
supervisors, managers, directors, and vice-presidents
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Those who make
decisions and develop strategies within the purchasing or supply
management function
Those who have
mastered the fundamentals of purchasing and are ready to explore
refinements
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