Advanced Purchasing Management Course

Becoming World Class
• Stages To World Class Purchasing
• How Purchasing is viewed today
• Strategic Sourcing
• Developing Spend Profiles and the ABC Analysis
• New Job Descriptions For Purchasing of the future
• Purchasing Personnel Required Skill Sets

Evaluating Your Own Operation
• What are Best Practices
• Purchasing Gap Analysis
• Vision and Mission for Purchasing
• Developing The Purchasing Department Strategic Plan
• Developing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) For Procurement
• Developing A Company Purchase Price Index

Continuous Improvement and How to Get It
• Cost Reduction Initiatives
• Methods of Cost Containment
• Waste In The Supply Chain
• Breaking Down The Elements Of Supplier Cost
• Commodity/Service Strategic Planning
• Resisting Price Increases

Supplier Management Approaches
• Supplier Classification System
• Supplier Qualification Methods
• Supplier Performance Metrics
• Apply Performance criteria to Purchasing Decisions
• Process Mapping To Eliminate Low Value Activities
• Applying e-Procurement business process

Improving the Image of Procurement
• Global Sourcing
• International Labor Rates Comparison
• Developing and Maintaining a Customer Focus
• Basic Issues In Corruption And Fraud Prevention
• Increasing The Level of Procurement Professionalism
• Keeping Current in the profession

FOR WHOM:
Stores, Purchasing and Logistics Personnel in the Public and Private Sectors.