Course Details
Course Outline
5 days course
Strategic Purchasing and Measuring Performance
- Strategic Purchasing
- Collaborative & Competitive Strategies
- Supplier Relationship Management / Supply Positioning.
- Measuring Purchasing Performance
- Why Measure?
- What should be Measured?
- Quantitative & Qualitative Measures
- Use of Performance Measures
- Vendor Rating.
Risk Management and Cost analysis
- Risk Management / Assessing Risk Significance
- The Prevention, Transfer, Reduction and Financing of Risk
- Supplier Selection & Evaluation
- Developing a Supplier Profile
- Vendor Assessment Questionnaires
- Third Party Assessment.
- Cost Analysis
- Obtaining Cost Breakdowns
- Managing Price Movements
Corporate Social Responsibility & Environmental Purchasing
- Environmental Management Systems / Sustainability /
- Eco Labelling / ISO14001 / EMAS /
- Corporate Social Responsibility /
- SA 8000 (Social Accountability Standard).
Negotiation Skills
- Defining Negotiation
- Negotiation Preparation
- Setting Objectives & Targets /
- Tactics / Negotiation Techniques
- Assertive Body Language.
Purchasing Capital Equipment
- Special Nature of Capital Purchases
- Importance of Team Approach
- Managing Part & Stage Payments
- Spares & Consumables
- Payment & Performance Guarantees.
