Trueventus – Advanced Purchasing Skills, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

April 25, 2011 - PRLog -- In this ever-changing sourcing world, global sourcing opportunities gave a complicated twist and yet handful prospect in purchasing practice. It is essential for the senior management to identify how the purchasing process and the organization of purchasing has changed over the recent past and consider how this impacts on purchasing staff in terms of skills, roles and organization and apply the right tools & strategies to remain competitive while securing the trust of clients and suppliers.

As the focus on purchasing effectiveness and the expectations and demands of senior management increase there has never been such an acute awareness of the need to manage supplier resources to achieve maximum advantage.
In this course we will examine the key drivers of purchasing performance, identify the tools and techniques that support the delivery of competitive advantage and provide delegates with the skills to manage a purchasing team.

KEY BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
During the programme we will build a framework to target and manage purchasing and supplier resources. Specifically we will examine:

   * Building a purchasing strategy
   * Strategies for the different types of purchasing requirements
   * The problems with competitive tendering
   * Avoiding the pitfalls of competitive complacency
   * Setting budgets for the purchasing function
   * Measuring purchasing performance
   * Establishing the skills required of purchasing staff
   * Establishing a supplier management programme
   * Targeting resources to maximum effect
   * Benchmarking the purchasing function

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