·        Senior, Mid-level and Junior Managers

·        Supervisory Staff

·        Project Managers

·        Team Leaders

·        Staff needing to hone their administrative skills

The course allows delegates to update their knowledge and learn new or improved techniques for a variety of formal work settings.

On completing the course, delegates will be able to –

·        Effective Purchasing Portfolio Management

·        Relating Strategic Purchasing to Supply Chain Process Models

·        Business Environmental Factors and Purchasing Structures

·        Purchasing as a Functional Department

·        Cross-Functional Purchasing; Cross-Organisational Teams

·        Centralised vs Decentralized Purchasing

·        The Sequence and Impact of Purchasing Procedures

·        A Review of Purchasing and Procurement Technology

·        Purchasing Procedures for Low-Value Purchases

·        Purchasing Ethics

·        Inventory, Logistics and Supply Chain Management

·        Inventory Classifications

·        Scope and Aims of Inventory Management

·        Contemporary Tools for Inventory Management

·        The Economics of Inventory

·        Inventory Performance Measures

·        Safety Stocks and Service Levels

·        Forecasting Demand Accurately

·        Different Approaches (and Tools) for Matching Supply with Demand

·        Know Your Suppliers and Their Business

·        Developing Suppliers and Supplier Relationships

·        Communicating Specifications

·        Standardisation, and Quality Inspection

·        Outsourcing Issues

·        Factors to be Considered when Buying Capital Equipment

·        Monitoring and Controlling the Acquisition of Capital Equipment

·        New versus Used Equipment; Selecting Suppliers of Capital Equipment

·        Evaluating Capital Equipment; Assessing Capital Procurement Options

·        The Basics of Service Level Agreements

·        Crafting Effective Service Level Agreements

·        Incoterms; Transport Systems, Costs and Considerations

·        Freight Agents; Methods of Payment

·        Countertrade; The True Cost of Buying Overseas

·        Key Factors in Successful Overseas Purchasing

·        Purchasing Performance Evaluation

·        Benchmarking – Historical, Best-of-Breed and Comparative

·        Balanced Scorecard Approach to Evaluating Purchasing Performance