Managing purchasing

Managing purchasing - 3 day training course

When complexities of the bigger picture become clouded in a tough business environment what would you give for a range of new concepts, practical ideas and processes to get ahead? This 3 day intensive course covers a broad range of managing purchasing issues designed to help purchasing managers and team leaders deliver key skills to keep the business bang on track.

The course will equip you to employ and adapt key concepts and processes to the benefit of your organisation. You will spend a significant amount of time on interactive case studies, testing the concepts to which you are introduced.

During this intensive 3-day course you will come to understand in depth the benefits of working through the strategic supply-planning model and experience the practical problems and issues that arise out of a close-to-real-life case study.

You will observe the fluidity of market situations and the demands they make and learn to understand sellers' objectives throughout the life of a relationship.

You will recognise the importance of risk identification and of creating a purchasing plan.

You'll also gain understanding of the impact of sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) on purchasing processes and relationships and the challenge of taking e-purchasing forward. And you will fully appreciate the issues involved in shaping, managing and motivating your purchasing team.

Benefits of attending:
You will be more able to manage and develop opportunities for improvement with people inside and outside your organisation in a way that increased value is delivered from the supply market.

The Managing purchasing training course is an essential course for managers or team leaders responsible for delivering the benefits of professional purchasing to organisations operating in difficult and changing business environments.

This Managing purchasing training course is designed to cover objectives; briefing; and setting the scene, including:

• purchasing’s mission and its contribution to an organisation
• sustainability, corporate social responsibility  and ethics
• managing purchasing within the umbrella of sustainability
• the triple bottom line
• trade offs
• the strategic supply planning model
• developing strategies to manage the supply base
• major case study based on a fictional supply base
• relationship management and development – the relationship spectrum
• gaining an understanding of how suppliers view, select and prioritise purchasing organisations
• case study allowing participants to examine a purchasing organisation from a sellers viewpoint
• the market management matrix – a complex sixteen option relationship management tool
• case study assessing aspects of the market management matrix
• the relationship life cycle and the Kettering Model
• risk management – an investigation into the risks faced by purchasing organisations
• upstream emphasis – identifying and emphasising purchasing processes that add value and eliminating others that add cost
• the purchasing plan – a sample planning tool
• stakeholder analysis leading to customer based sourcing objectives
• supplier development
• relationship development
• the potential of e-purchasing
• the dynamics of managing a purchasing team – major case study leading to discussion on shaping and motivating a team

The cost of this Managing purchasing training course is:

£1112 + VAT CIPS members
£1236 + VAT non-members

Fee includes:

• Comprehensive course materials to support new skills and knowledge back in the workplace
• Restaurant lunch, morning and afternoon refreshments.