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Purchasing Management

Date: Monday, March 12, 2012
Time: 17:30

Place: EADA, C/Aragón, 204

Type: Seminar

EADAAlumni and Corporate Business member fees: 490€

The control of cost and reliability is key to business success. Proper management of purchasing, carried out professionally is an imperative to make companies more competitive.

As a buyer you have to be aware of and have access to adequate tools that allow you to get the best result for the operating account.

Programme

The purchasing function

Alignment of purchasing strategy with corporate strategy.
The changing role of purchasing and supply.
Organizational structures of the purchasing function.
Benchmarking of the purchasing function.
Techniques for generating forecasts, procurement, inventory management.

Supplier- buyer relationships

Development of strategy to the category level - Kraljic matrix.
Relational versus transactional relationships.
Selection and evaluation of suppliers.
Development of suppliers.
The supplier’s role in the development of new products / services.

Negotiation

The EADA model: people, strategies and techniques.
Preparation of the negotiations.
Communication and emotions.
Interest, and conflict management positions.

Supply Chain Management

Strategic, tactical and operational processes of supply chain management and purchasing.
Coordination and collaboration in the supply chain.
Internal integration.
Sales & Operations Planning.

Speakers

Jose Manuel Murcia, Industrial Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. General Management Programme, IESE. Ahold Logistics Manager (North Zone). Professor of operations: EADA.

Ed Weenk, Bachelor of Business Studies majoring in logistics, also holds a graduate degree in Supply Chain from the Eindhoven Technical University and an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management (Netherlands). He has extensive experience in project management and logistics distribution having worked for several years for the logistics operator DHL / Danzas Solutions. Ed currently works as an independent consultant and associate professor at EADA for the Supply Chain discipline.

Franc Ponti, Bachelor of Arts and Master in Knowledge Society from UOC university where he is currently preparing his doctoral thesis. A degree in Business Psychology and General management(PDG) from EADA. Franc has been a professor in the Department of People Management since the mid-nineties, specializing in the area of creativity and innovation. He lectures in schools and universities around the world and is the author of a variety of books, his latest publications are "Passion for Innovation", "Innovacción" and "If it works, change it." He is Director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Centre at EADA.