Purchasing Management Programme

Purchasing Management Programme masters purchasing tools for selecting and evaluating the best suppliers. You will structure your company's needs, implement a productivity plan and cost reduction plan, construct key indicators to evaluate and measure results.

Purchasing techniques and methodologies.

• Needs analysis: expressing needs and specifications, risks/opportunities, purchaser involvement in the decision making process, data bases, compiling a budget.
• Market analysis: the upstream market, direct market, competitive purchasing, process, interveners, risks, speculations, typology of markets.
• Purchasing policies and warehouse management.Information systems linked to the purchasing process. E-procurement.
• Sourcing: finding suppliers, selection mechanisms, supplier certification procedure, annual evaluation systems, supplier quality assurance.
• Administration of supplier portfolio: portfolio practical analysis case, portfolio reduction,(methodology, advantages, drawbacks).
• Analysis of costs and productivity in purchasing: value analysis, cost of composition, optimisation plans, cost drivers, median profits.
• Negotiation: techniques, practical cases and simulation.
• Strategic management of purchasing. The present day customer-supplier relationship.