Effective Purchasing Skills

Many organizations have not yet reached the required maturity level to achieve their demanding targets. To improve this situation, the practical purchasing capabilities of their employees have to be constantly improved. This includes both soft and hard skills, which, in combination are the key to success for every purchasing organization. This course offers an overview of useful methods and tools that help to improve the processes and performance in procurement.

This program is designed to sharpen, strengthen and broaden participants’ three major purchasing skills; Purchasing Management, Tender Management and Effective Purchasing Negotiation.

Program Objectives:

• Learn and understand how to optimize processes in procurement
• Understand how to define purchasing strategies
• Obtain and learn tools and methods about supplier identification
• Learn how to manage tender
• Get to know methods for material cost analysis and inventory control
• Learn how to improve your negotiation skills