Improving your Buying Skills
Details
- The course will demonstrate how you can improve efficiency through improved buying.
- Throughout much of the learning process you will use your own organizational knowledge and apply it to a range of scenarios.
- Participants will gain a broader understanding of the buyer’s contribution to the organization’s bottom line through product and performance improvement, legal and regulatory considerations.
- They will also learn how to analyze and interpret pricing models and build collaborative relationships with suppliers with the long-term aim of continuous improvement. Participants will also learn how to negotiate and take part in a negotiating situation
Outline
- The purchasing cycle
- Working across the organization and stakeholder management
- Sourcing the market and source planning
- Supplier appraisal process
- Buying methods such as tenders and quotations
- PPCA – purchasing prices cost analysis
- Negotiation strategies, persuasion methods and tactics
- The fundamentals of contract law
- Negotiation guidelines
- Managing supplier performance
- Continuous improvement
FOR WHOM:
Stores, Purchasing and Logistics Personnel in the Public and Private Sectors.
TRAINING METHODOLOGY
The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.
Speaker/s
Special Offer
Schedules
Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri | 10:00 AM — 04:00 PM |
No. of Days: | 4 |
Alpha Partners is a reputable firm of Training and Management Consultants with many years of corporate training experience in Finance, Accounting, Auditing, Banking, Management, Information Technology, Oil and Gas Sector, Security, Engineering, Public Relations, Secretarial Studies, Leadership, Marketing and other fields of human endeavour.
We are one of the leading players in the profession. Our firm, a multi-disciplinary one with highly talented, experienced and dedicated partners and staff who have experiences in different facets of working life was established in 1996 and has branches in Lagos, Enugu and Awka.
We offer a wide range of professional services, which covers audits, accounting, finance, taxation, ICT, security, engineering, insurance, human resources management, secretarial and consultancy services in all ramifications.
Our numerous clients attest to the high quality services we offer which contribute in no small measure in ensuring sound and efficient management of their resources.