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Relevant Training Course / In-house Workshop Highlights:P01 Modern Procurement Practices P04 Supplier Assurance (Getting the best from suppliers) P05 Introduction to Procurement P06 Introduction to Managing the Supply of Materials Also see: |
Training Courses & Workshops to supportProcurement, Buying & Supplier ManagementOur Training Philosophy and Approach The following 6 training courses are available (linked to highlights below). They can be readily tailored to suit individual requirements for in-house workshops.
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P01 Modern Procurement Practices(1 day) (course schedules), (Request course details) Designed for:
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Procurement has changed, from a narrow purchasing role, into a multifaceted role including: Integrating relationships; Design; Buying; Planning; Inbound Logistics; Commercial Administration; Supplier Performance Management; and last but not least, managing the process.
This overview course, promoting best procurement practice, and taking each of these eight roles in turn, will show you how to provide a low cost means of providing a highly effective procurement process to really add value to support your business.
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P02 Supplier Development(1 day) (course schedules), (Request course details) Designed for:
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A supplier is bound to act in, what they perceive to be, their own best interest. The trick of supplier development is to persuade suppliers that providing you with a better service is in their best interests even if, to them, you are a small customer, and then to motivate them to invest to improve their service for the benefit of all of their customers.
This detailed course, promoting best practice, and written in conjunction with P03 Service Level Agreements and P04 Supplier Assurance (below), will enable you to get better service from suppliers and engage them in a development process which helps you and them (A Win-Win situation).
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P03 Service Level Agreements (SLA's)(1 day) (course schedules), (Request course details) Designed for:
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It is no use couching a service level agreement in legal jargon and if it lands with a thud on your desk it will only be read when something has gone wrong. Good service requires a commitment to the relationship, an agreed set of measurable objectives and a management process.
This detailed course, promoting best practice, and written in conjunction with P02 Supplier Development (above) and P04 Supplier Assurance (below), shows you how to:
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Note 1: This course includes a template and checklist for the construction of your SLA's. Note 2: When run as a workshop with both supplier and customer involved, we have found that not only is the relationship and communication improved, but the resultant agreement is a sound basis for excellent service!
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P04 Supplier Assurance (Getting the Best from Suppliers)(1 day) (course schedules), (Request course details) Designed for:
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Solving supplier problems can only ever be second best to not having problems in the first place.
This overview course, promoting the best practices of proactive rather than reactive procurement and written in conjunction with P02 Supplier Development and P03 Service Level Agreements (above), will help you to:
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Note: Includes our unique supplier audit starter pack to get you started quickly. Examples of course participant's feedback:
P05 Introduction to Procurement(3 days) (course schedules), (Request course details) Designed as:
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Supplier relationship management requires a spectrum of roles and processes ranging from researching potential sources to payment administration. But it also includes being a good supplier of goods and services and maintaining good relationships with internal consumers of these resources.
This detailed introductory course, is aimed at all procurement / purchasing practitioners and staff new to the role, who are primarily purchasing and managing the supply of services and in a conventional buying role rather than purchasing and managing materials. (Contains complementary content to P06 Introduction to Managing the Supply of Materials (Foundation Course) below). It will help you to:
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P06 Introduction to Managing the Supply of Materials(2 days) (course schedules), (Request course details) Designed as:
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Everyone else's problems and delays, end up in the buying office. The Purchasing department are at the cusp of where reality meets the aspirations of product and project delivery. This course aims to change the question asked by purchasing people of suppliers from "when is the earliest you can get it here" to "lets discuss an holistic way that we (us and our suppliers) can mutually help our businesses", and allow you time to negotiate.
This detailed introductory course, is aimed at all procurement practitioners and staff new to the role , and expeditors, who are primarily purchasing and managing the supply of materials rather than purchasing and managing services. (Contains complementary content to P05 Introduction to Procurement above) If your buying office activity is currently dominated by: paperwork; orders within lead-time; shortages / expediting; complaints and invoice queries, this course will show you how to avoid these problems and create a proactive, high performance, procurement service to your internal customers, encompassing an introduction to all of the 8 procurement roles needed for efficient and effective procurement of materials, namely:
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Note: Contains introductory content from a number of our courses.
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