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      Event Type

      Training

       

      Industry

      Purchasing and Supply Chain

       

      Date

      22 Jul - 23 Jul 09

       

      Venue

      Prince Hotel & Residence Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

       

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Strategic Planing For Purchasing Managers
Purchasing and Supply Chain | Training | 22 Jul 09 - 23 Jul 09
Prince Hotel & Residence Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Summer Courses for Purchasing Managers

 

Benefit Of Attending
 
Upon completion of this seminar, participants will know:
  • Stages to World Class
  • Setting The Direction For WorldClass Supply Management
  • The Importance of Performing Purchasing Gap Analysis.
  • Over 100 Best Practices In Strategically Focused Sourcing Operations
  • Key Performance Measurements
  • How To Develop A Purchasing Strategic Plan
  • Best Practices In Supplier Relations And Obtaining Supplier Performance
 
Course outline
 
Strategic Planning for Purchasing Managers
Seminar Outline (For 2 day program)
Setting the Direction for World Class Purchasing
It is critical to establish the importance of the function and the need for it to emerge as a core competency of the organization.
  • Winning And Purchasing As A Core Competency
  • 4 Stages To World Class
  • Change And Becoming More Strategic
  • The Purchasing Mission & Vision Statement
  • Total Cost Of Ownership The Purchasing Gap Analysis
  • Developing the Strategic Plan
 
Purchasing Skill Sets
Good managers know that Purchasing Departments cannot perform better than their people and that world class performance in procurement activities requires highly trained competent
professionals with high ethical standards.
  • Purchasing Personnel Required Skill Sets
  • Job Descriptions of the Future
  • Skill Set Assessment
  • Training Programs
  • Professionalism
  • Purchasing Ethics
  • Best Practices in Negotiations
 
Relations With Other Functions
Integrating with other functions and providing the organization with clear high value added activities is essential for supply management to reach its strategic potential.
  • How Do Other Functions View Purchasing
  • Developing And Maintaining A Customer Focus
  • Internal Customer Survey
  • Showing Purchasing’s Impact On The Bottom Line
  • How Does Senior Management Measure Purchasing
  • Purchasing Accountability
  • Measuring Purchasing Performance With Key Performance Indicators
 
Strategic Sourcing
Purchasing personnel must move from the tactical focus of most purchasing operations to a much more strategic focus that brings continuous improvement to the bottom line of the
organization.
  • Time Spent On Various Tasks
  • Commodity Coding
  • Developing Spend Profiles
  • ABC Analysis
  • Benchmarking
  • Risk Analysis
  • Commodity/Service Planning
  • Developing A Company Purchase Price Index
 
Advancing Supplier Relationships
An organization can perform no better than its suppliers so applying the best practices in supplier selection, performance measurement, and developing and maintaining good supplier
relationships is critical to the success of any organization.
  • Supplier Categories
  • Strategic Alliances
  • Supplier Performance Measurement
  • Supplier Qualification And Supplier Recognition
  • Letting The Supplier Measure You
  • Supplier Collaboration
 
Degree of Automation
Worldclass
organization are not asking if they need to improve their process but only how fast can they improve them.
  • Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)
  • Developing An Effective Electronic Procurement Strategy
  • Process Mapping To Eliminate Low Value Activities
  • Reengineering Processes
 
Best Practices in Procurement Process
There are many best practices that enable procurement groups to demonstrate that they can be and are much more than just order placers
  • RFQs/RFPs/Tenders and Statement Of Work
  • Performance Based Service Contracts
  • LongTerm Agreements
  • Model Agreements And Check Lists
  • Outsourcing
  • Global Sourcing
  • Inventory Reduction Programs
  • Supplier Reduction Programs
  • Supply Chain Management
 
Making Sure We Obtained Best Pricing
High performing procurement departments can proudly point to the fact that the best practices being applied are resulting in the lowest Total Cost of Ownership for their organization.
  • Price And Cost Analysis
  • Supplier’s Cost And Pricing Data
  • Developing “Should Cost”
  • Cost Reduction Initiatives
  • Savings Reporting
 
 

 



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