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IPS 1: INTRODUCTION TO PURCHASING & SUPPLY

Business Courses Brochure (PDF)

TARGET:

New recruits to the function or those wanting a refresher purchasing course.

COURSE CONTENT

  • Purchasing scope-objectives and development
  • Proactive purchasing techniques-changing roles
  • Major areas of concern in purchasing-quality, delivery, stock control, strategic acquisition costs
  • Purchasing policy-ethics
  • Outsourcing-market testing
  • Supplier evaluation and purchasing relationships
  • Purchasing interface-delighting the customer purchasing administration - quotations and orders
  • Legal process-when is the contract made
  • Basic negotiations-4 phased approach to purchasing
  • Cost reduction techniques in purchasing

SKILLS TRANSFER

  • Awareness of purchasing contribution to organisational profitability and strategies
  • Legal understanding
  • Resolving purchasing issues through the negotiating process
  • Effects of policy issues on purchasing performance
  • Cost reduction techniques and methods for purchasing

DATES AND TIMES

A 2 day course. Start 9.00, Lunch 1.00pm, Finish 5.00pm

Dates of courses

Venues for courses

02/03 Sep 2008

Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Blackburn

07/08 Nov 2008

Glendower Hotel, Lytham St Annes, Blackpool

12/13 Jan 2009

Holiday Inn, London

12/13 March 2009

Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Blackburn

9/10 May 2009

Holiday Inn, Sheffield

22/23 June 2009

Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Blackburn

18/19 July 2009

Glendower Hotel, Lytham St Annes, Blackpool

23/24 Aug 2009

Holiday Inn, Edinburgh

22/23 Sep 2009

Dunkenhalgh Hotel, Blackburn

NB – All the above courses can be run in house to suit the client – please contact us for details.

COURSE FEE
£730.00 plus VAT, includes refreshments, lunch and learning materials

D M Jones and Associates Ltd Purchasing business courses.

e-mail info@dmjonesassociates.co.uk T: 01200 424047 M: 07802 794946
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