Advanced Procurement Skills

Introduction

This intensive course ” Advanced Procurement Skills ” is aimed at improving the skills of the Procurement Professional and Buyers in organizations. The course examines the strategic importance of procurement within departments by using concepts and ideas in order to maximize the procurement department’s effectiveness and thereby reducing costs throughout the supply chain.

It is therefore imperative for Procurement to constantly deliver value to the organisation by delivering products and services that contributes to the well-being of the organisation. This is an important course for purchasing professionals who will return to their organisation with actual realistic plans on how to make considerable cost savings.

This course will feature:

Review critical supply strategies
Enhance skills required for good supplier relationships
Appraise business continuity and contingency planning for procurement
Study different approaches in negotiations
Learn how to rate a supplier.

Course Objectives

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

Develop critical supply strategies
Apply the concepts of activity based costing
Develop skills required for effective supplier relationships
Learn how to create rapport, build trust and establish credibility in a work group
Practice successful negotiations

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