The Complete Course on
Contracts & Purchasing Management

The Complete Course on Contracts & Purchasing Management is designed to help contracts and procurement professionals navigate the growing complexity of commercial and business relationships. It is essential for all business professionals to understand how and why contracts allocate risk among the parties involved and the potential consequences of failing to manage that risk.

In today's business environment, companies require procurement improvements to align with their strategic goals. This course on Contracts & Purchasing Management emphasizes best practices in procurement and focuses on critical areas such as compliance, creativity, and supply market knowledge. It also explains how to measure the contributions of purchasing and contracts, ensuring that these key functions are recognized as core competencies.

This training course will feature:

• An understanding of how contracts control business relationships of all kinds
• Risk allocation in contract management; protecting your company’s interests
• An understanding of international contracting in the English language
• Selection and application of contract management & procurement strategies
• Managing suppliers to obtain best in class results

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

• Improve their understanding of the role of contracts within a business
• Develop more confidence in dealing with contracting issues
• Understand how purchasing & contract strategies can be developed to improve commercial outcomes
• Learn how to develop high performance purchasing organizations
• Show analytics for use to guide procurement and contract strategies

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Procurement and Contracts Personnel
• Engineering, Facilities, Finance and Maintenance Personnel
• Personnel involved in the planning and management of tender process
• Contract Administrators, Contract Professionals and Project Coordinators
• Specifiers, Buyers, Purchasing Professionals and Procurement Officers
• Contracts Managers and Project Managers

The Complete Course on Contracts & Purchasing Management will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. The training course is highly interactive and includes high levels of participant discussion, group interaction, delegate group exercises and case studies. Materials include existing contemporary English language contracts in many jurisdictions. Delegates will be encouraged to raise their own issues and problems faced within their industry or organisations for discussion on a confidential basis.