The Complete Course on Purchasing Management

An Intensive 5-day Training Course

The Complete Course on Purchasing Management

Purchasing Management: A to Z of Best Practices

UPCOMING SESSIONS

Classroom sessions
DateVenueFee
26-30 May 2025London - UK$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
30 Jun-04 Jul 2025Dubai - UAE$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
28 Jul-01 Aug 2025London - UK$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
25-29 Aug 2025Dubai - UAE$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
03-07 Nov 2025Dubai - UAE$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
30 Mar-03 Apr 2026Dubai - UAE$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
29 Jun-03 Jul 2026London - UK$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
02-06 Nov 2026Dubai - UAE$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
28 Dec 2026-01 Jan 2027Dubai - UAE$5,950RESERVE A SEAT

Training Course Overview

The Complete Course on Purchasing Management equips you with the skills needed to lead a procurement team to exceptional performance. It focuses on addressing the common performance gaps that must be filled to ensure Purchasing Management can drive continuous improvements, enabling organizations to achieve their strategic goals.

The course promotes a proactive approach to procurement activities, emphasizing the importance of focusing on the right tasks that showcase the creativity, flexibility, and market knowledge within the Purchasing function. It also highlights how to measure and demonstrate the contributions of purchasing to the organization, elevating this vital function to a core organizational competency.

This training course will feature:

  • The skills and attributes of world class Purchasing Personnel
  • Measuring leading performance
  • Selection and application of management strategies
  • Understanding the changing International Best Practices
  • Managing supplier to obtain best in class results

Training Course Objectives

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

  • Learn how to develop high performance purchasing organizations
  • Develop strategic purchasing plans & discuss how to improve internal customer service
  • Appreciate and see the analytics that guide procurement strategies
  • Explore many ways of reporting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
  • Understand the most important competencies for purchasing personnel

Designed for

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

  • Procurement and Contracts personnel
  • Purchasing, Contract Administration, Projects personnel
  • Engineering, Facilities, Finance, and Maintenance Personnel
  • Personnel involved in the planning and management of tender process
  • Leaders in the acquisition of materials, equipment and services

Learning Methods

This The Complete Course on 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 will prompt delegates to reflect on their current practices and goals.  The tutor will guide and facilitate learning using a wide range of methods including direct input, discussions, case studies and exercises in groups and pairs.

The Course Outline

Day One: The 1st Steps to Becoming World Class
  • Stages to World Class Purchasing
  • How Purchasing is viewed today
  • Strategic Sourcing
  • Developing Spend Profiles and the ABC Analysis
  • New Job Descriptions for Purchasing of the future
  • Purchasing Personnel Required Skill Sets
Day Two: Evaluating Your Own Operation
  • What are Best Practices
  • Purchasing Gap Analysis
  • Vision and Mission for Purchasing
  • Developing the Purchasing Department Strategic Plan
  • Developing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Procurement
  • Developing a Company Purchase Price Index
Day Three: Continuous Improvement and How to Get It
  • Cost Reduction Initiatives
  • Methods of Cost Containment
  • Waste in the Supply Chain
  • Breaking Down the Elements of Supplier Cost
  • Commodity/Service Strategic Planning
  • Resisting Price Increases
Day Four: Supplier Management Approaches
  • Supplier Classification System
  • Supplier Qualification Methods
  • Supplier Performance Metrics
  • Apply Performance criteria to Purchasing Decisions
  • Process Mapping To Eliminate Low Value Activities
  • Applying eProcurement business process
Day Five: Improving the Image of Procurement
  • Global Sourcing
  • International Labor Rates Comparison
  • Developing and Maintaining a Customer Focus
  • Basic Issues in Corruption And Fraud Prevention
  • Increasing the Level of Procurement Professionalism
  • Keeping Current in the profession

The Certificate

  • Anderson Certificate of Completion will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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