Purchasing is essential to the success of modern organisations, and successful organisations need highly trained and effective procurement professionals. Buying teams need to balance the requirement for high quality materials and services with the lowest prices and low administrative costs, and work with other departments and functions. The role of purchasing personnel has evolved from buyers to negotiators and, most significantly, from transactional order placers to strategic business partners. Therefore, the purchasing personnel are of paramount importance in deciding suppliers, negotiating with suppliers, managing supplier relationships and overseeing the efficient inventory flow into the supply chain.
PROCLAD Academy’s Purchasing Management, Tendering & Supplier Selection training course is intended to provide participants with an understanding of the principles of purchasing, tendering and supplier selection processes. Participants will learn how to evaluate procedures and make needed changes to methods to improve customer service whilst achieving significant reductions in inventories, eliminate wasteful costs, avoid internal system problems that limit performance, and obtain added value for money.
The key features of PROCLAD Academy’s Purchasing Management, Tendering & Supplier Selection training course are:
- Identify and reduce procurement risk through development of an action plan
- Enable improved performance from existing suppliers through evaluation
- Understand and strengthen supply chain
- Improve operating relationships within the organisation
- Award contracts on the basis of measured performance/criteria
- Provide a working understanding of the Negotiation process