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As a central and strategic role within companies, the purchasing function must be managed by professional buyers whose skills are recognized and shared with all company departments. As a high value-added function, purchasing is at the heart of the company's decisions and challenges. Knowing how to identify your suppliers' levers for improvement means getting to know them well, so as to establish a genuine partnership if the context so requires.
Objectives
This training course will enable participants to gain a better understanding of the purchasing function, the role of the buyer, interactions with other company departments and supplier management, in order to optimize all purchasing costs. Measuring the performance of the purchasing department, combined with pragmatic methods, will give trainees a comprehensive overview of the function, and enable them to leave with a wealth of practical tools.
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MODULE 1: BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE PURCHASING FUNCTION
- Purchasing typology
- The central and strategic role of purchasing in the company
- Make or Buy analysis
MODULE 2: THE PURCHASING PROCESS
- How to write an RFI
- How to draw up an invitation to tender
- Selecting suppliers - Multi-criteria scoring
- Contracts and awards
- Supplier performance evaluation
- Steering dashboards
MODULE 3: BEING A BUYER
- Buyer's roles and responsibilities
- Supplier panel analysis
- Purchasing cost calculation method - TCO
- Negotiation techniques
- Drafting CGAs
- Methods for optimizing purchasing costs
- Structuring a cost-cutting approach
MODULE 4: ORGANIZING A PURCHASING DEPARTMENT
- Auditing a purchasing department
- Best practices for an effective and efficient purchasing department
- Structuring your purchasing process with a view to ISO certification
- Setting up a purchasing policy
