ABOUT THE COURSE
Who should attend?
- Purchasing executives and professional staff from supply chain management, logistics and inventory planning and control
- General managers wanting to understand the procurement function
- Project managers involved in plant and equipment development projects
- Engineering planners working with complex maintenance material requirements
- Quality managers seeking to understand how suppliers are selected
By the end of the course delegates will be able to:
- Set up and manage a procurement activity
- Select suppliers using appropriate evaluation methods and criteria
- Measure supplier performance
- Identify ways to increase procurement effectiveness and efficiency
- Work with user departments to improve procurement within the organisation
- Manage supply-side risk using contractual methods
- Manage suppliers against contractual requirements
- Conduct supplier performance review meetings
