ONSITE SEMINAR LISTING

CAPITAL EQUIPMENT PURCHASING

• Capital Equipment Purchasing: Big Risk, Big Dollars, and Big Results  (2-day)

CERTIFICATION/ACCREDITATION REVIEW (C.P.M. and A.P.P.)

• C.P.M. and A.P.P. Review Module 1 – Purchasing Process  (2-day)
• C.P.M. and A.P.P. Review Module 2 – Supply Environment  (2-day)
• C.P.M. Review Module 3 – Value Enhancement Strategies  (2-day)
• C.P.M. Review Module 4 – Management  (2-day)

COMMODITY MANAGEMENT

• Commodity Teams: Leveraging Value Across the Entire Organization  (2-day)

CORE FUNDAMENTALS

• Fundamentals of Purchasing: The Building Blocks of World-Class Professionalism  (2 or 3-day)
• Advanced Purchasing Techniques: Getting to the Next Level  (2-day)
• Supply Management: Tools, Techniques, and Strategies for Success  (3-day)

COST, PRICE AND FINANCE

• Advanced Cost Price Analysis  (2-day)
• Buyer Analysis of Financial Statements  (2-day)
• Conducting Cost and Pricing Analysis in Regulated and Private Procurement  (2-day)
• Cost Estimation: Applications and Understanding  (2-day)
• Driving Down Costs through Cost/Price Analysis  (2-day)
• Finance for the Supply Management Professional
• Reducing and Controlling Costs with Cost-Containment Strategies  (2-day)
• Supply Chain Cost Identification and Reduction Strategies  (2-day)

GENERAL MANAGEMENT

• Creative Problem Solving  (2-day)
• Effective Communication  (2-day)
• Effective Time Management  (2-day)
• Improved Communications and Listening  (2-day)
• Teaming Across the Supply Chain

GENERAL PURCHASING TOPICS

• Achieving Excellence in Supply Management  (2-day)
• Consortium Purchasing  (2-day)
• Ethics and Supplier Relations  (1-day)
• Lean Purchasing  (2-day)
• Measuring and Improving Purchasing Performance  (2-day)
• The Migration Toward Lean: Beyond Manufacturing  (2-day)

GLOBAL SUPPLY MANAGEMENT

• Applying Global Concepts to the International Marketplace
• Business and Legal Considerations in a Global Environment
• The People Side of Global Competency Skills for World-Class Supply Management  (2-day)

INVENTORY CONTROL

• Achieving and Maintaining Inventory Accuracy  (2-day)
• Basics of Inventory Control  (2-day)
• Inventory Management  (2-day)

LEGAL ISSUES AND CONTRACT WRITING

• Contract Writing Basics: What all the T's and C's Mean  (2-day)
• Contract Writing for Purchasing and Supply Management: Beyond the Basics  (2-day)
• Legal Considerations of Software Licensing and Other Technology-Related Agreements  (2-day)
• Performance-Based Statements of Work (SOW): Maximize Supplier Performance  (2-day)
• Purchasing and the Law: The Basics You Need to Succeed  (2 or 3-day)
• Understanding the Differences and Similarities of the UCC and the CISG as it Impacts Supply Chains in the Global Economy  (2-day)

MANUFACTURING / PRODUCTION

• Demand Flow Applications for Supply Chain and Manufacturing  (2-day)
• Lean Manufacturing Applications and Examples  (2-day)
• Supplier Capacity Evaluation  (2-day)

MATERIALS MANAGEMENT

• Fundamentals of Materials Management  (2-day)
• Purchasing and the Management of Materials  (2-day)

MRO MANAGEMENT

• Improving MRO Management  (2-day)
• Optimizing the MRO Supply Chain  (2-day)

NEGOTIATIONS

• Cross Cultural Business Negotiations  (2-day)
• Power Negotiations: Unlock Your Powers of Influence and Persuasion  (3-day)
• Power Negotiations I: Planning, Strategy, and Process  (2-day)
• Power Negotiations II: Unlock Your Powers of Persuasion  (2-day)

QUALITY CONTROL

• Six Sigma: A Process Improvement Tool for Supply Management Professionals  (2-day)

SERVICES PURCHASING

• Achieving Peak Performance when Purchasing Services  (2-day)
• Buying Basics for Nonmanufacturing and Service Organizations: Beyond Widgets and Production Lines  (2-day)
• Fundamentals of Public Purchasing  (2-day)
• Services Purchasing: An Advanced Application Workshop  (2-day)

STRATEGIC PURCHASING AND SUPPLY MANAGEMENT

• Best Practices in Procurement  (2-day)
• Developing a Framework of Excellence for Purchasing and Supply Management  (3-day)
• Effective Strategies: Building Purchasing Value for Your Organization  (3-day)
• Purchasing and Supply Management Skills: Developing Personal and Organizational Strength for a Changing Profession  (2-day)
• Supply Management Fitness Review: Developing Best Practices  (2-day)

SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT

• Achieving Value-Add through Supply Alliances  (2-day)
• How to Develop and Manage a Minority and Women Supplier Development Program  (1-day)
• Leading and Managing Supply Relationships  (2-day)

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

• Cost Effective Supply Chain Management  (2-day)
• Supply Chain Management: Defining and Determining Results  (2-day)

TECHNOLOGY IN PURCHASING AND SUPPLY MANAGEMENT

• Technology: Harnessing Its Power for Efficient Supply Management
• Understanding and Using RFID  (1-day)

TRANSPORTATION

• Transportation Management  (2-day)
• Logistics and Transportation Operations  (2-day)

VALUE ANALYSIS

• Value Analysis: Optimizing Outcomes  (2-day)

WORKSHOPS/SIMULATIONS

• The Business Side of Supply Management — An Applications Workshop  (2-day)
• P-Strat Supply Management Strategy Simulation: A Hands-On Approach to Creating and Using Supply Management Strategies  (2-day)
• Supply Chain Optimization: Putting It into Practice  (2-day)