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Purchasing Management
Reducing Costs Through Cost-Price Analysis
As organizations struggle with the rapid shift in technology and markets, purchasing professionals are finding themselves needing new and better skills, a better understanding of the cost structure of new and existing products and services and the ability to deal with new and different suppliers and technology.
Furthermore, management is viewing purchasing as a cost center and asking its buyers to reduce costs like never before. Today's purchasing professionals must find effective ways of reducing costs, and above all, understand the key role purchasing plays as a profit center-guiding their organizations successfully through continuing turbulent times.
Participants Will Learn:
- How uncovering deficiencies in supplier pricing practices can produce significant cost savings
- What the key cost drivers are and how to use them in negotiations
- Three new approaches to use in looking at cost and price
- How a knowledge of direct and indirect costs can uncover major cost savings opportunities
- Ways in which using the internet can identify hidden costs
Who Should Attend:
Purchasing and supply managers, buyers looking to gain a deeper insight into cost and price analysis and Managers responsible
for the Purchasing function.
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Instructor: Ken Rowe, former buyer and director of purchasing, developer of numerous tools for improving purchasing effectiveness, prominent consultant and trainer.
Schedule:
- Monday-Tuesday, November 3-4, 2008 (Course #097EJA) register
Indianapolis, IN - Wednesday-Thursday, December 9-10, 2009 (Course #107FJB register
Louisville, KY
Fee: $995 (includes instruction, course manual, certificate of completion, parking, and refreshment breaks)