The Complete Course on Purchasing and Inventory Management

Date Format Fees  
06 Feb - 09 Feb, 2024 Classroom ₦250,000 Register
13 Aug - 16 Aug, 2024 Classroom ₦250,000 Register
06 Feb - 09 Feb, 2024 Classroom ₦250,000 Register

Event Details

  • Develop strategic purchasing plans & discuss how to improve internal customer service
  • Explore many ways of reporting key performance indicators (KPIs)
  • Understand the most important competencies for purchasing personnel
  • Understand the importance of inventory & the role it plays in the profitability of the company
  • Apply best methods to optimize the investment in inventory

 

CONTENT

The 1st Steps to Becoming World Class

  • Stages to World Class Purchasing
  • How Purchasing is viewed today
  • Strategic Sourcing
  • Developing Spend Profiles and the ABC Analysis
  • New Job Descriptions for Purchasing of the future
  • Purchasing Personnel Required Skill Sets

 

Evaluating Your Own Operation

  • What are Best Practices
  • Purchasing Gap Analysis
  • Vision and Mission for Purchasing
  • Developing the Purchasing Department Strategic Plan
  • Developing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) For Procurement
  • Developing A Company Purchase Price Index

 

Supplier Management Approaches

  • Supplier Classification System
  • Supplier Qualification Methods
  • Supplier Performance Metrics
  • Apply Performance criteria to Purchasing Decisions
  • Process Mapping To Eliminate Low Value Activities
  • Applying E-Procurement business process

 

Improving the Image of Procurement

  • Global Sourcing
  • International Labor Rates Comparison
  • Developing and Maintaining a Customer Focus
  • Basic Issues In Corruption And Fraud Prevention
  • Increasing The Level of Procurement Professionalism
  • Keeping Current in the profession
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 Inventory in the Value Chain

  • The purpose of inventory in the value chain
  • Classification of inventory
  • Procedure for eliminating obsolete inventory
  • Pareto Law in identifying product Classification
  • Location of inventory
  • Using Economic Order Quantity on managing inventory order levels

 

Inventory Recording

  • Period stock take
  • Cycle counting
  • Perpetual recording
  • Utilizing Bar-cades to manage inventory and movements
  • The use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) for recording inventory movement
  • Inventory accounting

 

Performance Measurement

  • Stock turnover rate
  • Customer service
  • Cost of operations
  • Measuring the effectiveness of your system
  • How to use the measurements  
  • Class exercise on selective inventory management

 

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.

 

  • Venue

    Alpha Partners Professional Training Conference Centre. 200, Muritala Mohammed Way (3rd Floor), Yaba Lagos.

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