Course : Better Managing Your Purchases

Better Managing Your Purchases

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Negotiation is a crucial phase in the purchasing process, which the purchaser is in charge of. How do you properly prepare for negotiations, better identify your supplier and its offerings, spot tools for negotiation, and define objectives and a strategy consistent with those of your company? By carefully balancing technical knowledge and communication to achieve a successful purchasing deal. This training will help you acquire best practices for doing so.


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Price : 1530 CHF E.T.
  2d - 14h00




Negotiation is a crucial phase in the purchasing process, which the purchaser is in charge of. How do you properly prepare for negotiations, better identify your supplier and its offerings, spot tools for negotiation, and define objectives and a strategy consistent with those of your company? By carefully balancing technical knowledge and communication to achieve a successful purchasing deal. This training will help you acquire best practices for doing so.

Intended audience
Buyers, purchasing or business negotiators, purchasing managers, procurement.

Prerequisites
No particular knowledge.

Course schedule

Negotiation and procurement process

  • The 5 steps of purchasing process : define business needs, develop procurement strategy, evaluate and select suppliers,
  • Identify the business requirement : standard or specific procurement, strategic purchases… and the consequences on negot

Fundamentals on purchasing negotiation

  • Presentation of the negotiations steps
  • Stakes and targets
  • The different actors and their relationships
  • The main families of strategies
Exercise
Each participant gives a briefing about a real negotiating situation. The other participants and the trainer help preparing the session.

Method for successful negotiations

  • Check list for preparation : What is a stake?, Outline and prioritize objectives, Evaluate the balance of power, Analyse
  • • Lead and manage the negotiation Order of presentation of clauses Understand the communication process: verbal and
  • Close the deal : Moments and signs to conclude, Formalize an agreement, Open to the future
Case study
Different cases will be prepared with the methodology and tools discovered and performed. During the debriefing session, the trainer will focus en behavioral aspects

Identify your personal communication profile for better negotiations

  • The different types of negotiators, Identify your own style
  • Identify your personal communication profile: DISC assessment, VAK model
  • Adapt your communication to the suppliers’ profiles
  • Develop assertive behaviour
Exercise
Behavioral pattern to discover personal communication profile


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Dates and locations
From 16 to 17 May 2024 *
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From 8 to 9 July 2024
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From 14 to 15 October 2024
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