This unique approach to improving your purchasing practice is only offered as an in-house workshop, and should include all key staff involved in your organisation's purchasing.

Opportunities for significant savings from the purchasing budget will be generated during this workshop through strategic planning, tactical management, operational process review, contract management and change management. This is a 'team event' designed to involve and empower all team members in setting and agreeing business objectives and then delivering results.

The tools used to achieve a successful outcome include:

'Action planning' to achieve commitment and determination
Identifying and developing key business objectives
Developing a team approach to the purchasing process
Identifying good practice appropriate to your organisation, benchmarking and identifying barriers that need to be overcome
Empowering the purchasing team to deliver business objectives
Developing a 'continuous improvement' culture across all boundaries

Who will benefit from this workshop?

Any organisation with more than ten people involved in the purchasing process.

Programme content

This workshop is a team-building event, facilitated by procurement experts following three key steps:

Strategic

Identifying the corporate issues

Selecting and training the team

Agree key goals

Operational

Implementing the Action Plan

Monitor and improve

Deliver agreed targets

Tactical

Developing the 'Action Plan'

Setting the goal and the standards

Identifying appropriate good practice and identifying 'barriers'

Creating a Critical Plan Map

The workshop will conclude with a review session that monitors performance and ensures continuous improvement at all levels.

Availability

Please contact Gordon Hinchcliffe on 01457 891 974 or email ghinchcliffe@cel.co.uk, to arrange this in-house workshop.