Description

The performance of large companies is directly correlated to that of their purchasing function. Implementing and developing best purchasing practices are therefore a guarantee of success. After taking up the position, the buyer is expected to be operational very quickly and thus be able to generate lasting profits. This purchasing training allows you to decode and master the tools and practices of operational excellence in responsible purchasing. Faced with very concrete purchasing situations, you will train yourself in the efficient management of a purchasing category while mastering the stages of the process and using the associated tools.

Who is this training for ?

For whom ?

Any person associated with purchasing management.

Prerequisites

None

Training objectives

Define purchasing performance and measure their impact

Identify and choose the most relevant indicators

Set up your purchasing dashboards to measure performance

Training program

• Identify dashboard issues
  • - The defining elements: performance, dashboards and indicators
  • - The triangle and square of performance
  • - The different levels of dashboards of the function purchasing
  • - The contributions of dashboards
• Design and choose purchasing indicators and dashboards
  • - Typologies of indicators.
  • - The method of developing and selecting indicators.
  • - The indicator characterization sheet.
  • - The choice of suitable graphic representations.
  • - PRACTICAL WORKSHOP: Building indicators
• Managing economic performance
  • - Determine the areas of challenge, identify the levers and set purchasing savings objectives
  • - Measure purchasing savings
  • - Keep a table of board to manage the purchasing savings process
  • - CASE STUDY: Maintain a dashboard to manage the purchasing savings process
• Manage process performance and put risks under control
  • - Identify the advantages and limitations of the dashboard
  • - Develop a purchasing process management dashboard
  • - Measure the performance gains of the process
  • - Analyze the risks of the purchasing function
  • - Measure and control the risks
• Increase the value created for the benefit of internal customers of the purchasing department
  • - Measure the quality of service provided to internal customers
  • - Analyze the results
  • - CASE STUDY: Analysis of a questionnaire aimed at collecting the expectations of internal customers and to measure their level of satisfaction
• Develop the performance of human resources in the purchasing department
  • - Combine atmosphere indicators and behavioral measurements
  • - Manage the alignment of your resources with the initiatives undertaken
• Develop a dashboard aligned with the strategy
  • - Establish a diagnosis of the purchasing function
  • - Diagnostic tools: the SWOT matrix, the Ishikawa diagram and the 5 whys
  • - Define strategic and decline them
  • - Identify the key success factors
  • - Determine the key performance indicators
  • - The pitfalls to avoid
• PRACTICAL WORKSHOP
  • - Diagnosis and definition of strategic orientations
  • - Identification of key success factors
  • - Development of a purchasing department dashboard
• Assess the maturity of the purchasing department
  • - Use a maturity matrix
  • - Define a synthetic maturity indicator
  • - CASE STUDY: Analysis of an 11-axis purchasing function maturity matrix