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This page will introduce you to several results-improving on-site procurement seminars
that Next Level Purchasing can bring to your location.
These are not public seminars. If you are an individual seeking training for just yourself, please visit our page
of online purchasing courses that will enable you to begin your learning whenever you wish.
If you are a team leader and want to bring Next Level Purchasing's world-class training to your facility
for a group, please identify the below-listed seminar(s) you are interested in and contact us at
1-412-294-1991 or busdev@nextlevelpurchasing.com for a quote.
The seminars on this page are divided into four categories:
Procurement Seminars
Negotiation Seminars
Contracts Seminars
Strategic Sourcing & Supply Chain Seminars
PROCUREMENT SEMINARS
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Building A Rock Solid Foundation With Strong Procurement Skills
- Seminar Length: 1/2 day or full day
- Seminar Description: This seminar is designed to provide basic principles
and concepts of purchasing practices to those new to the profession. These principles include
preparing comprehensive Requests For Proposals, evaluating supplier proposals, win-win negotiation,
and more!
- Online Course Alternative: Mastering Purchasing Fundamentals
Buying From Beyond The Borders: International Procurement & Contracting
- Seminar Length: 1 day, 1/2 day, 2 hour or 1 hour
- Seminar Description: This seminar is designed to review the critical principles
and processes for successful sourcing/contracting in a global environment.
- Online Course Alternative: Basics of Smart International Procurement
Commercial Acquisition in the Federal Contracting Environment
- Seminar Length: 1 day, 1/2 day, 2 hour or 1 hour
- Seminar Description: This seminar is designed to review FAR principles related to
acquisition of commercial items, with emphasis on FAR Part 12 principles.
Procurement Best Practices: Techniques For Procurement Transformation
- Seminar Length: 1 day or 1/2 day
- Seminar Description: This seminar is designed to explore the practices
generally viewed as leading to World-Class performance in supply management so that participants
can determine where they are and begin immediate implementation of the steps needed to create
maximum total value for their organizations.
- Online Course Alternative: 14 Purchasing Best Practices
Procurement's Role In Protecting Intellectual Property
- Seminar Length: 2 hour or 1 hour
- Seminar Description: This seminar is designed to review forms of Intellectual Property
and what organizations must do to adequately protect this often intangible asset which provides
the competitive edge to their organization.
Tackling the Ethical Challenges in Procurement
- Seminar Length: 1/2 day
- Seminar Description: This seminar is designed to provide the principles
and standards that the procurement and supply management profession considers just, appropriate, and correct.
It is intended to provide insight for handling difficult routine issues in ways that have a positive long-term effect.
- Online Course Alternative: 15 Rules For Ethical Supplier Interaction
The Finance For Procurement Crash Course
- Seminar Length: 1 hour
- Seminar Description: This seminar is designed to provide a procurement team with a fast-paced introduction
to financial principles and why they are important for procurement success. It covers basic financial statement reading,
measuring procurement performance, and evaluating supplier financial health.
- Online Course Alternative: Finance For Strategic Procurement, Part I
and Finance For Strategic Procurement, Part II
The Procurement Ethics Crash Course
- Seminar Length: 1 hour
- Seminar Description: This seminar is designed to introduce procurement and non-procurement professionals alike
to several types of obvious and not so obvious ethical challenges that arise when interacting with suppliers.
Clear ethical guidelines are provided to enable attendees to have a long, successful career,
free from accusations of poor integrity.
- Online Course Alternative: 15 Rules For Ethical Supplier Interaction
The Procurement Game Plan – Live!
- Seminar Length: 2 days, 1 day, or 1/2 day
- Seminar Description: This seminar is a live adaptation of the exciting, groundbreaking book "The Procurement
Game Plan: Winning Strategies & Techniques For Supply Management Professionals." It is designed to cover all the bases of having a
world-class, structured approach to critical procurement activities, including sourcing, negotiation, cost savings reporting,
and more!
Winning The Backdoor Selling Battle
- Seminar Length: 1/2 day
- Seminar Description: This seminar is designed to explain how to identify back door selling questions,
why the salesperson is asking them, and, most importantly, how any who comes in contact with suppliers should respond
in order to protect the organization's negotiation position.
NEGOTIATION SEMINARS
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Bargaining & Beyond: Top-Notch Negotiation & Contract Management
- Seminar Length: 1 day or 1/2 day
- Seminar Description: This seminar is designed to provide strong competencies in the methods
and strategies that result in successful negotiations and contract management including common negotiation tactics,
how to negotiate with single/sole source suppliers, and more!
- Online Course Alternative: Powerful Negotiation For Successful Buying
Negotiation For Executives: Becoming The Bargaining Secret Weapon
- Seminar Length: 1-1/2 day or 1 day
- Seminar Description: This seminar is designed to provide the art and science of building
winning negotiation strategies for top management. It covers appropriate planning, distributive and integrative negotiations,
creative problem solving, multi-party negotiations, and more.
- Online Course Alternative: Powerful Negotiation For Successful Buying
Procurement Contract Negotiations: From Bid To Signature
- Seminar Length: 1 day, 1/2 day, 2 hour or 1 hour
- Seminar Description: This seminar is designed to discuss the critical strategies
and tactics for negotiating simple to complex contracts; includes actual exercise(s) to enable participant
practice of some of the more important negotiating principles.
CONTRACTS SEMINARS
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Contract Law For Procurement Professionals: Terms and Conditions & More
- Seminar Length: 1 day, 1/2 day, 2 hour or 1 hour
- Seminar Description: This seminar is designed to review basic legal principles
which apply to the contemporary procurement and contracting environment, with a focus on the practical application
of those principles by the procurement professional.
- Online Course Alternative: Supply Management Contract Writing
Differences & Distinctions When Contracting For Services
- Seminar Length: 1/2 day, 2 hour or 1 hour
- Seminar Description: This seminar is designed to review the critical distinctions
between commodity and services contracts, and discuss how to construct the optimal services contract.
Procurement Contract Writing & Management: Making Deals Official & Enforceable
- Seminar Length: 1 day or 1/2 day
- Seminar Description: This seminar is designed to analyze the critical
contract writing process, including terms and conditions, statements of work/specifications, and contract amendments.
This seminar also reviews the critical contract management process.
- Online Course Alternative: Supply Management Contract Writing
STRATEGIC SOURCING & SUPPLY CHAIN SEMINARS
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How To Implement A Stellar Strategic Sourcing Process
- Seminar Length: 2 day or 1 day
- Seminar Description: This seminar is designed to provide a comprehensive overview
of the strategic sourcing process, including performing market research, evaluating suppliers and applying
total cost of ownership principles.
- Online Course Alternative: Savings Strategy Development
Inventory Management By The Numbers
- Seminar Length: 1 hour
- Seminar Description: This seminar is designed to help supply chain teams
achieve the right balance in inventory levels. It teaches the strategies behind several inventory management
formulas such as those related to safety stock, reorder point, and order quantity. In addition,
it describes some situations where traditional formulas just aren't practical and how you may need
to modify them for use in your particular situation.
Leadership When The Targets Are Moving & The Times Are Trying
- Seminar Length: 2 hour or 1 hour
- Seminar Description: This seminar is designed to review critical principles
for leadership in the currently challenging environment, recognizing the every employee must play
either a formal or informal leadership role in the organization.
Select & Protect: Using Strategic Sourcing & Supply Risk Management For Success
- Seminar Length: 1 day, 1/2 day, 2 hour or 1 hour
- Seminar Description: This seminar is designed to comprehensively review
the principles and detailed methodology for center-led strategic sourcing and to review the process
and tools utilized in supply chain risk identification and mitigation.
- Online Course Alternative: Savings Strategy Development
and 14 Purchasing Best Practices
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