Effective Purchasing and Contract Negotiation Strategies

This training course is highly participative, delegates are expected to relate the teaching to their experience and to challenge current thinking in group discussion. Team based exercises cover key learning stages where delegates explore problems and offer solutions to set exercises. Small scale negotiations throughout the seminar lead to a more complex negotiation on the final day. Each delegate is expected to develop an action plan through which to implement learning back in the workplace. 

At the end of this Purchasing and Contract Negotiation Strategies training course, you will learn to:

• Build an efficient and effective purchasing function
• Communicate more effectively inside and outside of the organisation
• Understand your personal strengths and weaknesses
• Understand contract needs and eliminate contractual risks
• Plan and deliver a successful negotiation and negotiate with different cultures
• Have confidence in your ability to negotiate at all levels with all organisations

This training course benefits those who make policy as well as those whose role is to apply policy. Status / Job title / Role in the Company is irrelevant. It is applicable to those new to the purchasing as well as those experienced in the process.

This Gulf Rowad Purchasing and Contract Negotiation Strategies training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Those who are new to purchasing
• Those with some years experience in purchasing but who wish to regenerate their thinking or attitude
• Those at all levels in projects / site contract management / engineering with supply chain involvement
• Those in a Company who influence the selection of materials/ services / source of supply
• Any person regardless of background or present role / position who wishes to understand the purchase process

Organisational Impact

Create confident employees who will challenge the ‘way things are’ and improve purchasing performance at reduced cost and risk, thereby increasing company profitability.

• Identify the key failures which prevent the purchasing operation from being successful
• Develop a more confident individual, comfortable at representing the function at all levels in the Company
• Reduce total cost of purchased materials, equipment and services at reduced risk
• Change from being reactive to needs to being proactive in all aspects of performance
• Protect the Company’s interests through better understanding of negotiation and contracts
• Make performance improvement a key element in managing the business

Personal Impact

Have the understanding of what good practice looks like and the courage to stand up for change where it is needed.

• An appreciation of what is possible in Purchasing and how you may contribute more
• An understanding of your present capabilities and where you should invest in personal improvement
• Increased confidence in operating in different environments / cultures / business levels
• Greater comfort and confidence when placed in ‘difficult’ negotiating positions
• An appreciation of other people’s problems and how to persuade them to your way of thinking
• Become more challenging of existing methods and systems and less accepting of the way things are