The Effective Buyer

Dynamic, interactive and totally participant focused, this Gulf Rowad The Effective Buyer training course will be delivered by a world class subject matter expert, whose knowledge and skills have been honed over many years working in the field of procurement and contract management. Using the most up to date learning practices, current material and actual case studies, the participants will be taken on a journey of discovery by understanding the real need to develop the right processes and systems for their organization. 

By the end of this The Effective Buyer training course, participants will be able to:

• Achieve Operational Efficiency in Purchasing
• Select and Managing Suppliers
• Develop a Balanced Performance Measurement Framework that is value driven
• Evaluate Suppliers - developing key measures for a total cost and value approach
• Understand the Stages of Effective Contract and Supplier Management

This Gulf Rowad The Effective Buyer training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Contracts, Procurement, Purchasing, and Project personnel
• New Buyers or those appointed to the role in the past two or three years
• Managers responsible for buying departments who wish to understand the roles and activities of their team
• Staff responsible for Supply Chain Performance
• Engineering, Operational, Quality, and Maintenance personnel
• And all others who are involved in interfacing with contractors or suppliers in the acquisition of materials, equipment, parts, and services or anyone who wants to improve supplier performance

Organisational Impact

The organization will benefit by having trained personnel who can understand and implement:

• Procurement Spend Analysis
• RFIs, RFQs, RFPs, ITTs, and Framework Agreements
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Decision Analysis
• Effective Tendering and Evaluating responses
• The Contract Award Process

Personal Impact

Delegates attending this, The Effective Buyer training course will learn and benefit by:

• Understand the role and objectives of procurement within the organization
• Understand whole life costing
• Defining the differences between scope statements, scope of work and statement of work
• Developing a supplier engagement strategy
• Understand collaborative and effective specification development
• Defining the essential elements of forming a legal contract