Purchasing best practice

Module content

Day one

(i) Purchasing considerations
-        cost, quality, time scale, availability of capacity, account management style
-        developing new suppliers
-        managing a different emphasis
-        supplier/customer or working partnership

(ii) Negotiation skills
-        what’s the job?
-        will it work?
-        who can do it?
-        can we keep to budget?
-        avoiding complaints by reviewing performance

(iii) Preparing a specification for a magazine
-        what to include:
o        prepress
o        print, bind, in-line insertion
o        finish, pack and deliver
o        other specifics
o        paper, postal wrap and data, wholesale delivery instructions

Day two

(iv) Cost management
- forecasting, budgeting, controlling costs and final costing

(v) Assessing the quality of services and products
-        A technical review of the quality of a finished product
-        Reviewing service with suppliers
-        assessing specific elements of cost, service and quality between suppliers
-        identifying areas for improvement