What is this courseabout

What is this course about?

Every organization big or small depends on materials and services from other organizations to varying extents. These materials & services are obtained through exchange of money and the physical arrangement of it all. This function of business is responsible for the coordination of planning, sourcing, purchasing, moving, storing and controlling materials in an optimum manner so as to provide service to the customers at a pre-decided level and minimum cost. This concept is coined as Purchasing & Material Management.

Table Of Content

Chapter1. Definition and trends within Purchasing Management

Chapter2. Purchasing Organization

Chapter3. Internal Collaboration

Chapter4. Sourcing Strategies

Chapter5. Purchasing portfolio models

Chapter6. Corporate Social Responsibility in Purchasing Management

Chapter7. Environmentally Preferable Purchasing

Chapter8. Information Systems in Purchasing Management

Chapter9. Supplier Selection with focus on choice of evaluation criteria

Chapter10. Supplier selection using a fuzzy linear programming model

Chapter11. Supplier selection using ISO standards

Chapter12. Tacit knowledge transfer, a crucial part of supplier development

Chapter13. Supplier development with quality focus

Chapter14. Supplier-buyer collaboration, one way to reach success

Chapter15. Information sharing, the driver of a proficient buyer-supplier relationship

Chapter16. Appendices

Chapter17. Bibliography

What are the course deliverables?

Deliverables:

1. Online access to voice-based learning content for 2 months or 3 months (e-learning).

2. Study material will be provided through courier within 7 days after registering

3. Support from subject matter experts on e-mail

4. 3 sessions of tele support for 20 minutes during the training

5. Sample questions for preparation

6. Facility for taking online exam any time after completion of the training

7. Certification for candidates scoring more than 40% marks in the exam.