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Purchasing Training

Purchasing Training – Specifications and Scope of Work Analyst

Watch this purchasing training that picks up where last weeks left off about why you need to STOP buying goods and services and instead, start buying PERFORMANCE RESULTS. Eliminate almost all of your procurement problems becoming a Specifications and Scope of Work Analyst. Email readers, click the video image below or Click Here to watch now.

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Purchasing Training

Let’s Agree to Kill the Word “Customer” From Purchasing Lingo   I did a seminar just recently where  kept hearing the word “customer” over and over.  How did this word come about?  Calling internal people who generate demand the “customer”?  And when I hear that word used in our profession, everyone knows exactly what it means.  Nobody questions

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Is Your Purchasing Organization a “Back Office” Function?

I’m going to keep this week’s blog short due to my very hectic travel and training schedule. Why is it?  Why is it that Sales is recognized by every CEO as the money maker inside the corporation, but Purchasing is a back office function? Why is it that Sales is recognized for generating revenue, but purchasing

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Purchasing Training – Expenditure Analysis

Expenditure Analysis – Are You Doing It? I remember so clearly going to a client facility once in Puerto Rico. They had decided they were going to do a massive purchasing process overhaul, with the express focus of getting more savings on the table. They were convinced the approach they adopted was the right one.

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The Purchasing Organization’s Biggest Enemy

We talked earlier about purchasing professional’s biggest enemy being a lack of contract knowledge, thinking a contract approved by the legal department is a good contract, and using contracts as seat belts instead of as anti-lock brakes – resulting in endless time spent putting out fires in your day job. Now let’s take a different

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Purchasing Negotiation Training

How Much Time Are You Spending Preparing for Negotiations? I’m here to break myths and to kill bad practices. We need to start doing business differently as purchasing professionals. Putting out fires all day is not going to cut it. Hey, I’m not an academic, I’ve been there, remember? I was doing public and in-house

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Your Purchasing Contracts are Killing You – Here’s Why

I’m going to keep this one really short. I want you to look in the mirror and ask yourself how much free, productive time you have every day on the job as a purchasing professional. Be honest. The truth is, and I can say this based on my years of global experience, is that you

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