Strategic Procurement and Supply Management in the Oil and Gas Industry - SC-62 - In House Training

This in-house training programme can be customised to meet your specific requirements. It typically covers:

• Stages to world class supply management
• Change and becoming more strategic
• Supply management skill sets
• Defining supply management
• Examples of job descriptions for supply management
• Developing the spend profile
• Creating time to be strategic
• The ABC (Pareto) analysis and what to do with it
• Material/services purchasing code development
• Elements of cost that make up the price
• Developing "Should Cost"
• Producer price indexes
• Requesting supplier's cost and pricing data
• Dealing with economic uncertainties, when, where, and how to use "Economic Price Adjustment" clauses
• Internal surveys to improve purchasing performance
• Total cost of ownership concepts
• Cost containment methods
• Cost reductions and cost avoidance - can and should we have both
• Savings reporting procedure
• Developing Purchased Materials/Services Strategic Plans
• Developing the purchase price index for your organization
• Negotiation skill sets
• Steps in negotiation preparation
• Positional negotiations, what does win/win really mean
• Final points before the negotiation

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