This course covers the domain of purchasing and the flow of purchasing tasks—from determining the requirements for goods and services through their acceptance.
This course covers the domain of purchasing and the flow of purchasing tasks—from determining the requirements for goods and services through their acceptance.
Major topics include supply chain management, purchasing as a socioeconomic force, purchasing and profit, profit multiplier, purchasing objectives, and the purchasing process.
The practical use of all basic procedures and purchasing techniques is explained, including purchasing services, organizational considerations and alternative, sourcing, quantity, and inventory planning and control.
The course also covers price determination, negotiation and cost-price analysis, capital acquisitions, value analysis, quality requirements, specifications, inventory cost savings, shipping, and purchasing with ethical and social responsibility.
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This program provides students the opportunity to develop skills in the growing field of logistics and supply chain management. Students will learn about the flow and movement that organizations utilize to produce and deliver their products and services.
Students will learn what defines the major functions that are necessary for an operational supply chain. This course will also define the linkage of the functions that form the chain and how that chain is linked with other business processes to form the basis for the management of the supply chain.
This certificate is designed to move students from the classroom to the workplace in less that twelve weeks. This certificate incorporates Certified Logistics Associate(CLA) and Certified Logistics Technician (CLT) into one 48-hour fast track class.
Discover and master the fundamentals of purchasing by understanding your strategic and tactical roles as a purchasing practitioner. Improve your company's bottom-line profitability by learning and implementing key concepts such as negotiation, supplier sourcing and qualification.
Supply Chain Management/Logistics is the support system behind every commodity and offers job opportunities across a dozen specialty areas ranging from warehousing and transportation management to purchasing, inventory control and customer service.
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