Controlling indirect purchases is a real cost saver for the company. How can you provide the right response to the internal customer's requirements, reduce costs and promote responsible purchasing? This training course will show you how to structure and implement a veritable purchasing approach for overhead costs.
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2d - 14h
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Controlling indirect purchases is a real cost saver for the company. How can you provide the right response to the internal customer's requirements, reduce costs and promote responsible purchasing? This training course will show you how to structure and implement a veritable purchasing approach for overhead costs.
Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Map your organisation’s purchases related to overhead costs
Implement a genuine purchasing approach
Get those involved to express the right need
Calculate in terms of total costs in order to reduce costs
Integrate environmental and social criteria
Intended audience
General services managers, purchasers, administrative and financial managers, managers making general purchases, SME managers and assistants.
Prerequisites
No specific knowledge.
Course schedule
Situating indirect purchases
Rules relating to the purchasing function within an organisation.
The organisation of purchases and its impact in terms of efficiency.
The part to be played by indirect purchases in the organisation.
The specificities of the main families of overhead costs.
Focus: cleaning purchases, reception, green spaces, supplies, car fleet, telephony, travel, etc.
Indirect purchases and the OSR/CSR policy: deploying responsible purchasing.
Exercise
Participants map their organisation's overheads before analysing the risks and opportunities
Analysing needs and costs
Identify the most important issues and prioritise the families.
Prepare the technical and/or functional specifications.
Calculate the overall cost of a product or service.
Take into account the requirements of the responsible purchasing approach.
Exercise
Draft the specifications for the purchase of a supply and the purchase of a service.
Selecting suppliers and service providers
Recognise the market's specificities and selecting suppliers adapted to your needs.
Establish a consultation grid.
Develop relations with structures focused on solidarity: inclusion through economic activity, social and solidarity economy, work assistance establishments and departments.
Exercise
Identifying supplier and service provider selection criteria
Safeguarding the contracts
Recognise the different types of contracts.
Distinguish between obligation of means and result: impacts in terms of responsibility.
Prevent risks associated with certain services: illegal bargaining or labour lending for profit.
Identify important contractual clauses.
Exercise
Drafting the purchasing clauses for a service.
Monitoring service quality
Define indicators and monitoring suppliers.
Manage economic gains.
Validate the level of service and internal customer satisfaction.
Implement a continuous improvement approach.
Practical details
Exercise
Practical exercises based on different types of purchases serve to quickly become familiar with the methods presented.
Teaching methods;
Interactive presentations and participatory work.
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Dates and locations
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Remote class
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