Training for Buyers

a one-day in-company training programme

1 Day - On Request

This course is one of our standard in-company programmes and can be delivered to your people at a venue and date of your choice. If it is not exactly what you want then we can either create a tailored course based on our extensive library of standard course materials or produce a fully bespoke training course for you. Please call 01608 644144 for details.

Only one or two people to train? Then click here to see our open course options, or consider our coaching service

Course Overview:
This course is for buyers or anyone with a buying responsibility and is worth months of experience. The course identifies delegates buying styles and the techniques which are needed to maximise results from the use of any particular style. Also covered are the strategy and tactics necessary to succeed in obtaining the best possible deal for the organisation.

The course will develop your buying skills and provide a structure to help you achieve positive outcomes with suppliers.

Programme Contents

The Benefits to the Business of Better Buying
Procurement Policy
Purchasing Procedures
The Difference Between Buying/Negotiating
Negotiation with Suppliers
Achieving the best Possible Deal
Setting Clear Objectives
Planning/Budgeting
Buying/Negotiating Styles
- Practical Exercise
Buying Skills
- Assertiveness
- Non Verbal Communication
- Listening
Buying With Technology
Action Plans