Purchasing and Supply Management Courses
- Fundamentals of Purchasing and Supply Management
- Negotiating for Competitive Advantage and Mutual Gain
- Understanding Contracts and Legal Issues: Reducing Liability and Cost While Increasing Flexibility
- Supplier Cost Management: Applied Best Practices That Ensure Minimum Total Cost
- Strategic Global Sourcing
- Mastering Your Indirect and Service Spend Categories: Leveraging Applied Best Practices to Contain Costs
To earn your Purchasing and Supply Management certificate, complete any four courses from the list above within three years. You may attend as many courses as you wish, in any order, without obligation to the certificate.
This certificate series is designed specifically for supply management and purchasing professionals who need a body of knowledge to:
- Integrate purchasing and supply management processes into their organization’s strategy
- Address increasingly complex purchasing management issues
- Demonstrate personal and professional growth in purchasing and supply management
What is covered in the certificate series courses?
You learn:
- Entire purchasing processes for various materials
- Legal foundations for making better decisions
- Performance measures to show improved results
- Total landed/end-use cost and price analyses
- How to apply value engineering to procurement processes
- Supplier assessment, selection and management
- Factors and steps in effective negotiations with suppliers
- Strategies that support total supply management initiatives
- Technology and e-commerce in buyer/supplier relationships
- Successful implementation of sourcing strategies
“Completion of the Purchasing certificate series has given me the confidence to explore options I would not have considered before. It has provided the foundation to help me pursue my C.P.M.”
Terri Hamus, Program Coordinator, Marshfield Electric & Water, Marshfield, WI
“Having earned my Purchasing certificate at UW Executive Education, I am more confident to make positive changes, armed with the latest ideas in the purchasing and supply management fields.”
Rodger Williams, PMP Specialist, Webcrafters, Inc., Madison, WI
