Why should you attend:

This live webinar is intended to provide attendees with information on implementing purchasing policies for purchasing professionals. Attendees should leave the program with practical applications that they can apply to their daily business. Topics may include: outlining the strategic role of purchasing in the organization, latest business writing techniques suited for the development of policies, processes, procedures, and service level agreements (SLA), how to formulation policies to effectively govern the organizations purchasing activities, how to design cross functional processes and procedures that optimize effort, cost, time, output and controls, develop SLAs that set smart rules of engagement between the purchasing department and the rest of the organization, and examples and case studies. This program should be geared towards an intermediate level for attendees.

Implementing Purchasing Policies for Purchasing Professionals
I.    For existing Procurement Offices review what is working and what isn’t working in your current environment.
a.    Ask customers that you service to provide feedback or a formal customer satisfaction survey.
i.    What does our Procurement Office do best?
ii.    What does our Procurement Office do worst?
iii.    What services are we providing that you find helpful?
iv.    What services would you like added to make your job easier?

b.    Meet with current stake holders that use your procurement documents in their workflow
i.    Accounting
ii.    Receiving
iii.    Equipment or Asset Management
iv.    Safety or Hazardous Control Offices
v.    Other internal control staff

c.    Meet with outside control agencies or departments that impact workflow

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Creating a Procurement Procedure
• Creating a Workflow
• Creating Documents
• Internal Controls
• Avoiding Pitfalls

Who will benefit:

• Purchasing, Finance
• Accounting, Contracting
• Finance
• Internal Control Officers