Applied Cost and Price Analysis Online Course Available
Applied Cost and Price Analysis is available on the American Purchasing Society’s site. This
Robert Menard, Certified Purchasing Professional, Certified Professional Purchasing Consultant, Certified Green Purchasing Professional
course meets the demand voiced by the purchasing community for a practical, user friendly, and powerful tool to meet the challenges of both Cost Analysis and Price Analysis. It has modifiable templates, examples and, even anecdotes from personal experience all applied to negotiation, supplier management, and cost drivers. A more complete specification of the course’s horsepower is here.
Online courses in general have become the go to medium of education and training as the budgets have been cut throughout this economic downturn. This means that dedicated employees, rather than employers, have turned to online solutions rather than live instructor lead seminars. Most employers reimburse employees for the cost but generally, the courses are taken on employee instead of employer time.
The Society and I will continue to develop course content to meet the needs expressed by members and the purchasing community at large. The next online course scheduled for publication in winter 2013 is Spend Analytics Using Excel followed by Supplier Relationship Management in spring 2013. These two will join these listed below as education and training resources growing in popularity amongst the professional purchasing class.
The Science of Negotiation presents the process side of negotiation. It includes research and planning, concession behavior, win-win and other strategies, and tools and techniques used by the best negotiators all built on the foundation of instruction on the total cost of ownership.
The Art of Negotiation is more troublesome for the purchasing crowd. It includes studies of speaking and listening communication skills, communication techniques, personality issues, tactics and counter tactics, and legal concepts.
The Science and Art of Negotiation combines both courses and comes at a discount. Additionally, for a limited time, a free copy of my negotiation book, You’re the Buyer – You Negotiate It accompanies this course.
How to Buy a New or Used Car is a course that meets the needs of professional and non professional buyers alike. In the more than two decades of doing purchasing seminars, no issue has arisen more often than how to buy a car.
Green Purchasing and Sustainability I and II are comprehensive courses aimed at coupling the concept of sustainability and cost savings. Sustainability is all about conservation and preservations, two synonyms for savings. This course is also a requirement of the Certified Green Purchasing Professional designation.
Body Language is fun and interesting on its own but is also essential to the completer skill set of the professional negotiator.