Spend Analytics Using Excel is Now Live Online
Robert Menard
Certified Purchasing Professional,
Certified Professional Purchasing Consultant, Certified Green Purchasing Professional, Certified Professional Purchasing Manager
In the spring, we announced the upcoming Spend Analytics Using Excel online course was near ready for release. We took extra time to vet the curse and now it is fully ready. You can access it here. When you enroll in the course, please send me an email with your feedback and I’ll send you a free copy of my negotiation book.
Many buyers use Excel to analyze spend data but struggle with how to do it effectively. This online course demonstrates techniques, logic, and application so you can organize and manage data using Excel to calculate and present “dollars & numbers” rational business decisions. This online course solves one of the most vexing problems in the purchasing profession, how to manage, control, and benefit from Spend Analysis Using Excel. It will:
- Demonstrate proven practices and needed to analyze and evaluate spend data and the underlying forensics for discovering lost savings opportunities
- Provide step by step processes, lists, and actions that must be taken and/or avoided to produce the best results
- Stimulate the investigative and diagnostic skills applied to spend data that are expected of and by executives
- Encourage sophisticated applications of spend analysis limited only by skill and intellectual curiosity
- Describe shortcuts on sorting, presenting, and analyzing data, including the creation of persuasive charts and graphics
You will learn how to analyze supplier responses to RFQs, evaluate supplier performance, and how to manage, manipulate, and organize mountains of spend records to save hills of money.
To see a minute video about the course, click here .