Publication date : 08/09/2024

Course : Optimizing purchasing and procurement in SMEs

Practical course - 2d - 14h00 - Ref. OEP
Price : 1410 € E.T.

Optimizing purchasing and procurement in SMEs




What are the specific features of purchasing and procurement in SMEs? What are the levers for optimization, and what are the results? How to get organized? How to negotiate more effectively? This training course will enable you to implement a real purchasing/supply approach and manage its performance.


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Practical course in person or remote class
Disponible en anglais, à la demande

Ref. OEP
  2d - 14h00
1410 € E.T.




What are the specific features of purchasing and procurement in SMEs? What are the levers for optimization, and what are the results? How to get organized? How to negotiate more effectively? This training course will enable you to implement a real purchasing/supply approach and manage its performance.


Teaching objectives
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Assessing challenges to identify priorities
Be able to develop your organization
Understanding costs and how to reduce them
Managing purchasing/supply performance

Intended audience
SME/SMI managers, all those in charge of purchasing and supply in SMEs/SMIs.

Prerequisites
No special knowledge required.

Practical details
Teaching methods
Practical exercises and role-playing to help you make the most of purchasing and supply methods and tools.

Course schedule

1
Purchasing and supply organization in SMEs

  • Map the people involved in purchasing.
  • Establish the scope of the function: purchasing and/or supply.
  • Measure the economic, environmental and societal challenges.
  • Understand the function's cross-functional role and its impact on the organization.
  • Identify and organize major purchasing families according to the issues at stake: production and non-production purchasing, etc.
Case study
Mapping the SME's purchasing activities, proposing a segmentation of the purchasing portfolio, identifying the main purchasing challenges and levers.

2
Implementing the five stages of the purchasing process

  • Analyze needs and formalize specifications.
  • Know the market and find new suppliers.
  • Organize consultation and evaluate bids.
  • Prepare your negotiation matrix.
  • Contractualization: legal framework and different types of contracts, general and special clauses.
  • Manage potential conflicts between General Terms and Conditions of Sale and General Terms and Conditions of Purchase.
Hands-on work
Drafting of specifications, preparation of consultation and negotiation. Contract formalization.

3
Understanding costs and optimizing procurement

  • Cost of acquisition.
  • Cost of use.
  • End-of-life cost.
  • Total cost.
Exercise
Calculate the full cost of a product or service.

4
How to cut costs

  • Identify levers for action.
  • Improve negotiating skills by pooling purchases via platforms or purchasing groups.
  • Optimize procurement and inventory management: know how to calculate the main ratios.
Exercise
Select and challenge a sales proposal by calculating inventory costs.

5
Define performance indicators and practice continuous improvement

  • Define and select criteria to be tracked: by product, by supplier...
  • Build relevant measurement indicators.
  • Implement the principles of continuous improvement.
Hands-on work
Construction of a dashboard.


Customer reviews
4,6 / 5
Customer reviews are based on end-of-course evaluations. The score is calculated from all evaluations within the past year. Only reviews with a textual comment are displayed.
ALOISE M.
02/10/25
5 / 5

Formatroce was very professional, a specialist, a good listener and very cool! Very interesting course, I can already see myself progressing in my position and in my department, my ideas of the role of buyer are much clearer now.
GEOFFREY J.
02/10/25
4 / 5

The course provides a very good grounding, which is essential for a good start in the purchasing profession. The material is correct, but could be improved in terms of form (more visually accessible). I commend the professionalism of the trainer, who is a very good listener and gives lots of concrete examples from her own professional experience.
MORGANE L.
02/10/25
5 / 5

The content was very good and the trainer was a good listener who helped me to learn more about the content, particularly the points I didn't know about.



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REMOTE CLASS
2026 : 26 Mar., 18 May, 21 Sep.

PARIS LA DÉFENSE
2026 : 26 Mar., 18 May, 21 Sep.