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Supplier Relationships

Achieving Value-Add Through Supply Alliances #3950, Member: $195 Non-Member: $295 (10 CEHs) This course is designed for supply management professionals to develop and maintain effective and positive relationships addressing cultural and organizational barriers within your organization. This course focuses on understanding the scope, structure, and dynamics of strategic relationships with different external and internal organizational structures. This course also discusses how to evaluate and incorporate the purchasing / supplier alliance relationships and plan to negotiate, implement, and monitor / manage alliance relationships in your organization.

Effective Supply: Supplier Performance Measurement and Supplier Value-Add #PEX202, Member: $79 Non-Member: $119 (1.5 CEHs) While measuring supplier performance is very costly and time consuming, it can be justified by the benefits of identifying and resolving inefficiencies and performance problems. The frameworks and criteria for assessing supplier performance is presented along with actions that can drive value through your suppliers.

Efficient Supply Systems: Supplier Measurement Systems #PEX508, Member: $99 Non-Member: $149 (2 CEHs) Measurements of suppliers’ performance are critical to the selection of the best suppliers and the improvement of suppliers’ performance over time. Measuring and managing suppliers' performance are critical ingredients for increasing the value-add of suppliers, as well as fundamental requirements for evaluating suppliers for future work. Measurements also tell the supplier what is valued by the buying organization and, by exclusion, what is not.

Managing and Improving Supplier Performance #3963, Member: $195 Non-Member: $295 (10 CEHs) Learn the methods necessary to harness the collective power of the supply base and use it as a competitive advantage. This course provides a strategic and tactical framework for managing commercial relationships with members of the supply base.