Busy Purchasing Professionals Demand That
Training Be Made More Convenient:
Spending On Online Purchasing Training
To Triple In Next Year

PurchTips - Edition # 3 August 13, 2002

By Charles Dominick

Purchasing Leaders Survey

Approximately 250 purchasing leaders were invited to participate in a survey covering purchasing skills and skill development. The survey overwhelmingly illustrated a problem facing the purchasing profession today:

Purchasing professionals are too busy to leave
the office to attend training on a regular basis.

This premise was supported by the following survey results:

• The most important factor when considering a purchasing training opportunity is convenience of time/location.
• The biggest frustration with trying to locate purchasing training is inconvenient times and locations.
• The most commonly encountered problem when attending purchasing training is the inconvenience of being away from the office.

Online Training To Triple

With convenience being a prevalent theme among the survey responses, it is not a surprise that the average company will increase its spending on online purchasing training to $2,310 this year from $840 last year. Online classes allow students to receive their training via the Internet. Students can participate in this training at the time and place most convenient for their schedules: during lunch hours, the least busy time of the work day, evenings, weekends, from the office, at home, on the road, etc.

Spotlight On Professional Development Opportunities

Are you putting your organization at significant risk by not having a good contract in place? Without contract writing skills, you may be contributing to a disaster waiting to happen. Next Level Purchasing's online class "Supply Management Contract Writing" will help you reduce your procurement risks. This class goes beyond explaining contract law. Through plain English examples and exercises, you will learn how to negotiate and write effective contracts and terms and conditions.

You will learn how to protect your organization from the effects of suppliers' failure to perform, plus…

• How to choose the most appropriate agreement form
• How to develop language for dispute resolution
• How to write key commercial provisions
• How to write key technical provisions
• How to write key legal provisions, and much more

For more information on this 15-Minute Tutorial and other online classes for purchasing professionals, visit:

www.NextLevelPurchasing.com

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