Do You Know About The End-Of-The-Year Secret That Will Prevent
Purchasing Professionals Like You From Improving Their Skills?

PurchTips - Edition # 10 November 19, 2002

By Charles Dominick

It's The End Of The Year…

Did you know that your company set aside money for improving your skills this year? Did you take advantage of it? It would be a shame to see budgeted dollars get lost while you could have been qualifying yourself for that next big raise or promotion.

Next Level Purchasing, Inc. suggests that you seek the training you deserve before the year is out. Feel free to use this text in an email to your supervisor:


Dear _____:

I am respectfully requesting your permission to register for purchasing training. I am specifically interested in a course entitled "_____." This course covers the following topics:
1. _____
2. _____

I feel that by taking this course, I could become more effective at doing the things expected from our purchasing department: saving money, supporting operations, and protecting the company from risk.

The cost of the course is $___ and will require me to spend portions of these days on training: ______.

Please respond with your approval or rejection of this request.

Thank you for your consideration.

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

FREE Offer!!!

Is poor supplier performance driving you crazy? You won't have to work so hard if you apply certain proven techniques for evaluating and improving supplier performance. If you have wanted to implement a supplier ratings program but had difficulty getting started, Next Level Purchasing's online mini-course "Managing Supplier Performance" (MSP) is the perfect class for you. And, oh yeah, it's FREE!!!