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How can you get a ton of valuable educational material for FREE? Just submit your contact information below. You'll immediately get a copy of the 2008 Purchasing & Supply Management Career & Skills Report and access to the online mini-course "Managing Supplier Performance!" Plus, you'll get expert purchasing articles and tips by email every two weeks!
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Are you tired of not getting enough opportunities, respect, and money out of your purchasing career? If so, you will want to earn the SPSM® Certification by completing the Senior Professional in Supply Management® Program. The powerful SPSM® designation has helped others have rewarding purchasing careers and it can help you, too!

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  Powerful Negotiation For Successful Buying
  Expert Purchasing Management
 Basics of Smart International Procurement
 Executing A Global Sourcing Strategy
   
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  Negotiation No-No's
  Managing Supplier Performance (FREE)
 
 
   
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The Purchasing Training Course For New Buyers...

 

MASTERING PURCHASING FUNDAMENTALS

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If you are new to purchasing, are you ready for the many challenges you'll face in the months ahead?  Our highly personal and interactive online class  "Mastering Purchasing Fundamentals" walks you through the purchasing process step-by-step. You'll be ready for these challenges. And you won't need the years of experience usually required to learn how to deal with these challenges. You'll get more than just an introduction to purchasing - you will become an expert at flawlessly executing and managing purchases.

You will learn how to make the many decisions necessary to identify the best potential suppliers, plus…

  • How to most effectively prioritize requisitions
  • How to decide when to use competitive bidding, negotiation, or both
  • How to successfully conduct competitive bidding using solicitation tools such as RFP's and RFQ's
  • How to use financial and operational analysis to select suppliers with not only the best monetary offer, but also the least risk of failure
  • How to determine whether a contract, purchase order, or other method of ordering is best for a certain purchase
  • How to use follow up techniques to ensure supplier compliance
  • How to close out a transaction with confidence
  • How to think like a purchasing manager
  • How to prepare for the future of purchasing
Sign Up For This Online Purchasing Class
Fundamentals of Purchasing - Purchasing Fundamentals Hi. I'm Charles Dominick, the President of Next Level Purchasing. If you choose to improve your workplace performance and enhance your career by taking our online classes, I will make these three promises to you:
CHARLES' THREE PROMISES
  1. You will develop world-class supply management skills! Each major technique that you learn has been used to deliver measurable results in the real world for top-notch organizations. You'll learn how to apply these techniques to deliver those types of results to your organization.
  2. Your online learning experience will be more than just interactive - it will be PERSONAL! You'll engage in exercises and quizzes with immediate feedback and use our "Ask Charles!" feature to send an unlimited number of instant messages to me - your SPSM-certified instructor. I will personally respond to your questions by email within 24 hours. Sometimes within minutes! Even on weekends! You even have the option of requesting a FREE “Video Reply From Charles” delivered to you by email. It’s personal, face-to-face instruction whether you’re in the United States, Europe, Africa, or anywhere else in the world!
  3. You will have FUN! You’ll enjoy a truly rewarding experience as the reading material, audio clips, and exercises are lively and entertaining as well as educational. But don't just take it from me. Listen to what Matilde Waizer, a Purchasing Manager from Florida, had to say: "I am really enjoying the module and applying the knowledge acquired. It is fun and the information is easy to digest. Thank you!"
A great thing about this online class is that you are GUARANTEED to be able to apply what you learn to your work. That's right - your online learning experience is 100% risk-free. If you are not satisfied for any reason whatsoever, let us know within seven days of signing up and you will get a hassle-free refund. But you’ll undoubtedly be delighted, just like this purchasing professional:

"Mastering Purchasing Fundamentals captured the overall purchasing processes very well. This course was especially beneficial in sharing knowledge of contract law as it pertains to purchasing and certain aspects of purchasing in which my on-the-job training had been lacking. Lastly, it is refreshing to see the company I am working for is working toward the goals outlined here!"

Darlene Wiseman
Senior Buyer
Staunton, Virginia, USA

Sign Up For This Online Purchasing Class
Here’s how this online class works. Within 24 hours of signing up, you will receive an email containing a user name, a password, and instructions. After receiving this email, you will be able to begin your purchasing training immediately!

That’s right – you start the course when YOU want to, not when a schedule demands that you start. You don’t have to wait to start transforming yourself into a world-class purchasing professional. You will log into the online classroom through NextLevelPurchasing.com and will be able to access the eight lessons of the class for 60 days. (NOTE: Enrollees in the SPSM Certification Program get access for 2 years)

You can complete the eight lessons of the course whenever you want to, as quickly or deliberately as you would like. There is no specific time that you have to be online. Each lesson takes approximately 30 to 60 minutes to complete. You can stop after doing each lesson or take multiple (or even all) lessons at one time. So for any given time that you choose to log in to the online classroom, you might spend just 30 minutes online (to take just one lesson)or up to eight hours online (if you want to complete the entire class in one sitting). It is all up to you! By participating in these lessons, you will:

  • Read powerful, practical, and easy-to-understand class material
  • Engage in exciting hands-on, interactive, Web-based exercises
  • Listen to optional audio clips of the material
  • Watch optional video summaries of each lesson
  • Take quizzes that provide you with immediate feedback
  • Ask questions of our instructor and get personal responses quickly

To enhance your learning experience, we've teamed up with Purchasing Magazine to present several "Extra Resources" to students enrolled in this class. We'll link you to five articles that expand on the subject matter covered in this class! Each full-length class includes different Extra Resources.

When you complete this purchasing training class, you will receive a Certificate of Completion which awards you with 6.5 Continuing Education Hours*! This full-color purchasing certificate is sent to you by postal mail and is suitable for framing. Here's what our certificates look like:

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And if you sign up for this purchasing training class on or before July 31, 2008, you will get all of these bonuses:

  • $5 Amazon.com® gift card**
  • FREE extended access to the class until October 31, 2008 - more than 150% of the usual amount of time to access the material and ask unlimited questions!
  • FREE printer-friendly, PDF version of the class material!
  • FREE Purchasing Performance Measurement spreadsheet template!
  • FREE access to educational Web-audio interviews with supply chain leaders!

The class and all of these bonuses are yours for only $209 (US) per student. Don't procrastinate and lose out on all of these bonuses.

Need more information? Click here to send us your questions.

Other Online Classes Available:

SPSM Certification Program (6 classes)
Microsoft Excel For Purchasing Professionals
Supply Management Contract Writing
Microsoft Project For Purchasing Professionals
14 Purchasing Best Practices
Savings Strategy Development
Powerful Negotiation For Successful Buying
Expert Purchasing Management
Basics Of Smart International Procurement
Executing a Global Sourcing Strategy
Negotiation No-No's (mini-course)
Managing Supplier Performance (FREE mini-course)

*Participants who successfully complete this program will receive the specified number of hours of continuing education. They may be applied toward Next Level Purchasing's SPSM Certification program requirements as well as ISM C.P.M. recertification and/or A.P.P. reaccreditation program requirements. ISM's consent to provide a program number for this educational event is not an endorsement of this program or its content by ISM.

** Amazon.com is not a sponsor of this promotion. Amazon, Amazon.com, and the Amazon.com logo are registered trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Amazon.com gift cards are issued by ACI Gift Cards, Inc. Restrictions apply to Amazon.com gift cards. Gift cards are redeemable only for purchases of eligible products on www.amazon.com and may not be redeemed for cash, unless prohibited by law. See www.amazon.com/gc-legal for complete terms and conditions. Next Level Purchasing will send your Amazon.com gift card by email approximately 8-12 days after you enroll.
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