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If Beginning To Buy Globally Overwhelms You, You Need The Course...
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BASICS OF SMART INTERNATIONAL PROCUREMENT |
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Are you responsible for increasing your organization's international procurement and don't know where to begin?International procurement is a challenge. Buying internationally is much more complex than buying domestically.
Buying internationally involves having to expand your knowledge of many aspects of procurement that you don't have to worry about when buying domestically. Differences in cultures, laws, communications, currencies, and more have to be understood to support international procurement. And if you don't have a good foundation, your international procurement efforts will have a higher probability of failing.
But the good news is that the details of successful international procurement don't have to be a mystery. Our highly personal and interactive online course "Basics of Smart International Procurement" will teach you the critical things every purchasing professional needs to know before buying from foreign suppliers!
You will learn how to assess the cultural differences that you may experience with suppliers from different parts of the world, plus…
- 7 key characteristics of cultural differences that you need to know to avoid any unpleasant surprises from your suppliers
- How to determine whether international suppliers might be withholding bad news from you
- How international suppliers differ in the importance they place on personal relationships
- How the importance of contracts will differ among international suppliers
- When you might face one of the worst shocks - an international supplier's request to renegotiate a contract
- 5 critical clauses that should be included in every international procurement contract
- 6 principles for writing contract language that is clear and ideally suited for international procurement situations
- Tips for reducing intellectual property risks
- How to handle communication when you and your supplier have different native languages
- Little known facts for reducing communication misunderstandings with foreign suppliers, including the use of jokes, hand gestures, and written communications
- How exchange rates get factored into international procurement transactions
- How to calculate currency conversions
- Currency risks associated with international procurement transactions
- How hedging tools like forward contracts and options are used to protect buying organizations from cost increases
- 3 ways that products are services are priced and a currency strategy for each
- The increased significance of accurate forecasts in international transactions and how poor forecasts impact cost
- A risk sharing formula that truly distributes risk equally between a buyer and a foreign supplier
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Sign Up For This Online Purchasing Class |
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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: |
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CHARLES' THREE PROMISES |
- 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.
- 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!
- 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!"
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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:
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"I've learned a bit with each class but all of the material presented in this class was new to me so I learned a great deal. I'm in talks now with a company that does much of its business overseas and this class will prove to be invaluable. All of the courses have been great. I anxiously await the next one!"
Karen M Bushnell, MBA, SPSM
Purchasing/Facilities Manager
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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Sign Up For This Online Purchasing Class |
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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 the class
immediately!
That’s right – you start the
class 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 international procurement
course for 60 days.
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
the class, you will
receive a Certificate of
Completion which awards you with
8 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 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. |
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