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Cost Knowledge Approach to Purchasing Stampings
Purpose: Provide the knowledge and tools to effectively manage purchasing of stampings. Learn how to develop, analyze and negotiate stamping quotations and build effective and efficient models to estimate costs, pricing, and key manufacturing metrics that determine costs. Scope: This course is intended for stamping purchasing teams that want to develop and use detailed cost breakdowns and should-be cost models to validate supplier pricing and costs. It includes tools for developing stamping cost models based upon supplier quotes and/or physical part attributes as well as negotiation techniques to effectively use cost breakdowns and cost models in supplier pricing negotiations. Audience: Buyers, commodity…
Find out more »Developing and Negotiating with Cost Breakdowns
Purpose: Provide the knowledge required to develop, analyze and negotiate with supplier detailed cost breakdown quotations. Scope: This course is intended for purchasing teams that want to increase their cost knowledge while effectively negotiating pricing with suppliers. It includes tools for analyzing detailed cost breakdowns from supplier quotes as well as questioning techniques to gain additional cost knowledge from suppliers. Audience: Buyers, commodity managers, and purchasing managers Objectives: After attending this course, attendees will be able to: Understand the benefits of cost transparency for buyers and suppliers Know shop floor accounting methods that suppliers use to…
Find out more »Developing and Negotiating with Cost Models
Purpose: Provide the knowledge required to build, analyze supplier pricing with and negotiate with should-be cost models. Scope: This course is intended for purchasing teams that want to develop and use should-be cost models to validate supplier pricing. It includes tools for developing cost models based upon supplier quotes and/or physical part attributes as well as negotiation techniques to effectively use the models in supplier pricing negotiations. Audience: Buyers, commodity managers, and purchasing managers with experience analyzing detailed cost breakdowns…
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