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GLOBAL BEST PRACTICES IN PROCUREMENT
- Why improve performance?
- Manage plans & enterprise alignment.
- Collaboration – who needs it & why?
- Strategic sourcing
- Value-added opportunities
- Supplier qualification
- Performance evaluation
Overview of the webinar
The leadership wants to know the best way to prepare the enterprise for continued success. Customers are demanding more from their suppliers. A recent “Industry Week” communication cited “this cold reality of the unforgiving customers who demand on-time delivery, flawless order accuracy, comprehensive traceability and unmatched quality becomes a continuous process for meeting an enterprises business objective. Those requirements coupled with the ongoing bottom-line pressure to cut costs present suppliers with a stark choice to evolve or die. Performance improvement is not an option!
Are you ready to take the necessary action?
The key to providing a quality product/service is having suppliers who provide consistent quality along timely delivery. Anything less will not only reduce your performance but will increase the cost, waste time and materials and result in losing customers.
Find out how you can improve the performance currently get from your suppliers. Explore proven strategies to develop workable and effective supplier relationships.
Businesses cannot solve problems by just switching suppliers. The costs of poor quality always continue, cost of error detection, the cost of error correction, time to replace rejected materials and erosion of customer confidence.
Who should attend?
- Supply Chain Directors or Managers
- Purchasing Directors or Managers
- Purchasing agents and buyers
- Materials Manager
Why should you attend?
- BE ABLE TO CONVERSE WITH SUPPLIERS ON HOW TO ACHIEVE THE DESIRED RESULTS
- HOW TO KEEP COSTS DOWN
- LEARN THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS TO ATTAIN A WIN-WIN RELATIONSHIP
- HOW TO EMPLOY THE STEPS TO ATTAIN A SUPPLIER CERTIFICATION RELATIONSHIP
- LEARN HOW TO ADDRESS AND RESOLVE COST AND RESPECTIVE QUALITY ISSUES
- UNDERSTANDING CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT MENTALITY
- TRANSFORMING PURCHASING POSTURE WITHIN THE SUPPLY CHAIN
Faculty - Mr.Michael Gozzo
Michael W. Gozzo is President and Founder of THE TOTAL BUSINESS CONSULTING GROUP, LLC., a firm specializing in counseling and education of all levels of management in the areas of Supply Chain, Lean Manufacturing, Demand Flow Technology, Just-In-Time, Total Quality Control, Manufacturing Systems Implementation, Inventory Control, and Production/Operations Management.
Recent involvement with Silicon Valley leader’s in Supply Chain Management, Lean Manufacturing practices and ISO includes Cisco, Infineon, Sunrise Telecom, PerkinElmer, Philips Semi-conductor, and SanDisk. Mike Gozzo went to Germany to train operational personnel at Lufthansa Air Cargo. He has been associated with Lean practices: pull systems, quick change, 5-S, VMI, cell design, and others.
Mike has traveled and worked extensively in Canada, England, Hong Kong, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Indonesia, South Africa, Thailand, Bahrain, U.A.E., Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Taiwan.
He has an Executive Program Masters Business Administration Degree from the University of New Haven, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Connecticut.
He is certified as CPIM & CSCP by the Association of Operations Management (APICS)/Association of Supply Chain Management (ASCM).
Mr. Gozzo is the co-author of "Made In America - The Total Business Concept" and several other books and numerous published articles. He has developed over 50 courses that can be customized for the respective client.