Value Increasing Strategies in Procurement and PurchasingLaajuus (4 ECTS)

Objective

Objectives

Classifying purchases and profiting from it
Measuring efficiency
Leveraging Factors of Supply Chain Management
Profiting from IT-Systems
Advances risk analysis
From Gap-analysis to Improvement areas to Improvement plan

Additional objectives
Meaningful outsourcing, its costs, agreements and management models

Content

Learning contents
By the end of the course, students will:

* be familiar with the classification of purchasing and its strategic use
* know different ways to measure efficiency and recocnize competition factors in the supply chain
* understand the meaning of demand and supply management
* be familiar with modern solutions and operating modes in purchasing and supply chain management

Skills contents

The student will be able to:
*use IT-technology to drive efficiency and quality
*make a risk analysis and use it and gap-analysis to locate improvement areas
* make well argumented propositions for the improvement of procurement and purchasing functions in his target company

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree
Preliminary Readings

Further information

Preliminary reading
Lectures, class discussions, group work, individual assignments.