Training Classes / Calendar
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| 3/9/2010 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM |
| Location: Portland State Business Accelerator |
Overview:
Small and medium businesses play a critical role in the economy and its growth. They are critical to many large companies and their success. But all too often, the management of these enterprises overlooks the dire need to implement solid systems and best practices into their operations. This class will introduce some systems and best practices that are commonly accepted, essential and recommended for the success of a procurement department. The implementation is relatively inexpensive. Most important is the commitment to develop a strategic plan, and to the time it will take to implement the appropriate best practices.
How You Will Benefit:
By the end of the course, participants will gain:
- A firm grasp of the essential building blocks of a purchasing/supplier system
- Motivation and confidence to review the existing purchasing systems with the goal to implement necessary best practices
- Insight into how best practices will improve supplier performance and increase the companies economic profit.
- Awareness of a variety of proven best practices and basic building blocks
Course Outline:
- Introduction (.5 hours)
- Purchasing building blocks
- How to save money
- Best Supply Chain Practices (1.5 hours)
- How they work
- Why they’re important
- Assess Your Own Performance (1 hour)
- Establishing a baseline
- Identifying ‘low hanging fruit’
- Create an Improvement Plan (1 hour)
Who Should Attend:
Anybody involved with suppliers, no prerequisites required
- Purchasing functions of SME
- Senior level and operations management
- Quality personell
Cost:
Half-day class
Cost: $125 (includes class, all class materials, and snacks)
Instructor Bio: Anja Bump
Anja Schnurer-Bump is the CEO and Founder of MONTGOMERY Strategic Consulting, LLC. She has over 14 years of successful supplier management experience, including quality audits (she is a certified lead auditor), sales, marketing, and engineering. She has weathered the ups and downs of the semiconductor industry, as well as the tightly regulated medical industry. As a keen negotiator, quality remains number one in her mind.
Her corporate experience includes IBM, HP, Siltronic Ag (a German-owned wafer fab), Entegris, and Biotronik (medical supplier of implantable pacemakers and defibrillators). She has lived best practices for supply chain at large companies, and has implemented them at smaller ones. Best practices have made her life easier and she is currently working on spreading the joy to as many organizations as she can.
Anja holds a MS in Inorganic Chemistry from Portland State University and a Diploma in General Chemistry from Germany. German born, she is still fluent in German and English. She also manages to order a good dinner in French. She is a traveler, runner, and photographer. |
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