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Each MGI home study course contains Skill Development Excercises that can be e-mailed, mailed, or faxed to your personal instructor/partner who is ready to process your exercises and answer any questions you may have.

Computer Applications in Purchasing: In this course you will learn about the growing managerial role of purchasing: its opportunities and potential, how to structure your computerized purchasing system, open purchase order: getting rid of the paper, receiving and accounts payable, making the move to paperless purchasing, and system requirements

Successful Negotiating for Purchasing Managers: This course will help you to enhance and optimize your personal purchasing negotiation skills. You will learn about the benefits of successful purchasing negotiation, techniques of effective negotiation: what you bring with you, how to write your personal negotiating success script, practical negotiating tactics, how to negotiate and achieve cost savings, and how to improve your internal purchasing position. An appendix includes your personal negotiating planning kit and negotiation evaluation kit.
(Course no. E24, Time to Complete: 25 hours, 2.5 CEUs)

Successful Negotiating for Purchasing Managers: Successful Supplier Certification: In this course you will learn how to set up, monitor, and maintain an effective supplier certification program. This includes criteria for selecting suppliers, how to conduct a basic supplier quality evaluation, how to conduct supplier surverys and audits, statistics and the measurement of incoming material, effective supplier agreements, the phases of certification, educating your suppliers in your quality philosophy, how to measure ongoing supplier performance, and how to install and maintain your supplier improvement program.
(Course no. E27, Time to Complete: 25 hours, 2.5 CEUs)

Price: $259.95 List / $214.95 Prepaid

Using ISO 9000 To Measure, Monitor, Upgrade and Improve Supplier Performance: ISO 9000 was developed to provide a baseline for supplier quality. This course will show you how to begin your ISO 9000 supplier improvement program, build a basic supplier quality program, conduct supplier surveys and audits. You will learn about statistics and the measurement of incoming material, ISO 9000 requirements for measuring supplier performance, effective supplier communications, educating your suppliers in your ISO 9000-based quality philosophy, statistical control & supplier process improvement, and how to install and maintain your supplier improvement program.
(Course no. E36, Time to Complete: 25 hours, 2.5 CEUs)