Supply Management Fundamentals
(formerly Basics for Buyers)

Lee Buddress, PhD, C.P.M. 

February 25 & 26, 2010

7:30-8:00 am Registration/8:00 am-5:00 pm Seminar (with 1-hour lunch) each day
Continuing Education Hours: 16

Registration Deadline:  Register by February 12, 2010 to ensure your spot.  Registrations after this date will be on a space available basis.  If sufficient registrations are not received by this date, the seminar will be canceled.
 

Seminar Description:

The fundamental objective of purchasing is to develop a supply base that creates competitive advantage for the organization.  Supply Management expands that role to encompass other interdependent functions to create a supply system that creates competitive advantage across these various functions.  This program is intended to introduce the foundational knowledge, practices and procedures necessary to accomplish that goal.

What You Will Learn 

• The Importance of Supply Management
• Fundamentals of Purchasing Management
• Specifications
• Supplier Selection
• Legal Agency and Contracts
• Managing Supplier Relationships
• Fundamentals of Inventory Management
• Inventory Carrying Cost
• Economic Order Quantities
• Setting Inventory Levels
• Fundamentals of Logistics Management
• Transportation Issues in Supply Management
• Third Party Logistics
• Supply System
• Technology Impacts on Supply Systems
• Performance Measurement and Evaluation
• Top Management and Supply Management

Speaker:  Lee Buddress, Ph.D., C.P.M.

Lee Buddress, Ph.D., C.P.M., is Director of the Supply and Logistics Management Program at Portland State University.  He also teaches in the Master of International Management Program where he is responsible for the four-course Global Supply Management specialization.  In addition, he has over 20 years of industrial experience in purchasing and supply management.  He is a member of ISM and several other supply management professional associations.  He has received teaching awards from the PSU School of Business Administration and School of Engineering as well as awards for outstanding contributions to the purchasing and supply management profession.

Fees: $625 Member / $725Non Member

Save $25 per person when registering 3 or more people from the same company at the same time.

Cancellations received more than 5 business days prior to event date are refunded full fee minus $75 administrative fee. Cancellations received 5 business days or less prior to event date will receive 50% refund. No refunds for no shows and same day cancellations