Day 1 - Defining Cost Savings Opportunities
- Reducing The Cost Of Purchased Goods And Services
- Contract’s Savings Impact On The Bottom Line
- Understanding Where To Focus Your Efforts
- Supplier Pricing Models
- Develop Opportunity Hypotheses
- Cost Reduction Reporting Procedure
- Continuous Improvement Skill Sets
Day 2 - Performing Price Analysis
- Difference Between Cost And Price Analysis
- Selection Tool
- Methods Of Price Analysis
- Historical Analysis
- Using Price Indexes
- Calculating Change
- Developing the Organization’s Contract Price Index
Day 3 - Performing Cost Analysis
- Methods Of Cost Analysis
- Major Elements Of Cost
- What And How Important Are Supplier Overheads
- Developing “Should Costs”
- Requesting Supplier Cost Info
- Issues In Analyzing Supplier Cost Breakdown
- How much Profit should the Supplier make
Day 4 - Other Important Valuation Criteria
- Industry Analysis
- Global Industrial Labor Rates
- Working With Currency Exchange Rates
- Total Costs Of Ownership Models
- Reengineering Processes to Reduce Cost
- Cost Volume Profit Analysis
- Defining Value Analysis?
Day 5 - Controlling Contract Pricing in Volatile Markets
- Dealing in Volatile Economic Situations
- Contract Economic Adjustment Clauses
- Continuous Improvement Methods
- Early Supplier Involvement
- Reducing Waste In The Supply Chain
- Savings Reporting
- Get The Big Savings Now