Purchasing & Procurement Analyses for Management Consultants

Description
Purchasing & Procurement Analyses for Management Consultants
A practical guide on how to analyze purchasing activities during consulting projects
During Consulting Projects a lot of attention will be devoted to Purchasing & Procurement. Usually, this area generates big cost reductions and helps improve liquidity. Finding potential savings is not always easy and requires a well-organized approach to company purchases. Luckily, there are a lot of techniques and frameworks that will help you in a structured way to look for savings and potential improvements in liquidity. In this presentation, I will teach you how to perform fast and efficiently different types of analyses in Purchasing & Procurement.
In the presentation you will learn the following things:
1. General information about Purchasing & Procurement.
2. Useful frameworks for analyzing Purchasing & Procurement.
3. How to find ways to cut costs in Purchasing & Procurement.
4. How to identify potential ways to improve your liquidity, especially quick wins.
5. How to estimate in Excel the potential impact of proposed changes.
I will show you many useful frameworks that will help you impact the cash flow and the profit & loss. You will see how to reduce inventory, and costs, improve payables, and deal with seasonality.
You will also see the power of modularity.