Mastering Your Indirect and Service Spend Categories: Leveraging Applied Best Practices to Contain Costs
Supply managers for service sector firms and those responsible for indirect spend categories in manufacturing require skill-set specialization. This new University of Wisconsin-Madison Executive Education course reveals the critical details and expertise necessary to succeed in a competitive environment.
This course will expand your capabilities to:
- Apply strategic sourcing to indirect and service spend
- Assess critical supplier selection criteria
- Assure supplier quality performance in the indirect categories, such as IT procurement, software development and services
- Implement best-practice examples of successful RFP, SOW and SLA processes
- Create and manage contracts effectively
- Develop system metrics and promote compliance to rein in maverick spending
- Employ technological enablers that drive down cost and increase efficiency
- Analyze options to outsourcing the indirect spend: what to consider and how to choose
Who should attend
This course is designed for buying group members of non-manufacturing and service firms, as well as experienced buyers, agents and managers responsible for indirect and service buys.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison, as a member of the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), authorizes this course for 1.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or 14 hours.
dtransue@exed.wisc.edu