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Purchasing Fundamentals

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Fee: $269

Contact Hours: 24

Discover and master the fundamentals of purchasing by understanding your strategic and tactical roles as a purchasing practitioner. Improve your company's bottom-line profitability by learning and implementing key concepts such as negotiation, supplier sourcing and qualification, outsourcing and make-or-buy analysis. Learn the basics of supplier partnerships, capital budgeting and green buying. In this online course, you will learn how to define internal customer needs, generate purchase requisitions and purchase orders, expedite, trace and receive supplier deliveries, maintain effective purchasing records and create and manage various purchasing budgets. You'll learn about business law, contracts, leasing, Six Sigma and total quality management (TQM). You will also learn how to recruit, select and evaluate purchasing personnel, and learn the importance of business ethics.

 

Class ID

Instructor-Moderated Start Dates

Online Anytime

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25687

Sep 16, 2026

6 Weeks Access

Asynchronous Online

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25688

Oct 14, 2026

6 Weeks Access

Asynchronous Online

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25775

Nov 11, 2026

6 Weeks Access

Asynchronous Online

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26026

Dec 16, 2026

6 Weeks Access

Asynchronous Online

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Class ID

Self-Guided

Online Anytime

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22864

No instructor, start anytime.

90 Days Access

Access begins on day of registration.

Extensions not permitted.

Self-Guided Online

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