Program Number: 655953
✅ In today’s business environment, purchasing and procurement play a strategic role in cost control, operational efficiency, and organizational sustainability.
Organizations that manage procurement effectively achieve better performance, reduced risk, and stronger supplier relationships.
✅ This practical seminar is designed for professionals who want to optimize purchasing and procurement processes, enhance cost control, and build strategic, value-driven supplier partnerships.
🔎 What You Will Gain from the Seminar
Participants will gain modern knowledge, practical skills, and tools that can be immediately applied within their organization, aiming to:
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improve procurement efficiency and effectiveness,
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strengthen cost control and spending optimization,
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reduce procurement and supply-related risks,
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and enhance the overall value procurement delivers to the organization.
What You Will Learn
During the seminar, participants will gain structured knowledge, strategic insight, and hands-on skills covering the full spectrum of purchasing and procurement activities, with direct application to real organizational needs.
🔹 The Role and Strategic Importance of Purchasing & Procurement
Understanding procurement as a strategic business function. How purchasing and procurement contribute to competitiveness, sustainability, and value creation.
🔹 Modern Purchasing & Procurement Management Practices
Introduction to contemporary procurement methodologies and best practices. Aligning procurement strategy with organizational goals.
🔹 Supplier Selection, Evaluation & Development
Criteria and processes for selecting suppliers, evaluating performance and quality, and developing long-term supplier capabilities and partnerships.
🔹 Negotiation Techniques & Contract Management
Core and advanced negotiation techniques in procurement. Managing contracts, terms, and conditions while ensuring mutual value and compliance.
🔹 Cost Control & Spend Optimization
How to analyze procurement costs, identify saving opportunities, and implement spend optimization strategies without compromising quality or reliability.
🔹 Risk Management & Quality Assurance in Procurement
Identifying procurement and supply chain risks. Applying risk mitigation strategies and quality assurance practices across the supply process.
🔹 Building Long-Term, High-Value Supplier Relationships
Transforming transactional supplier relationships into strategic partnerships based on trust, transparency, and shared growth.
🎯 Who Should Attend?
✔️ Purchasing and procurement professionals
✔️ Supply Chain & Operations Managers
✔️ Finance professionals and managers
✔️ Professionals involved in procurement and supply chain management
📍 Date: 13/05/2026
🕒 Time: 08:30 – 16:30
📍 Training Method: Face-to-face
Why Participate
Effective purchasing and procurement management is a strategic investment for organizations seeking cost efficiency, resilience, and long-term competitiveness.
Through this seminar, participants will gain practical tools to elevate procurement from an operational function to a strategic business driver.
📢 Upgrade your purchasing and procurement strategy and strengthen your organization’s sustainability and competitiveness.
Information & Registrations
📩 For more information and registrations, please contact:
📞 22 253485
💡 If the company and/or participants are not registered on the ERMIS platform, please contact us at the above number for guidance and support.
Steps to Register for the Program through the ANAD HERMES Online Platform
- Visit https://ermis.anad.org.cy and log in using your company’s (employer’s) username and password.
- From the home page select: Participation in training programs.
- Select: Lifelong learning.
- Select: Multi-Business Training Programs – Standard.
- Search for the program (#655953) and select Actions.
(To search faster, press Ctrl + F and type the program number.) - Select at the top left: Application for participation.
- Select: Employer application for participation and authorization for payment of a grant.
- Click Add participant, select the participant and indicate their job title.
- Click Add and close, then click Submit.
