E-Commerce: The Supply Chain Super Tool

Technological advances and innovations create extraordinary new possibilities, many of which are totally unexpected. The ramifications spread quickly throughout all industries and professions. Such is the case with e-commerce and its impact on buyers, purchasing managers and the supply chain professionals in your industry.

The impact of e-commerce is accelerating, creating demands for changes in purchasing processes and procurement procedures. In exchange, when you know how to harness and manage its power and anticipate its potential, you can make e-commerce a powerful new supply chain super tool for your organization. Your understanding of e-commerce in the supply chain process has a measurable impact on your performance. Those who fail to keep pace will miss significant opportunities to gain and maintain a competitive advantage in the purchasing and procurement arena.

Be certain that you have a total grasp of the essentials and potential of e-commerce as a supply chain super tool. Don’t miss this two-day workshop that covers and forecasts what you need to know now and do next as the "e-commerce purchasing" professional in your company.

Who Should Attend

  • Professionals who deal with the "Supply Chain"
  • Associate Buyers
  • Buyers
  • Senior Buyers
  • Managers in and responsible for the Procurement/Supply organization
  • Managers and Administrators with Procurement Supplier interface

Benefits:

  • Learn how e-commerce is increasingly impacting your job and how to adjust to the change
  • Explore key organizational changes you can expect to happen for sure
  • Find out how the process of negotiations in purchasing is changing
  • Learn 10 important implementation strategies you need to know
  • Gain an understanding of DCM and CPFR – the next evolution
  • Find out how to thrive and survive in the new global supply chain revolution

Course Contents

  • What E-Commerce Really Is
  • How E-Commerce Works
  • Five (5) Ways E-Commerce Impacts You and Your Purchasing Performance
  • The Way You do Business: How it has Changed
  • Organizational Changes You Can Expect
  • Essential E-Commerce Tools You Will Need
  • New Methods of Buying You Need to Use
  • The Impact of E-Commerce on Legal Documents and Contracts
  • UCITA: Will It Replace the UCC
  • Ten Implementation Strategies You Need to Know
  • Demand Chain Management (DCM) and Collaborative Planning Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) – The Next Evolution