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DESCRIPTION:Overview:  Small and medium businesses play a critical role in the economy and its growth. They are critical to many large companies and their success. But all too often, the management of these enterprises overlooks the dire need to implement solid systems and best practices into their operations.This class will introduce some systems and best practices that are commonly accepted, essential and recommended for the success of a procurement department. The implementation is relatively inexpensive.Most important is the commitment to develop a strategic plan, and to the time it will take to implement the appropriate best practices.
How You Will Benefit:By the end of the course, participants will gain:

A firm grasp of the essential building blocks of a purchasing/supplier system 
Motivation and confidence to review the existing purchasing systems with the goal to implement necessary best practices 
Insight into how best practices will improve supplier performance and increase the companies economic profit. 
Awareness of a variety of proven best practices and basic building blocks
Course Outline:

Introduction (.5 hours) 

Purchasing building blocks 
How to save money
Best Supply Chain Practices (1.5 hours) 

How they work 
Why they’re important
Assess Your Own Performance (1 hour) 

Establishing a baseline 
Identifying ‘low hanging fruit’
Create an Improvement Plan (1 hour) 

Interactive case study
Who Should Attend:Anybody involved with suppliers, no prerequisites required 

Purchasing functions of SME 
Senior level and operations management 
Quality personell
Cost:Half-day classCost: $125 (includes class, all class materials, and snacks)Instructor Bio:Anja BumpAnja Schnurer-Bump is the CEO and Founder of MONTGOMERY Strategic Consulting, LLC.She has over 14 years of successful supplier management experience, including quality audits (she is a certified lead auditor), sales, marketing, and engineering. She has weathered the ups and downs of the semiconductor industry, as well as the tightly regulated medical industry. As a keen negotiator, quality remains number one in her mind. 
Her corporate experience includes IBM, HP, Siltronic Ag (a German-owned wafer fab), Entegris, and Biotronik (medical supplier of implantable pacemakers and defibrillators). She has lived best practices for supply chain at large companies, and has implemented them at smaller ones. Best practices have made her life easier and she is currently working on spreading the joy to as many organizations as she can.
Anja holds a MS in Inorganic Chemistry from Portland State University and a Diploma in General Chemistry from Germany. German born, she is still fluent in German and English. She also manages to order a good dinner in French. She is a traveler, runner, and photographer.
LOCATION:Location: Portland State Business Accelerator
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:Optimizing Your Supply Chain - Best Practices for Small to Medium Size Enterprises - 4 hour Class
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