Curricula

Objective

EUR-ACE Knowledge and understanding: Student can analyze and develop purchasing as part of business development. Student understands the development potential both on operational and strategic level.

EUR-ACE Engineering analysis: Student can apply appropriate analyzing methods for current state analysis and decision making as well as for creating development plans.

EUR-ACE Investigations: Student recognizes different information systems in purchasing and when they are utilized.

Content

The main content will include
- systematic development of purchasing as part of the business development
- analyzing methods incl. spend-analysis, ABC-analysis, value analysis, tail management
- purchasing process development
- performance measurement in purchasing
- information systems in purchasing

Qualifications

The students are able to find information independently, make basic excel calculation and to prepare reports. They have the basic knowledge of logistics processes and purchasing.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Excellent (5): Student has attained an excellent level of course objectives and can apply them into practice in innovative manner.
Very good (4): Student has attained very good level of course objectives and can apply them into practice.
Good (3): Student has gained understanding of course objectives and can utilize them in practice.
Satisfactory (2): Student has gained knowledge of course objectives and can utilize them partly in practice.
Sufficient (1): Student has gained knowledge of course objectives but faces challenges to utilize them in practice.