Purchasing - Analysing and Development (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Objective

The purpose of the Course:
Purchasing is a major part of todays business. No company can survive and be successful without its supplier network. In this course you will recognize the possibilities and challenges of purchasing and develop them as part of successful business. You will grow your know-how as systematic and professional purchasing and business developer!

Course competences:
Procurement skills, Engineering practice

Learning outcomes:
In this course you will learn how to analyze and develop purchasing as part of business development. You will recognize and try different analyzing methods to define current state of purchasing. You will also learn how to make decisions on what and how to develop purchasing based on the current state analysis. You will also get understanding of measuring purchasing, its meaning and key metrics. You will consider and understand the possibilities of digitalization, analytics and different systems in purchasing development.
In this course you will learn to recognize development possibilities of purchasing widely both in operative and strategic level.

Content

Course contents are:
Systematic development of purchasing as part of business development
Analyzing methods in purchasing (spend analysis, ABC-analysis, value analysis and tail management)
Developing purchasing process
Measuring purchasing
Digitalization, analytics and systems in purchasing

Materials

Kurssin materiaali koostuu työtilassa olevista luentodioista sekä tieteellisistä artikkeleista, tutkimuksista ja videoista.

Kurssikirjana toimii:
Sanna Nieminen. 2025. Hyvä hankinta, kestävä bisnes. Alma Insights. (Tulossa e-kirjaksi JAMKin kirjastoon. Ilmestysmispäivä 25.5.2025.)

Lisäksi rinnalla voi käyttää kirjaa:
van Weele, Arjan. 2018. Purchasing and Supply Chain Management. Cengage Learning. (e-kirjana JAMKin kirjastossa)

Teaching methods

Opintojakso sisältää 2 lähiopetuspäivää sekä 2 verkkotapaamista erillisen suunnitelman mukaisesti. Opiskelija valitsee oman suoritustapansa (lähipäiväopiskelija /verkko-opiskelija) koulutuksen alkaessa.
Lähiopetuspäivät pidetään Helsingissä ja verkkotapaamiset zoom-verkkoympäristössä.
Opintojaksolle kuuluu lisäksi itseopiskelua verkossa sekä oppimistehtävät.
Materiaali löytyy verkkotyötilassa itsenäiseen opiskeluun.

Yksityiskohtainen toteutustapa kuvataan opintojakson aloitusvaiheessa.

Employer connections

Opintojaksolla on mahdollisesti vieraileva luennoitsija.

Completion alternatives

Hyväksilukemisen menettelytavat kuvataan tutkintosäännössä ja opinto-oppaassa. Opintojakson opettaja antaa lisätietoa mahdollisista opntojakson erityiskäytänteistä.

Student workload

Laskennallinen kuormittavuus on opintopistemäärä kertaa 27 tuntia.
Esim. 5-opintopisteen opintojaksolla kuormittavuus on 135h.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Adequate 1: Student recognizes the course topics, understands their meaning and demonstrates competences as per learning outcomes of the course.

Satisfactory 2: Student recognizes the course topics, understands their meaning and demonstrates competences as per learning outcomes of the course. Additionally student is able to apply learnings in purchasing development.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Good 3: Student recognizes the course topics, understands their meaning and demonstrates competences as per learning outcomes of the course. Additionally student is able to apply learnings in purchasing development in a systematic way.

Very Good 4: Student recognizes the course topics, understands their meaning and demonstrates competences as per learning outcomes of the course. Additionally student is able to apply learnings in purchasing development in a systematic way and is able to argue the decisions from operative and/or strategic perspective.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Excellent 5: Student recognizes the course topics, understands their meaning and demonstrates competences as per learning outcomes of the course. Additionally student is able to apply learnings in purchasing development in a systematic and innovative way and is able to argue the decisions from operative and/or strategic perspective.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Student recognizes the course topics, understands their meaning and demonstrates competences as per learning outcomes of the course.

Qualifications

Basic understanding of purchasing and its role and meaning in business.

Further information

Opintojakson arviointi perustuu kontaktipäiville osallistumiseen tai korvaavien tehtävien suorittamiseen ja oppimistehtäviin. Arviointi toteutetaan asteikolla: hyväksytty / hylätty.

Poissaolo kontaktipäiviltä korvataan lisätehtävin.