Seminare – Global Sourcing
Negotiation Skills for Purchasing
Skills, techniques and tools you need to negotiate effectively
Objectives
You understand and practice the negotiation process and develop or improve important negotiating skills that will enable you to negotiate with more confidence.
Target Group
(Newly appointed) buyers, purchasing/procurement officers as well as executives in materials management and logistics functions negotiating with suppliers Training
Methods
Short presentations, group sessions, exercises, videotaped role plays
Please note that when booking the online seminar, the participant's e-mail address is required for sending the dial-in link!!
Trainer
Benedikt Elles
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Online
382430910 |
1.395,– €
Plus 19% VAT |
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Hamburg
352503026 |
1.495,– €
Plus 19% VAT |
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Online
382530904 |
1.495,– €
Plus 19% VAT |
Negotiation in the Purchasing Process
- What is negotiating?
- How to communicate properly in negotiations
- Active listening as a key part of communication
First Things First: Planning and Preparing Your Negotiation
- Establishing negotiation targets and objectives
- Identifying important facts about your supplier
- How to use a preparation checklist
- The art of successful negotiation: What leads to success or failure?
Fundamental Steps in the Negotiation Process
- Opening moves: how to start
- Body language
- Using the right questioning techniques
- Opening offers and counteroffers
- Offer submission: active listening
- Successful price negotiations
- The follow-up of a negotiation
Employing Effective Negotiation Techniques
- Improving preparatory skills
- How to be more precise during the negotiation
- Questioning techniques
- Giving and taking
- Argumentation techniques
- Summarizing the results
Useful Arguments
- The value proposition for buyers and suppliers
- Neutralizing objectives presented by the counterpart
- Dealing with objections/pretexts
- Dealing with "dead-end situations"
The Win-Win-Approach: Requirements and Process
- Benefits of the win-win-approach
- Mutual success: seeking common ground
- Developing different options
- Preparing the negotiation process
- Determining the supplier’s motives, objectives and constraints
- Building trust
- Showing flexibility