This is the professional leap you were waiting for. The Postgraduate diploma in Performance and Auditing for Purchasing Management will take your career to the next level" 

Why Study at TECH?

TECH is the world's largest 100% online business school. It is an elite business school, with a model based on the highest academic standards. A world-class centre for intensive managerial skills training.   

TECH is a university at the forefront of technology, and puts all its resources at the student's disposal to help them achieve entrepreneurial success"

At TECH Global University

Innovation

The university offers an online learning model that combines the latest educational technology with the most rigorous teaching methods. A unique method with the highest international recognition that will provide students with the keys to develop in a rapidly-evolving world, where innovation must be every entrepreneur’s focus.

"Microsoft Europe Success Story", for integrating the innovative, interactive multi-video system.  

The Highest Standards

Admissions criteria at TECH are not economic. Students don't need to make a large investment to study at this university. However, in order to obtain a qualification from TECH, the student's intelligence and ability will be tested to their limits. The institution's academic standards are exceptionally high...  

95% of TECH students successfully complete their studies.

Networking

Professionals from countries all over the world attend TECH, allowing students to establish a large network of contacts that may prove useful to them in the future.  

100,000+ executives trained each year, 200+ different nationalities.

Empowerment

Students will grow hand in hand with the best companies and highly regarded and influential professionals. TECH has developed strategic partnerships and a valuable network of contacts with major economic players in 7 continents.  

500+ collaborative agreements with leading companies.

Talent

This program is a unique initiative to allow students to showcase their talent in the business world. An opportunity that will allow them to voice their concerns and share their business vision. 

After completing this program, TECH helps students show the world their talent. 

Multicultural Context

While studying at TECH, students will enjoy a unique experience. Study in a multicultural context. In a program with a global vision, through which students can learn about the operating methods in different parts of the world, and gather the latest information that best adapts to their business idea. 

TECH students represent more than 200 different nationalities.   

Learn with the best

In the classroom, TECH teaching staff discuss how they have achieved success in their companies, working in a real, lively, and dynamic context. Teachers who are fully committed to offering a quality specialization that will allow students to advance in their career and stand out in the business world. 

Teachers representing 20 different nationalities. 

TECH strives for excellence and, to this end, boasts a series of characteristics that make this university unique:   

Analysis

TECH explores the student’s critical side, their ability to question things, their problem-solving skills, as well as their interpersonal skills.  

Academic Excellence

TECH offers students the best online learning methodology. The university combines the Relearning method (a postgraduate learning methodology with the highest international rating) with the Case Study. A complex balance between tradition and state-of-the-art, within the context of the most demanding academic itinerary.  

TECH is the world’s largest online university. It currently boasts a portfolio of more than 10,000 university postgraduate programs. And in today's new economy, volume + technology = a ground-breaking price. This way, TECH ensures that studying is not as expensive for students as it would be at another university.  

At TECH, you will have access to the most rigorous and up-to-date case studies in the academic community”

TECH Global University uses the most modern educational methodology, based on Relearning, so that its students effectively acquire all the knowledge imparted. For this reason, this program motivates its students to grow in the business field of logistics and Marketing with a complete program about purchasing management and its audits. 

TECH knows how important this study is for you. That's why you're going to have access to top-notch teaching materials, developed by the best possible teaching staff" 

Syllabus

The Postgraduate diploma in Performance and Auditing for Purchasing Management of TECH Global University prepares its students for the most demanding business challenges when it comes to managing and auditing the purchasing process of a company. 

The content of the course is developed with the current needs of the market in mind, as well as the most necessary competencies for future managers who will occupy the most privileged positions in this field of work. 

For this reason, throughout the 375 hours of the course, the student analyzes a multitude of practical cases through individual practice and teamwork, so the teaching is contextual and transversal, directly linked to the business reality. 

This Postgraduate diploma takes place over 6 months and is divided into 3 modules:

Module 1. Management and Leadership 
Module 2. Logistics and Economic Management  
Module 3. Performance and Auditing  

A unique, key, and decisive educational experience to boost your professional development and make the definitive leap"

Where, When and How is it Taught?

TECH offers the possibility of developing this Postgraduate diploma in Performance and Auditing for Purchasing Management completely online. Over the course of 6 months, you will be able to access all the contents of this program at any time, allowing you to self-manage your study time.

Module 1. Managementand Leadership

1.1. General Management 

1.1.1. Integrating Functional Strategies into the Global Business Strategies
1.1.2. Management Policy and Processes
1.1.3. Society and Enterprise

1.2. Strategic Management

1.2.1. Establish the Strategic Position: Mission, Vision and Values
1.2.2. Developing New Businesses
1.2.3. Growing and Consolidating Companies

1.3. Competitive Strategy 

1.3.1. Market Analysis
1.3.2. Sustainable Competitive Advantage
1.3.3. Return on Investment

1.4. Corporate Strategy

1.4.1. Driving Corporate Strategy
1.4.2. Pacing Corporate Strategy
1.4.3. Framing Corporate Strategy

1.5. Planning and Strategy 

1.5.1. The Relevance of Strategic Direction in the Management Control Process
1.5.2. Analysis of the Environment and the Organization
1.5.3. Lean Management

1.6. Talent Management

1.6.1. Managing Human Capital
1.6.2. Environment, Strategy, and Metrics
1.6.3. Innovation in People Management

1.7. Management and Leadership Development 

1.7.1. Leadership and Leadership Styles
1.7.2. Motivation
1.7.3. Emotional Intelligence
1.7.4. Efficient Meetings

1.8. Change Management 

1.8.1. Performance Analysis
1.8.2. Leading Change. Resistance to Change
1.8.3. Managing Change Processes
1.8.4. Managing Multicultural Teams

1.9. Negotiation

1.9.1. Intercultural Negotiation
1.9.2. Negotiation Focuses
1.9.3. Effective Negotiation Techniques
1.9.4. Restructuring

Module 2. Logistics and Economic Management

2.1. Financial Diagnosis

2.1.1. Indicators for Analyzing Financial Statements
2.1.2. Profitability Analysis
2.1.3. Economic and Financial Profitability of a Company

2.2. Economic Analysis of Decisions 

2.2.1. Budget Control
2.2.2. Competition Analysis. Comparative Analysis
2.2.3. Decision-Making. Business Investment or Divestment

2.3. Investment Valuation and Portfolio Management 

2.3.1. Profitability of Investment Projects and Value Creation
2.3.2. Models for Evaluating Investment Projects
2.3.3. Sensitivity Analysis, Scenario Development, and Decision Trees

2.4. Financial Management for Purchasing Management

2.4.1. Multiplier Effect of Purchases on Profits
2.4.2. Profitability and Cost Reduction
2.4.3. Opportunity Cost of Assets

2.5. Economic Control of Purchases

2.5.1. KPIs, Key Purchasing Management Indicators
2.5.2. Impact on Total Cost of Proper KPIs Management
2.5.3. Economic and Purchasing Control Scorecard

2.6. Warehouse, Stock and Logistics Management

2.6.1. Purchasing Logistics Management
2.6.2. Stocks Management
2.6.3. Warehouse Management

2.7. Supply Chain Management

2.7.1. Costs and Efficiency of the Operations Chain
2.7.2. Change in Demand Patterns
2.7.3. Change in Operations Strategy

2.8. Logistical Processes

2.8.1. Organization and Management by Processes
2.8.2. Procurement, Production, Distribution 
2.8.3. Quality, Quality Costs, and Tools
2.8.4. After-Sale Service

2.9. Logistics and Customers

2.9.1. Demand Analysis and Forecasting
2.9.2. Sales Forecasting and Planning
2.9.3. Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replacement

2.10. International Logistics

2.10.1. Customs, Export and Import Processes
2.10.2. Methods and Means of International Payment
2.10.3. International Logistics Platforms

Module 3. Performance and Auditing 

3.1. General Aspects of Business Management Indicators

3.1.1. Functions of Management Indicators
3.1.2. Indicator Panel and Balance Score Card
3.1.3. Logistics Indicators

3.2. Starting Material Purchase Indicators 

3.2.1. Efficiency Indicators
3.2.2. Economic Indicators
3.2.3. Internal Customer Relations Indicators
3.2.4. Procurement Effectiveness Indicators
3.2.5. Procurement Efficiency Indicators
3.2.6. Purchasing Objectives

3.3. Service Purchasing Indicators

3.3.1. Economic Indicators
3.3.2. Procurement Effectiveness Indicators
3.3.3. Efficiency Indicators
3.3.4. Relationship Indicators
3.3.5. Indicators of Relationship with our Internal Customers

3.4. Other Indicators 

3.4.1. Performance Indicators
3.4.2. Purchasing Team Productivity Indicators

3.5. Purchasing Audit

3.5.1. Audit Objectives
3.5.2. Scope of the Audit in Terms of Purchase Control
3.5.3. Internal Audits, Training, and Contractor Policies and Procedures

3.6. Benchmarking in Purchasing Management

3.6.1. Types of Benchmarking
3.6.2. How to Benchmark the Market
3.6.3. Benefits and Advantages of the Application of Benchmarking in a Purchasing Department
3.6.4. Benchmarking Measurement

You will be the manager you crave thanks to the advanced auditing techniques you will learn in this program"