New work in purchasing
Making work in purchasing fit for the future!
Basics
- The New Work concept
Personal responsibility & self-organization
- Independent time & task planning
- Virtual communication channels
- Benefit
- Possibilities
- Toolbox
Hybrid workplaces
- Definition of
- Benefit
- Influence on labor productivity
- Influence on target achievement
Innovation spaces
- Definition of
- Benefits & advantages of temporary workstations
Agile working in purchasing
- Advantages & added value
- Project-related work
- Adaptation of purchasing to a changing market situation
Dealing with remote work
- Tools for virtual coordination
- Flexible working models
Digital workflows
- Importance
- Internal and external
Purchasing as a driver of innovation
- Creativity techniques and methods
- Role as a driver of innovation:in
- Interface manager:in
New management role
- From leader to coach
- Relationship management with suppliers
Self-organization
- Self-organized teams
- Role of the manager in self-organized teams
Requirements for the: buyer of the future
- Relationship management
- Advanced software knowledge
- Data Science
Addressing potential new employees
- Communication to new talents
- Addressing high potentials
Values
- Change
- "New" values
ESG in purchasing
- Influence of purchasing on corporate social and environmental responsibility
- Sustainability in purchasing
Corporate social responsibility in purchasing
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.
- Getting to know the content and interrelationships of the changing world of work for purchasing.
- Receive valuable practical tips for problems in day-to-day operations.
- Future-oriented strategies and methods are taught.
- Working on cases from your own practice ensures that the knowledge can be put into practice.
Trainer input, group and individual exercises, best-practice examples, work aids and checklists, discussion, exchange of experience, tried-and-tested models.
For specialists and managers in purchasing, procurement, supply chain management, logistics, as well as team/group/projectproject managers from the areas of purchasing, SCM, logistics, procurement and production who want to get to grips with this subject.
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- Customized training courses
- Direct application in practice
- Efficient use of time and resources
Further recommendations for "New Work in Purchasing"
Start dates and details

Wednesday, 25.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 26.11.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Monday, May 10, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, May 11, 2027
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.