Purchasing controlling

How to increase your purchasing performance!

This training is held in German.
The key to optimizing purchasing performance lies in the targeted planning, implementation, and management of purchasing objectives. A sound set of controlling tools for your practice is therefore essential. You will learn how to specifically identify purchasing potential and reduce costs. You will be able to derive appropriate measures and know how to assess and manage the effectiveness and efficiency of your purchasing using meaningful key performance indicators. training You can optionally take an e-exam – including Haufe Akademie -Certificate!

Contents

With e-examination and Haufe Akademie certificate

Basics of purchasing controlling

  • From corporate strategy to purchasing strategy.
  • Objectives and tasks of purchasing controlling.
  • Plan, implement and control purchasing targets effectively.

Developing meaningful key figures in purchasing

  • Methods and instruments for determining key figures.
  • Derivation of suitable key figures from strategic purchasing planning.
  • Key figures for identifying and measuring savings potential and success.
  • Relevant key figures for your purchasing practice: purchasing volume, price change rate, maverick spend, key figures for measuring product quality, adherence to delivery dates and overall supplier performance.

Supplier key figures and rating

Strategic purchasing controlling in practice

  • Creation of a practical purchasing strategy and tracking in purchasing controlling.
  • Performance management in purchasing.
  • Working capital: optimization through inventory and liquidity management.
  • Optimization of supplier and purchasing performance.
  • Procurement Scorecard: Establish purchasing KPI systems; use KPI systems as leading indicators.

Operational purchasing controlling in practice

  • Putting purchasing goals into practice effectively.
  • Tender and bid controlling.
  • Value analysis, target costing, make-or-buy decisions.

Analyze purchasing processes in a targeted manner - increase process performance

  • Analysis of core purchasing processes and systematic development of effective measures for process optimization; key figures.

Industry benchmarks and best practice processes in purchasing

  • Experience-based knowledge of best practice processes with tips from numerous companies, practical checklists.

Professional performance reporting

  • Professional design of purchasing reports, effective marketing of purchasing performance.
  • Success factors and requirements for an up-to-date purchasing dashboard.

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this qualification measure after you have registered.

Your benefit

You will develop a well-founded set of controlling instruments for your purchasing practice and train important methods and instruments. You will be able to

  • develop meaningful key figures to measure and evaluate purchasing performance for your practice,
  • Identify, systematically exploit and measure potential savings,
  • apply the strategic and operational instruments of purchasing controlling,
  • Analyze purchasing processes and derive optimization measures and
  • introduce and develop a professional reporting system.

Optional e-test

Document your learning success! After the training You can take an e-exam anytime and anywhere. Duration: 1 hour. You can access your e-exam via your online learning environment. participants In addition to the confirmation of participation, you will receive a certificate of the Haufe Akademie .

Methods

Trainer input, individual/group work, checklists, best-practice examples, discussions, exchange of experiences, e-exam (optional).

Recommended for

Specialists and managers from purchasing, procurement, materials management and supply chain management.

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Attendees comments

"Good organization, good learning atmosphere with excellent lecturers."

Jakob Dück
BPW Bergische Achsen KG, Wiehl

"The structure of the seminar and the use of media were great!"

Alexander Irchin
Merckle GmbH, Ulm

"High seminar quality, top speaker!"

Frank Wischnewski
Otto Fuchs KG, Meinerzhagen

"Very high practical relevance, perfect organization."

Sonja Meiler
Elektrokontakt GmbH, Floß

"High seminar quality, top speaker!"

Frank Wischnewski
Otto Fuchs KG, Meinerzhagen

"Very pleasant speaker, good working atmosphere."

Andreas Galm
Europa-Park GmbH & Co. Shopping KG, Rust

"The range of topics was ideal."

André Schütte
Studierendenwerk Hamburg, Hamburg

"I particularly liked the practical orientation of the trainer and the training environment."

Ralph Pekart
Total Walther GmbH, Cologne

"Smooth organization, competent speaker, comprehensive content, detailed documentation."

Angelika Rösch
Kromberg & Schubert GmbH & Co. KG, Abensberg

Seminar evaluation for "Purchasing controlling"

4.3 from 5
with 375 ratings
training content:
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Content comprehensibility:
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Practical relevance:
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Trainer expertise:
4.8
Participant orientation:
4.4
Method variety:
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2 days
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Certified Purchasing Professional course

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17.06.2025
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Tuesday, 17.06.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 18.06.2025

09:00 am - 4:30 pm

02.09.2025
Düsseldorf
Booking number: 7561
€ 1.440,- plus VAT.
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Novotel City West
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Niederkasseler Lohweg 179, 40547 Düsseldorf
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Tuesday, 02.09.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 03.09.2025

09:00 am - 4:30 pm

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  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

11.11.2025
Munich
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Premier Inn München City Ost
Premier Inn Munich City East
Kronstadter Straße 6-8, 81677 Munich
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Tuesday, 11.11.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 12.11.2025

09:00 am - 4:30 pm

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The participation fee includes

  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

02.12.2025
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Tuesday, 02.12.2025

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 03.12.2025

09:00 am - 4:30 pm

10.03.2026
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Tuesday, 10.03.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Wednesday, 11.03.2026

09:00 am - 4:30 pm

15.07.2026
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Wednesday, 15.07.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Thursday, 16.07.2026

09:00 am - 4:30 pm

02.09.2026
Frankfurt a. M./Offenbach
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Leonardo Hotel Offenbach Frankfurt
Leonardo Hotel Offenbach Frankfurt
Kaiserleistraße 39, 63067 Frankfurt a. M./Offenbach
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Wednesday, 02.09.2026

09:00 am - 5:00 pm

Thursday, 03.09.2026

09:00 am - 4:30 pm

Fee includes

The participation fee includes

  • one joint lunch per full seminar day,
  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

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  • Catering during breaks and
  • extensive working documents.

The participant will settle the hotel accommodation costs directly with the hotel. You will find a reservation form for hotel bookings in your learning environment.

Booking number: 32318
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Increase purchasing performance

Professional purchasing controlling provides strategic and operational purchasing with precise positioning with regard to objectives at all times.

Comparable to the team in the cockpit of an airliner, procurement controlling assumes the role of navigator and helps the pilot to reach the right airport safely. As co-pilot, it keeps a constant eye on its measuring systems and provides information on altitude, speed and whether there is enough fuel left.

This new principle of purchasing controlling is the subject of the "Purchasing Controlling" seminar. Reporting, purchasing planning and controlling of purchasing measures are presented in a holistic, integrated approach. Using very practical examples with many live demos of key performance indicator systems, every participant will find themselves reflected. In addition, various purchasing controlling software solutions will be shown that are widely used, especially in SMEs."

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