Purchasing controlling
How to increase your purchasing performance!
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.
In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this training course once you have registered.
A well-founded set of controlling instruments for purchasing practice is developed and important methods and instruments are trained. The following skills are taught:
- develop meaningful key figures for measuring and evaluating purchasing performance in 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 at any time and from any location. Duration: 1 hour. You can access your e-exam via your online learning environment. In addition to the confirmation of participation, you will attendees a certificate from the Haufe Akademie based on your exam result.
Trainer input, individual/group work, checklists, best-practice examples, discussions, exchange of experiences, e-exam (optional).
Specialists and managers from purchasing, procurement, materials management and supply chain management.
Questions about the seminar content
First impressions are formed within a matter of seconds and are strongly influenced by posture, eye contact, facial expressions, voice, and demeanor. In sales in particular, an uncertain demeanor can make even strong arguments seem less convincing. In this training course, you’ll learn to consciously recognize and strategically manage your personal impact. Practical exercises and personalized feedback will help you develop an open, credible, and confident demeanor that you can reliably draw upon even in challenging customer situations.
Nervousness often manifests itself in a tense posture, an uncertain voice, frantic movements, or speaking too quickly. Customers usually pick up on these signals, even if they can’t consciously identify them. That’s why, in the “ training ” course, you’ll learn to recognize physical stress reactions early on and reduce them using appropriate techniques. This will help you compose yourself better before important conversations, appear more calm, and focus your attention more strongly on your conversation partner and your sales goals.
A purchasing decision doesn’t depend solely on factual arguments. How credibly, confidently, and clearly you convey your message is also crucial. Your voice, body language, and choice of words can reinforce an argument, weaken it, or even make it seem contradictory. This training course will show you how to combine your statements with an appropriate demeanor, a firm voice, and clear reasoning. This will make your messages more coherent and help them more easily inspire trust and agreement in your audience.
customers People do not always express concerns, uncertainty, or disagreement directly. Often, their reactions are initially evident through changes in facial expressions, body language, eye contact, or tone of voice. You’ll practice noticing these nonverbal cues more closely and interpreting them in the context of the conversation. This will help you recognize more quickly when further explanation is needed, when doubts arise, or when the person you’re speaking with generally agrees. You’ll also learn to ask appropriate follow-up questions instead of jumping to conclusions.
When under time pressure, it’s often difficult to stay calm, formulate a convincing response, and pay attention to the other person’s reaction all at the same time. This training program therefore combines verbal quick-wittedness with a confident physical demeanor. You’ll practice first listening attentively to objections, stabilizing your composure, and then responding clearly. Using your own real-life examples, you’ll work through typical situations from your day-to-day sales work. This will help you develop phrasing and response patterns that give you greater confidence, even in spontaneous conversations.
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Start dates and details

Wednesday, 02.09.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday, 03.09.2026
09:00 am - 4:30 pm
- one joint lunch per full seminar day,
- Catering during breaks and
- extensive working documents.

Tuesday, 15.12.2026
09:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, 16.12.2026
09:00 am - 4:30 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.
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