Single course
Basics of Purchasing (nonstop)
Content
The main content will include
- Role of purchasing
- Purchasing process
- Purchasing in different business environments
- Sustainable purchasing
- The future of purchasing
Objectives
Do you want to develop into a purchasing professional that brings clear savings to your organization? In addition to that, added value, success and profitability? Purchasing know-how is all of this!
Competences to be promoted in the course:
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
You understand the role and significance of procurement in organizations and networks. You are familiar with the procurement process and the most significant special characteristics of different sectors. You understand the importance of total cost management and identify procurement opportunities from the perspective of responsibility and sustainable development. You have an overall picture of the opportunities and challenges of procurement in business development.
PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF TECHNOLOGY
You will identify opportunities to apply methods and techniques to carry out procurement professionally.
COMMUNICATION AND TEAMWORK
From a procurement perspective, you identify stakeholders with whom you can communicate effectively.
Implementation methods
This is a nonstop course. Student may enroll to the course during 1.8.-31.5. There are three (3) different time periods inside the nonstop course:
- Course studied by 1.9.- 10.12.
- Course studied by 11.12.- 20.4.
- Course studied by 21.4.- 31.7.
Student chooses the time period in the virtual study environment. Student can create own time schedule for the assignments and tasks within the selected time period.
If the virtual study environment has not opened for you within 2 weeks after enrollment, please contact the course teacher.
The calculated workload is the number of credits times 27 hours.
In the 5 credit course, the workload is 135h.
Additional information
You can enrol on the course on a non-stop basis from the beginning of August to the end of May. The course must be completed within the time frame defined in the course.
Enrollments on the non-stop courses are processed within one week after the enrollment, starting from week 35 at the latest.
You can see the current study schedules by searching with the course realization code TLLY2500-3072 at https://lukkarit.peppi.jamk.fi. NOTE! Courses that are entirely online may not have a schedule.
Enrolling on open studies requires a Finnish personal identity number and strong identification.
Make a strong identification in the suomi.fi service or with HAKA credentials when You do the enrollment. Otherwise, you will need either a valid passport or an EU ID card with a chip (according to the ICAO 9303 E-MRTD standard). In this case, please contact help.jamk.fi
Please notice, that degree students in Jamk who have enrolled for attendance in are not eligible to enrol as Jamk Open UAS students (instead enrollment in Peppi).
Read more about enrollment and study fees: https://www.jamk.fi/en/apply-to-jamk/jamk-open-university-of-applied-sc…
Further Information concerning the enrollment: avoinamk@jamk.fi