Specialized English Seminars
English for Purchasing
Today, employees in purchasing departments are increasingly active in international markets. In order to be able to conduct discussions and negotiations with suppliers with confidence, they need very good knowledge of specialised business English. This is the only way to build good and lasting business relationships, so please contact us and we will be happy to provide you with a non-binding quote
Telephone: 040 46 88 22 47
Email: info@intercom-language.de
Seminar contents
- Telephone calls and correspondence in English
- Contract language
- Learning the specific vocabulary for the phases of purchasing, such as
- Notification of requirements
- Search and selection of qualified suppliers
- Obtaining and evaluating offers
- Negotiations and meetings
- Placing orders and
- Project management and warranty
- Practise idioms and simple sentence constructions in English in order to:
- Define negotiation goals and determine negotiation scope
- Asking specific questions and making demands
- Make agreements
- define purchasing strategies in meetings and much more.
- Complaints processing
- Open exchange of experience on current topics in the procurement sector
- Simulation of practice-relevant meetings and negotiation situations
Required language level
from CEF level B1
We recommend a short online test to determine the language level of the participants.
Target group: Employees from the purchasing department
Number of participants: up to 10 participants
Duration: 3 days (also available as a series of half-day or full-day seminars)
Goal setting
Based on the individual phases of purchasing, participants in this seminar will expand and practise the specific vocabulary they need to present themselves competently in negotiations. They will gain confidence when telephoning and corresponding with foreign business partners.