Highland Consultants Ltd. was formed in 1989 to plan and present courses in New Zealand in the specialist fields of Purchasing and Supply. This was in response to requests from a number of larger companies in New Zealand for short courses lasting two or three days to be presented in-house. These courses were for refresher training of existing purchasing staff, and an introduction for newly appointed buyers in the supply chain business.

The courses were an immediate success and requests followed for public courses so that smaller companies could enrol. Subsequently these public courses have been held in Auckland three times per year and in Wellington twice per year.

Inventory Management, and Warehousing courses were added as many Buyers and Supply Managers have very significant involvement in the control of inventory.

The courses were further expanded by the addition of a skills based Supply Negotiation Course.  This has proven especially useful for purchasing specialists who are involved in contract and price negotiation.

Unfortunately the founder of Highland Consultants, Mr Lionel Scott, suffered ill health in 2002 and as a consequence has retired.  Ivan Maich purchased the company outright.  Ivan has had a long association with the company as co-director and trainer.

Due to many requests a new course has been written for 2003 - Integrated Logistics.  This course reflects the impact that logistics has on every company from point of origin to the point of consumption of the supply chain.

Staff from over 1600 companies have now attended a Highland Course and many participants have attended two, three or even four courses.

It is our intention to countinue to present great interactive courses which will provide attendees with practical and useful skills and information.

Ivan Maich                                                                                                               Managing Director

 

Purchasing Officers .................................................... Public Course

Inventory Management .............................................. Public Course

Warehousing ................................................................. Public Course

Supply Negotiation ...................................................... Public Course

Integrated Logistics Management.............................. Public Course

The Director

Ivan Maich has had extensive exerience in senior management in such diverse disciplines as supply chain, human resources and operations management.  He is currently managing director of Highland Consultants Ltd as well as a senior lecturer at Manukau Institute of Technology.  Ivan is keenly interested in developing efficiencies in supply chain and human resource management by diagnosing problems and identifying opportunities for savings and service improvement.  He is concerned that supervisory management have the ability to meet the day to day challenges of providing increased productivity and service to customers through manpower utilisation and supply chain performance control.  Ivan believes that seminars should be highly interactive to allow the participants to explore their organisational problems and help develop skills that can be used in their own particular industry.

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