Drive sustainable supply chain competitive advantage through more effective supplier management and procurement: reduce costs, improve quality, and deliver better service for all customers. This is the most authoritative, complete guide to planning, implementing, measuring, and optimizing supply management and procurement processes. Straight from the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), it brings together up-to-the-minute principles, strategies, and decisions for all relevant processes, strategies, and tactics. Step by step, The Definitive Guide to Supply Management and Procurement covers all this, and more:
Basic supply management concepts, purposes, and goals
Linkages between procurement and other business functions
Day-to-day transactional and long-term strategic activities
Category analysis, supplier selection, contract negotiation, supplier relationship management, and performance evaluation
Principles and strategies for establishing efficient, effective, and sustainable operations, from sourcing teams to supplier rationalization
Technology for spend analysis, competitive bidding, eProcurement, eSourcing, auctions/reverse auctions, contract compliance, performance management, and more
Requirements and challenges of global sourcing, including insource vs. outsource decisions; TCO analysis; risk management; negotiations, and supplier contract compliance
Best practices for assessing performance using standard metrics and frameworks
- ISBN10 013344905X
- ISBN13 9780133449051
- Publish Date 19 December 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pearson Education Limited
- Format eBook
- Language English