This text recognizes the supply challenges facing organizations and their purchasing and supply management implications and provides grounding in the basic tools and techniques of purchasing. It includes a new chapter on sourcing which covers outsourcing and partnerships. Other topics covered include: team based approaches; cross-functional and commodity teams; supplier and purchasing councils; and international procurement. Cases are also featured.
- ISBN10 0256069840
- ISBN13 9780256069846
- Publish Date 1 January 1989 (first published December 1985)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 October 1997
- Publish Country US
- Publisher McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
- Imprint Irwin Professional Publishing
- Edition 9th Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 608
- Language English