The Strategic Procurement Practice Guide
The Strategic Procurement Practice Guide

Author: Ulrich Weigel

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-06-22

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 3319576518

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This practice guide on procurement strategy brings together methods and tools used by global purchasers across different industries. The authors lay major focus on the themes of global sourcing, risk management, and the dynamic topic of negotiation strategy. The authors present their perspectives on all important questions of strategic procurement such as: how to manage a heterogeneous supplier structure across different branches and how to deal with partners from diverse cultures? How to solve procurement crisis and proactively avoid them? How does off-shore team management work and how to increase the value-add for both internal and external purchasing? These themes are discussed along with numerous practice-based cases. The authors lay an ideal ground for global purchasers to help with their strategic and operational needs, including technological topics such as e-procurement.

Best Practice Procurement
Best Practice Procurement

Author: Andrew Erridge

Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780566083662

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This book presents a range of cutting edge perspectives on subjects which are central to improving purchasing performance, including supply chain management, outsourcing and partnership, professional development, IT and e-commerce, and performance evaluation.

Strategic Procurement in Construction
Strategic Procurement in Construction

Author: Andrew Cox

Publisher: Thomas Telford Limited

Published: 1998-05-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780727725998

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Explores the appropriateness of procurement strategies in certain situations. This book argues that organisations should develop strategically aligned supply chains to deliver sustained performance improvements, and provides a framework to help organisations develop segmented approaches in the management of their construction supply chains.

Strategic Sustainable Procurement
Strategic Sustainable Procurement

Author: Colleen Theron

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-08

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 1351274465

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Procurement is playing an increasingly strategic role as a lever for sustainable development and social and environmental responsibility. Greater regulation on sustainable procurement in the public sector, including significant changes to the EU Directive in April 2014, are driving this change.This comprehensive guide to sustainable procurement by practising legal experts Colleen Theron and Malcolm Dowden distils key developments in EU and UK public sustainable procurement legislation, government guidance and policy; provides an introduction to sustainable procurement more broadly; provides case studies and practical examples on contractual aspects of procurement; shows you how to set up a sustainable procurement strategy; and contributes to the development of sustainable procurement policy. There is also increased emphasis on "clean" supply chains in the private sector, as best practice seeks to mesh with public sector requirements and reduce the risk that bids for public contracts might be undermined by adverse environmental impacts or social misconduct along the supply chain.Private sector companies should act now to establish best practice sustainable procurement principles to minimize the risk of litigation; several international standards are embedding the principles of sustainable procurement into their requirements.The book also offers practical examples of what sustainable procurement entails, whether the organization is bidding for public sector contracts, in need of meeting tender requirements, looking to obtain certification for a standard, or is simply seeking to improve its supply chain management and implement best practice.

Strategic Global Sourcing Best Practices
Strategic Global Sourcing Best Practices

Author: Fred Sollish

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-01-06

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0470949309

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The latest best practice guidance on all aspects of global strategic sourcing-including environmental and international issues Strategic Global Sourcing Best Practices covers the latest trends and leading edge processes in global strategic sourcing, including supply management, t, sustainability, financial decisions, risk management, and international strategies. Offers the latest trends and guidance for sourcing and supply managers Features coverage of understanding sourcing, procurement and supply management, procurement and best business practices, best practices in sourcing management and global sourcing management, financial strategies for sourcing, responsible procurement,diversity procurement, managing risk, supplier selection, project management for procurement and supply managers, managing supplier relationships, international sourcing, managing supplier relationships supply management operations, With the rise of global supply chains, environmental/sustainability concerns, and constantly evolving technology, the time is right for understanding Strategic Global Sourcing Best Practices.

Procurement Systems
Procurement Systems

Author: Steve Rowlinson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-10-09

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1135805997

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Procurement Systems details the whole spectrum of procurement issues in the construction industry, starting with the client /customer and running through managerial, cultural and IT-based issues. The book commences with an overveiw of previous work and a section on selection criteria is provided to enable practitioners to make their choices of procurement form. Importantly, perfromance comparisons of different procurement forms are discussed and the main emphasis of the book is to highlight best practice based on the most up-to-date research. One chapter deals specifically with developmentally orientated procurement issues in NICs (newly industrialised countries), where best practice is assessed from a different set of perspectives. The authors contributing to this book are among the most highly respected and eminent in the field.

A Practical Guide to Public Procurement
A Practical Guide to Public Procurement

Author: Abby Semple

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2015-03-26

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780198716112

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Offering a practical guide to public procurement under the new EU directives, A Practical Guide to Public Procurement considers the broader policy impacts, with emphasis on the implementation of public policy through procurement. It provides a critical perspective based on first-hand experience with public sector procurement.

Sourcing Strategy
Sourcing Strategy

Author: Sudhi Seshadri

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2005-04-07

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780387251820

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Sourcing Strategy is about sourcing as a long term strategic activity. Myopic purchasing management stops short with describing functional procedures and procedural innovations such as online order processing. The goal of this book is not merely to document sourcing strategy, but to provide the tools to determine it. Therefore, rather than merely describe common sourcing processes, the book takes a normative approach to sourcing strategy. It argues for a rational, complete and integrated process view. It supports its recommendations with logical arguments from an interdisciplinary and analytical approach grounded in microeconomics, law and business strategy. Part 1 of the book explains the economic and business principles that underlie sourcing strategies. It derives policies that guide viable strategies to meet sourcing goals. Part 2 applies these to creative designs for standard sourcing scenarios.

The Purchasing Handbook
The Purchasing Handbook

Author: Joseph L. Cavinato

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 1108

ISBN-13:

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Reflecting contemporary trends in purchasing and supply management, this text serves as a complete professional reference book, used to answer day-to-day questions for all sizes of purchasing departments.