Best Practice Procurement: Public and Private Sector PerspectivesAndrew Erridge, Ruth Fee, John McIlroy Best practice procurement is a key contributor to any organization's strategic goals, but requirements and experience differ between sectors: this book provides a range of perspectives on subjects central to improving purchasing performance across public and private, manufacturing and service sectors. Consisting of five Parts: ¢ Supply chain management; ¢ Outsourcing and partnership; ¢ Organization and management; ¢ Electronic commerce; and ¢ Performance evaluation, this book comprises a range of cutting-edge, refereed contributions from the 1999 International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association meeting. The authors combine both leading academics and key professionals from organizations leading the way in challenging current approaches to procurement practice. The bringing together of the worlds of research and business provides the opportunity to present evidence grounded in valid theory and methodology in order to develop better practice as transferable strategies and techniques, rather than one-off, quick fix 'solutions'. Best Practice Procurement will appeal to anyone working or studying in a procurement-related function to whom a deeper understanding of how to improve procurement's contribution to the achievement of organizations' strategic goals is important. |
Contents
Power cost and value appropriation in the publishing supply and value chain | 13 |
tools of engagement | 33 |
Introduction | 53 |
Supplier classification as an enabler for a differentiated purchasing strategy | 73 |
the need for a contingency model | 82 |
an empirical investigation of | 90 |
Introduction | 103 |
Getting to the fundamentals in procurement training | 116 |
The strategic contribution of ecommerce to MRO procurement | 160 |
Supporting decentralized supplier management by publishing tenders on | 169 |
Making use of Internet technology to achieve lean management in the West | 177 |
Purchasing consortia and Internet technology | 184 |
Introduction | 195 |
Purchasing performance in the UKs Higher Education sector functional | 207 |
practices of Polish companies in | 220 |
do they work | 230 |
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