This is the complete executive's guide to driving sustainable competitive advantage and mitigating risk in today's complex supply networks.
Spend analysis is a key component of strategic supply management. This book provides in-depth guidance on what spend analysis really is, what it specifically involves, and how to use it to help your organization achieve its full potential.
Lead exceptional procurement teams and deliver sustainable competitive advantage with this new strategy to approach procurement as an influential business function.
In this new edition of Strategic Sourcing and Category Management, Magnus Carlsson has added new themes including examples and references from companies such as Maersk, Carlsberg, P&G and Aldi, illustrating the application of cost ...
The third edition offers the latest insights into the future of procurement and digitalization, updates on green and socially responsible procurement and a revised structure.
Understanding supplier performance is vital to ensuring a well-functioning supply network.
k k How to Make It Stick ◾ 275 programs such as information security or human resources courses. Understanding that employees are here to perform their duties and not sit in trainings all day, many organizations have adopted ...
Porter's Five Forces and the Kraljic Matrix are two such models. Both teach how to leverage an organization's power and position in the marketplace. The A.T. Kearney Purchasing Chessboard is a newer approach that offers an extensive set ...
It covers all the aspects of strategic procurement, including The role of the executive and the organization in procurement; Primary and secondary supply chains; Cost reduction techniques Making yourself important to suppliers; Sustaining ...
To compete at a world class level, service providers must begin to offer this range of services while at the same time focusing on competitive differentiators such as seamless global delivery models, integrated product and solution ...
The Procurement Models Handbook is an invaluable and enduring source of reference for practitioners and business managers, as well as an essential learning support for business and procurement students.