Purchasing: Selection and Procurement for the Hospitality Industry
- ISBN-10
- 0470290463
- ISBN-13
- 9780470290460
- Series
- Purchasing
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 704
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-01-18
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Authors
- Andrew H. Feinstein, John M. Stefanelli
Description
Hospitality professionals will find that this eighth edition balances purchasing activities with product and information from a management perspective. Each chapter has been revised so that the most current concepts available are presented along with even more in-depth coverage of hospitality purchasing. Numerous examples, questions, and exercises are included to reinforce new concepts. In order to reflect changes in the field, technology applications in the purchasing function are discussed throughout. New, revised, and updated illustrations and photographs of concepts, companies, and products relating to the purchasing function have also been included to give hospitality professionals a better understanding of the field.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2016-02-08
- - pages
- Paperback
- Wiley
-
- 2011-07-06
- - pages
- Paperback
- Wiley
-
- 2011-05-14
- - pages
- Paperback
- Wiley
Similar books
-
Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
By Robert M. Monczka, Robert B. Handfield, Larry C. GiuniperoThe text includes critical developments from the field, such as cases from emerging healthcare and service industries, procure-to-pay redesign, supply risk, innovation, sustainability, collaboration, and much more.
-
Common Sense Purchasing: Hard Knock Lessons Learned from a Purchasing Pro
By Tom DePaoliCommon Sense Purchasing is a no holds barred practical guide to purchasing and negotiations success. If you don't like consultants, buzzwords and theory this book is for you.
-
Purchasing and Supply Management
By P. Fraser Johnson, Anna E. FlynnThe Fourteenth Edition of Purchasing and Supply Management provides a comprehensive introduction to the purchasing and supply chain management field, supported by over 40 case studies.
-
Purchasing Submission: Conditions, Power, and Freedom
By Philip HAMBURGERPurchasing Submission is the first book to recognize this problem. It explores the danger in depth and suggests how it can be redressed with familiar and practicable legal tools.
-
The Purchasing Machine: How the Top Ten Companies Use Best Practices to Manage Their Supply Chains
By Patricia E. Moody, R. David Nelson, Jon StegnerThe book also includes a crucial section on the next stage of supplier development that will involve the sourcing and allocation of ideas as well as materials.
-
The Purchasing Handbook
By Donald W. Dobler, Harold E. Fearon, Kenneth H. KillenYou'll find numerous valuable keys to success in virtually every area of purchasing management, expertly documented in this bestselling, on-the-job handbook. Whether you work in a one-person department or in...
-
Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies
By Ann TwinamPurchasing Whiteness explores the fascinating details of 40 cases of whitening petitions, tracking thousands of pages of ensuing conversations as petitioners, royal officials, and local elites disputed not only whether the state should ...
-
Purchasing Power: Black Kids and American Consumer Culture
By Elizabeth M. Liew Siew ChinOn a twenty-dollar shopping spree with Chin, one boy has to choose between a walkie-talkie set and an X-Men figure. In one of the most painful moments of her research, Chin watches as Davy struggles with his decision.
-
Purchasing Management: Analysis, Planning and Practice
By Arjan J. WeeleA structured introduction to the principles and practice of purchasing management. The book analyzes the role, position and importance of purchasing, and its associated functions within the organization, and places...
-
The Book of Yields: Accuracy in Food Costing and Purchasing, 8th Edition: Accuracy in Food Costing and Purchasing
By Francis T. LynchThe Book of Yields, Eighth Edition is a must-have culinary resource.