Gower Handbook of Purchasing Management
3rd Edition
Published on 21. October 2002
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-566-08404-1 (ISBN)
Description
The revised third edition of the "Gower Handbook and Supply Management" views procurement as standing on the boundary of the firm, looking outwards and scanning the environment for new opportunities and threats. In this respect, as in many others, the new edition is quite different from the previous two, reflecting the many changes that have taken place for businesses over the years. In particular this edition has been slimmed down and focused to assist the reader by working systematically outwards using a purchasing lens to view the wider business world. The aim is to show the potential contribution that purchasing can make as a driver for organizational efficiency and business development. It is this latter requirement, the need for purchasing to generate revenue, that has been identified as being ever more prominent as a demand on purchasing directors' time and effort. Written by leading practitioners and academics, and published in association with the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, this book should become a classic in the field.
More details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
map
Dimensions
Height: 179 mm
Width: 251 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-566-08404-1 (9780566084041)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Previous edition
David Farmer
Gower Handbook of Purchasing Management
Book
10/1995
2nd Edition
Gower Publishing Ltd
€116.11
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Persons
Content
Introduction, Marc Day. Part 1 The foundations for organizing purchasing: purchasing and organizational design, Richard Lamming; purchasing strategy process, Christine Harland; organizing the purchasing function, Michael Quayle; managing a portfolio of supplier relationships, Douglas K. Macbeth; outsourcing, Chris Lonsdale; financial aspects of purchasing, Colin Rigby; purchasing and costing, Marc Day; the interrelationship between purchasing and marketing, David Ford; purchasing, logistics and supply chain management, Richard Wilding. Part 2 Tactical and operational applications in purchasing management: managing and measuring for purchasing performance, Peter Stannack; business process management - opportunities and caveats, Chris Hartey and Marc Day; purchasing IS/IT software - the impact of e-business on procurement and supply management, Andrew Cox et al; purchasing and "green" issues, Barbara Morton; ethical issues in purchasing, Christopher J. Cowton and Christopher Low; purchasing research, Kenneth Lysons; purchasing and international legal issues, Paul Abbiati; countertrade, Simon Harris. Part 3 Evidence-based practice in purchasing management: purchasing for SMEs, Michael Quayle; buying electricity and gas, Kenneth Burnett; how to buy IT, Kenneth Burnett; purchasing in the higher education sector, Tom Chadwick; purchasing transportation, Kenneth Waters; purchasing in the construction sector, Mark Smalley and Neil Jarrett; further reading; appendix - regional planning institutes.