Practical Guide to World Class Buying

This is a practical guide to developing the skills, techniques and activities of the world class buyer. Readers are guided from the basics through a series of increasingly complicated situations, with frequent illustrations from real-world examples and case studies. It traces the development of a typical buyer, from running the consumables and catalogue-purchasing desk through to capital and production purchasing, and finally begins to move into strategic and international buying.
 
This is a practical guide to developing the skills, techniques and activities of the world class buyer. Readers are guided from the basics through a series of increasingly complicated situations, with frequent illustrations from real-world examples and case studies. It traces the development of a typical buyer, from running the consumables and catalogue-purchasing desk through to capital and production purchasing, and finally begins to move into strategic and international buying.