Effective Purchasing, the Critical Success Factors - Softcover

FitzGerald, Paddy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1872980716 ISBN 13: 9781872980713

Publisher: Policy Publications, 2000

Synopsis

Effective Purchasing, the critical success factors Author: Paddy FitzGerald. Published by Policy Publications in association with the University of Luton and supported by The European Institute of Purchasing Management Learn from the experience of other companies how to improve corporate purchasing. Based on in-depth research covering the purchasing functions and activities of 296 European companies, this 175 page A4 report can be used to review your organisation's purchasing strategy and practice, brief your top management team on purchasing issues, assess where you stand in relation to approaches adopted in other countries and identify opportunities to derive more value from your purchasing function. Nine policy issues are examined in depth, including relationships with suppliers, outsourcing and ways of measuring purchasing performance. The report contains 79 diagrams, country statistics and checklists of key action points to help ensure your organisation's corporate purchasing contributes to the bottom line and enhances competitiveness. Table of Contents: The research team Foreword Introduction: how we carried out the research Executive summary Winning benefits from purchasing How purchasing is organised The treatment of purchasing Relationships with suppliers Purchasing and information technology Outsourcing purchasing Measuring purchasing performance International purchasing Purchasing in the future Statistical summary and country statistics Further reading

Edition details

• Publisher: Policy Publications
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1872980716
• ISBN 13: 9781872980713
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 183
• Editor: Bartram Peter, Coulson-Thomas Colin