Author: Christian Baier
Publisher: Gabler
Keywords: purchasing, performance, strategy, business, practices, implications, supply, link, alignment, management
Number of Pages: 231
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $74.50
ISBN-10: 3834910570
ISBN-13: 9783834910578

Purchasing and supply management (PSM) has developed into a discipline of major strategic importance for effectively competing in today’s global marketplace. To leverage PSM’s strategic value creation potential, the decisions and activities of the purchasing function must be aligned with the firm’s overall strategic orientation. Despite general agreement on the matter, research and practice lack knowledge on how exactly such an alignment can be achieved and what performance implications it has. Christian Baier empirically investigates the alignment performance link in PSM.

Author: Tom DePaoli
Publisher: Apollo Solutions
Keywords: purchasing, learned, pro, lessons, hard, sense, common, knock
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2004-02
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 159457250X
ISBN-13: 9781594572500

Common 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. Straight forward and to the point you will not be able to put it down until you have finished the purchasing journey.

Author: Derek Roylance
Publisher: Gower Publishing Company
Keywords: purchasing, function, selling, measuring, performance, marketing
Number of Pages: 175
Published: 2006-06
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0566086786
ISBN-13: 9780566086786

If the only measure of your organization’s purchasing performance is forcing down prices from suppliers, then not only is your purchasing team failing to add value, they may also be damaging your supply chain and the medium to long-term competitiveness of your organization. Derek Roylance’s "Purchasing Performance - Measuring, Marketing and Selling the Purchasing Function" is a blueprint to help you identify the performance measures and marketing expertise that matter for your purchasing team. Buyers don’t exist in isolation, but often find it easier to focus excessively on t

Authors:Joseph L. Cavinato, Ralph G. Kauffman,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: purchasing, professional, supply, guide, handbook
Number of Pages: 1082
Published: 1999-12-17
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0071345264
ISBN-13: 9780071345262

The purchasing and supply function has emerged from the shadows. As senior management executives around the world recognize the importance of each expenditure, and its subsequent impact on every level of their organization, purchasing and supply has become a major source of increased profits for today’s corporations. Recognizing this, numerous well-established companies--including IBM, Weyerhaeuser, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and others--have today established Chief Purchasing Officer (CPO) positions. For more than three decades, THE PURCHASING HANDBOOK has been a staple reference for purcha

Author: Mark S. Glynn
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Keywords: business, advances, marketing, purchasing, exercises, study, executive, brand, management, theory, research, case
Number of Pages: 507
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $164.95
ISBN-10: 1848556705
ISBN-13: 9781848556706

Providing broad and deep coverage, this volume focuses on sensemaking, decisions, actions, and evaluating outcomes relating to managing business-to-business brands including both product and service brands. This book goes well beyond basic marketing textbooks to provide extensive reviews of relevant studies, original research reports, and in-depth implications for the following B2B brand management issues: Building a Strong B2B Brand; Building a Strong Brand to Resellers; B2B Brand Equity - Theory, Measurement, and Strategy; Effective Strategies for B2B Service Brands; Brand Meaning and its Im

Author: Gopalakrishna
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Educatio
Keywords: management, materials, purchasing
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1992-12-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0074516507
ISBN-13: 9780074516508

Author: Helen Hysell
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: purchasing, science
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2008-12-09
List price: $26.75
ISBN-10: 0559859392
ISBN-13: 9780559859397

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Original Publisher: D. Appleton Subjects: Purchasing Business Business