a guide for the purchasing and supply professional /
Joseph L. Cavinato and Ralph G. Kauffman, editors in chief.
6th ed.
New York, NY :
McGraw-Hill,
1999.
xv, 1,082 :
illustrations ;
24 cm
"Sponsored by the National Association of Purchasing Management."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 12. Competencies and skills in today's purchasing -- Ch. 13. Developing a purchasing organization -- Ch. 14. Re-engineering purchasing and supply -- Ch. 15. Human resource management -- Ch. 16. Purchasing performance evaluation -- Ch. 17. Ethics and responsibility -- Part Four. Components and capabilities -- Ch. 18. Electronic opportunities and electronic commerce--new technologies for purchasing -- Ch. 19. Supplier price and cost analysis -- Ch. 20. Total cost of ownership -- Ch. 21. Purchasing and supply negotiations -- Ch. 22. Contract and subcontract administration and management -- Ch. 23. Quality assurance -- Ch. 24. Value analysis -- Ch. 25. A practitioner's guide to forecasting -- Ch. 26. Inventory management -- Ch. 27. Legal aspects of purchasing.
Ch. 28. Investment recovery -- Ch. 29. Managing budgets and operations -- Ch. 30. Marketing purchasing and supply -- Ch. 31. Supplier performance evaluation -- Part Five. Item and industry practice -- Ch. 32. Purchase of raw materials and commodities -- Ch. 33. MRO materials -- Ch. 34. Software and intellectual property -- Ch. 35. Capital and its impact on the organization -- Ch. 36. Services and nontraditional goods -- Ch. 37. Construction services procurement -- Ch. 38. Transportation and related services -- Ch. 39. Purchasing in the service industry -- Ch. 40. Purchasing and supply management in the process and extractive industries -- Ch. 41. Public/private purchasing -- Part Six. Purchasing and supply information resources.
Part One. The strategic contributions of purchasing and supply -- Ch. 1. The future of purchasing and supply -- Ch. 2. Creating supply advantage by leveraging the strategic nature of procurement -- Ch. 3. Purchasing in the new firm of the future -- Part Two. The strategic approaches of purchasing and supply -- Ch. 4. Development of supply strategies -- Ch. 5. Knowledge of supply markets -- Ch. 6. Purchasing as relationship management -- Ch. 7. Introduction to supply chain management -- Ch. 8. Strategic alliances and partnerships -- Ch. 9. Global procurement synergies -- Ch. 10. Challenges of outsourcing in supply chain procurement: how best to cope with the changing opportunities -- Ch. 11. Identification and evaluation of sources -- Part Three. Organization and competencies of purchasing and supply.