Description
In association with IPSERA (International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association).
Best practice procurement is a key contributor to any organisation’s strategic goals, but requirements and experience differ between sectors: this book provides a range of perspectives on subjects central to improving purchasing performance across public and private, manufacturing and service sectors. Consisting of five Parts:
• Supply chain management
• Outsourcing and partnership
• Organization and management
• Electronic commerce and
• Performance evaluation
This book comprises a range of cutting-edge, refereed contributions from the 1999 International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association meeting. The authors combine both leading academics and key professionals from organisations leading the way in challenging current approaches to procurement practice. The bringing together of both the world of research and business provides the opportunity to present evidence grounded in valid theory and methodology in order to develop better practice as transferable strategies and techniques, rather than one-off, quick fix ‘solutions’. Best Practice Procurement will appeal to anyone working or studying in a procurement-related function to whom a deeper understanding of how to improve procurement’s contribution to the achievement of organisations’ strategic goals is important
Part One: Supply chain management
Introduction
1 Co-evolutionary purchasing: several steps beyond supply chain management?
2 Power, cost and value appropriation in the publishing supply and value chain
3 The role of main contractors in developing customer focus up and down construction’s supply chain
4 Environmental purchasing: tools of engagement
5 A comprehensive conceptual model for managing environmental impacts, costs and risks in supply chains
Part Two: Outsourcing and partnership
Introduction
6 Outsourcing: a national and sector level perspective on policy and practice
7 A framework for classification of services to gain strategic purchasing insights
8 Supplier classification as an enabler for a differentiated purchasing strategy
9 Beyond the ‘core versus non-core’ logic: the need for a contingency model for effective outsourcing in the public and private sectors
10 The role of power in partnership relationships: an empirical investigation of the current body of knowledge
Part Three: Organization and management
Introduction
11 From ideology to action: options, issues, roadblocks and realities of driving change in purchasing and supply
12 Getting to the fundamentals in procurement training
13 A cross-sector comparison of purchasing team use
14 A quart from a pint pot? Developing the effective use of purchasing consortia
Part Four: Electronic commerce
Introduction
15 The impact of electronic commerce on purchasing in the supply chain
16 The strategic contribution of e-commerce to MRO procurement
17 Supporting decentralized supplier management by publishing tenders on the Internet
18 Making use of Internet technology to achieve lean management in the West Midlands automotive supply chain
19 Purchasing consortia and Internet technology
Part Five: Performance evaluation
Introduction
20 Performance evaluation within the DVLA
21 Purchasing performance in the UK’s Higher Education sector – functional measures to help in strategic development for the 21st century
22 Benchmarking for strategic procurement: practices of Polish companies in an international context
23 Textbook methods for auditing purchasing and supply management: do they work in practice?
24 Process management and performance measurement in the supply chain: a food distribution case
Index