The Purchasing Handbook

The Purchasing Handbook
Author: Joseph L. Cavinato
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages: 1108
Release: 1999
Genre: Business logistics
ISBN:

Reflecting contemporary trends in purchasing and supply management, this text serves as a complete professional reference book, used to answer day-to-day questions for all sizes of purchasing departments.

The Technology Procurement Handbook

The Technology Procurement Handbook
Author: Sergii Dovgalenko
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2020-04-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1789662117

With the rise of cloud services and the digitization of all business units, procurement managers need to understand how to buy technology services in order to generate revenue, drive innovation and retain customers. The Technology Procurement Handbook provides a structured and logical view of the digital buying process. It includes invaluable advice on how to manage digital demand, prepare sourcing strategies, analyze the cost and benefits of proposed solutions and negotiate and implement comprehensive agreements. The Technology Procurement Handbook examines the multiple streams of data that feed into the technology procurement process, such as ITIL service lifecycle data, PMI project management and cloud and software contract provisions. The book includes case studies and extensive practical advice based on the authors experience from recent procurement projects. There is also a chapter on modular contracting for the US market, explaining the use of agile contracts for IT projects.

The Handbook of Ethical Purchasing

The Handbook of Ethical Purchasing
Author: Rob Harrison
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000456595

From boycotts of plastics and palm oil by consumers, to the tracking of carbon footprints and modern slavery in their supply chains by businesses, buying ethically has now fully captured the public interest. The Handbook of Ethical Purchasing is designed to help both ordinary people and industry professionals to understand this new movement, its political background and, most importantly, how to become involved more effectively By looking in turn at sustainable supply chain management by companies, green public procurement by governments, and the ethical choices made by consumers, this book operates as a practical handbook for people across all industries and sectors to become involved in the important changes that need to be made. It provides the key principles, language, and techniques that companies, campaigners, certification schemes, and regulators are beginning to use to address the moral, practical, and political problems that commonly occur in this transition to more ethical economies. Written by a leading authority on ethical consumption, Rob Harrison, the book provides the reader with the tools to operate with confidence and effectiveness in an easy-to-access format. It also provides a useful structure to understand this new subject area for students of marketing, supply chain management, and business studies generally.

Fire Apparatus Purchasing Handbook

Fire Apparatus Purchasing Handbook
Author: William C. Peters
Publisher: PennWell Books
Total Pages: 410
Release: 1994
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780912212333

This text details the step-by-step instructions needed to write specifications, go out to bid, evaluate the bids, inspect the apparatus, and save your department money. Chief Peters provides insight into various apparatus features, real-life mishaps, maintenance programs, and warranty information that will help you and the department purchase the right vehicle for the job.

Purchasing Handbook

Purchasing Handbook
Author: George W. Aljian
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages: 1310
Release: 1973
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

USA. Reference book on purchasing or materials management - covers the purchasing organization, the development of policy and procedure manuals, the legal aspects, the purchase order, sources of supply, ethics, quality control, pricing, inventory management and forecasting, stock, automation, commoditys, buying capital goods and services, purchasing abroad, training, etc., and includes a glossary of purchasing terminology. Bibliography, diagrams and references.

Small Purchase Handbook

Small Purchase Handbook
Author: United States. Department of Labor. Office of Procurement and Grant Management
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1989
Genre: Government purchasing
ISBN:

HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business

HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business
Author: Richard S. Ruback
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2017-01-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1633692515

Think big, buy small. Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: You can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards—as well as personal and professional fulfillment. Leading a firm means you can be your own boss, put your executive skills to work, fashion a company environment that meets your own needs, and profit directly from your success. But finding the right business to buy and closing the deal isn't always easy. In the HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business, Harvard Business School professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff help you: Determine if this path is right for you Raise capital for your acquisition Find and evaluate the right prospects Avoid the pitfalls that could derail your search Understand why a "dull" business might be the best investment Negotiate a potential deal with the seller Avoid deals that fall through at the last minute

The Procurement Models Handbook

The Procurement Models Handbook
Author: Andrea Cordell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2019-04-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351239481

Building from the previous two successful editions, The Procurement Models Handbook is an essential resource for everyone working in the procurement profession, including those selling directly to it. The authors provide the reader with a useful guide to the business models most frequently applied in the procurement and supply chain arena. Procurement and supply chain management are two of the highest contributors to corporate success in the modern world. This third edition is a new revised international version with additional tools that reflect the value of procurement in our globally-connected world. The authors have included over 50 well-established strategic and operational models that have a proven track record of delivering value over years of practice. Each model is presented pictorially, with explanatory commentary on its practical application to support. These models are designed to save unnecessary cost and deliver significant benefits for their user and have been carefully selected by the authors based on their originality and usefulness for practical application in the context of procurement and the supply chain. The Procurement Models Handbook is an invaluable and enduring source of reference for practitioners and business managers, as well as an essential learning support for business and procurement students.

The Purchasing Handbook

The Purchasing Handbook
Author: Harold E. Fearon
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages: 936
Release: 1993
Genre: Purchasing
ISBN:

This handbook is a complete and authoritative source of practical information on all aspects of purchasing management. This new edition is the first revision of this classic handbook since 1982, a decade in which many important developments have taken place in business, the economy, and the field of purchasing. Once again developed under the auspices of the National Association of Purchasing Management, Aljian brings the entire field up to date. A special emphasis of this new edition is the coverage given to purchasing policies and procedures in a service economy and in service industries. Previous emphasis in the handbook was on manufacturing-related purchasing issues. Aljian provides up-to-date guidance on all aspects of the general purchasing process from purchasing department through contracts, pricing and negotiation and beyond, to such subjects as purchasing strategy and evaluating purchasing performance. In addition, the handbook also zeros-in on specific subject areas and specific industries, covering in detail global sourcing, raw materials, health care, government purchasing, and other specific subject areas. Targeted coverage is provided on other "special interest" subjects such as materials management, just-in-time, legal aspects of purchasing, scrap and other topics of interest to purchasing managers and corporate departments with which they interrelate.

Handbook of Theories for Purchasing, Supply Chain and Management Research

Handbook of Theories for Purchasing, Supply Chain and Management Research
Author: Tate, Wendy L.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2022-05-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1839104503

This clear and coherent book introduces agent-based modelling (ABM) to those who are not familiar with nor have been previously exposed to computational simulation. Featuring examples, cases and models, the book illustrates how ABM can, and should, be considered as a useful approach and technique for the study of management and organisational systems.