The Purchasing Handbook
The One-Stop, Up-to-Date,
Problem-Solving Toolbox for Every Purchasing and Supply Management Professional
Purchasing and supply
management has become one of the business world's most rapidly emerging-and
evolving-business disciplines. Strategies and practices that are state-of-the-art one
day become outdated the next.
The Purchasing & Supply
Yearbook: 2000 Edition provides the "Best of the Best" thinking from today's
most prominent P&S researchers and practitioners. Reprinted articles from professional
and popular journals including Industry Week, Logistics, The Journal of Supply Chain
Management, Purchasing Today, and others-plus original articles written to bring the
far-reaching topics into focus-comprise a one-stop, up-to-date anthology on subjects
including:
• Supplier Management
Discover how Cintas
measurably trimmed costs and increased effectiveness by forging partnerships with
suppliers.
• Supplier Awards
A comprehensive study reveals
how companies such as Intel and Bethlehem Steel produce real benefits from award programs.
• Customer/Supplier
Agreements
Step-by-step blueprints and
analyses outline necessary and desired coverage that will help both purchaser and
supplier.
E-commerce rules and
regulations ... case studies of turning purchasing into a profit center ... supply chain
management ... target costing ... muaarity supplier development... it's all here. Whether
for current advances or long-standing practices, let The Purchasing & Supply Yearbook
enhance your knowledge and performance-and strengthen your organization-for 2000 and
beyond.
Welcome to the first edition
o/The Purchasing & Supply Yearbook, a resource designed to help you stay current with
this rapidly emerging area of management practices.
With those opening lines,
John Woods and the National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM) introduce a
one-of-a-kind new reference for purchasing and supply professionals around the world. The
Purchasing & Supply Yearbook provides practical, hands-on articles-written by
leading professionals-that will help you solve purchasing and supply dilemmas as you
learn to take advantage of the latest technologies and management practices.
More than 50 current articles
encompass the breadth and scope of today's purchasing discipline. Spanning industries from
technology to business, accounting to engineering, they provide current information on the
most useful and innovative ideas, techniques, and strategies. Whether reviewing
information on commonly accepted standards and practices or introducing major changes in
the state of the art, they will help you effectively solve long-term problems with modem
practices.
Designed to be your most
trusted and helpful source of information whenever you have a question or problem
concerning purchasing and supply management issues. The Purchasing & Supply Yearbook
accomplishes four major goals:
Creates an accessible
clearinghouse
To cut your information
search time-when time may be all you have-it packs a wide variety of magazine and
journal articles into one convenient resource.
Emphasizes new practices
The Purchasing & Supply
Yearbook helps you better understand how the field is evolving, and which practices arc
now falling under the P&S manager's responsibility.
Develops an authoritative
review
Current... reliable ...
authoritative.... If you read it in The Purchasing & Supply Yearbook, you know it was
written by a top practitioner or researcher- and can be trusted.
Creates a rewarce of lasting
value
While its strength is in its
currency, the Yearbook's information will continue to be applicable, useful, and
day-in-day-out valuable for years to come.
In addition to six carefully
defined, clearly delineated sections focusing on different aspects of P&S
542 pages