The Purchasing Chessboard 64 Methods to Reduce Cost and Increase Value with Suppliers

The Purchasing Chessboard 64 Methods to Reduce Cost and Increase Value with Suppliers / by Christian Schuh, Robert Kromoser, Michael F. Strohmer, Ramón Romero Pérez, Alenka Triplat.

The "golden" age of purchasing, in which it was relatively easy to achieve annual cost reductions of between one and three percent, has come to an end. The major reasons for this are the consolidation in many supplier markets, rising energy costs, and growing resource consumption in many e...

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Main Authors: Schuh, Christian (Author), Kromoser, Robert (Author), Strohmer, Michael F. (Author), Romero Pérez, Ramón (Author), Triplat, Alenka (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Industrial procurement.
Management.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Purchasing: between a rock and a hard place? Survey results: the state of purchasing in industry; A paradigm shift in purchasing
  • From four basic strategies to 64 methods: Manage spend; Change nature of demand; Leverage competition among suppliers; Seek joint advantage with supplier
  • Using the Purchasing ChessboardTM: A company’s fingerprint on the Purchasing ChessboardTM; Example of applying the Purchasing ChessboardTM
  • The Purchasing ChessboardTM
  • Closing Remarks.

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