This comprehensive, A-to-Z guide to purchasing management takes you through all the buying steps and procedures from requisition to delivery of a satisfactory product or service - on time, and at the best possible price. Whether you work for a small company or a corporate giant ... whether you're a seasoned pro in the field, or just beginning a career in purchasing ... this guide will help you do a better job, solve a multitude of day-in and day-out problems, and enhance your success on the job. The book zeros in on the practical problems facing every buyer or purchasing manager, like saving money with proper specifications, ensuring on-time delivery, negotiating the best price, getting the exact quality you need, and combating the ever-present problem of "backdoor selling." It gives solutions, based on years of practical experience, to all the problems that buyers face when buying maintenance, repair and operating supplies, as well as the raw materials needed for high-volume production. This book will show you how to unlock and enjoy the substantial profit opportunities awaiting you when you practice good purchasing techniques; how to set up a purchasing organization to gain negotiating strength you never before thought possible; how to protect your company from costly mistakes, legal or otherwise, make buying less risky, and be sure you always get the quality you want; how to find the best suppliers for any need and determine if they meet your every qualification check; how to simplify the buying process, save time and money, and not sacrifice control; and how to use computers to increase purchasing productivity, without becoming a slave to the machine plus much, much more. Everything is covered in this manual, from setting up an efficient purchasing department and avoiding common mistakes, to all the steps required from the issuance of a purchase order to receipt and acceptance of the product or service. Included also is practical help on preparing a purchasing policy and procedures manual - important if you want consistency, lowest costs, and absolute fairness and impartiality in the purchasing process. Rounding out the coverage is information on how to succeed in global sourcing: finding international suppliers, currency and exchange rates, negotiating with international suppliers, and how to save money on importing. This handbook will be the number-one source you will find yourself turning to in doing your job efficiently and with professionalism.

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.

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.

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.

This handbook covers the entire spectrum of purchasing, from policy and organization to systems, procedures and techniques. This third edition reflects recent developments in purchasing Europe-wide and covers TQM, EDI and environmental issues.

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.