Perhaps the greatest frustration of procurement students and faculty is the lack of a codified procurement body of knowledge (PBoK). At the same time, the demand for relevant procurement skills has never been greater. The Procurement Playbook consists of ten chapters of essential procurement knowledge and skills. Written by an award-winning panel of experts, consultants and academics, the Playbook distils essential procurement knowledge using a structured pedagogical framework. Organisations are at various stages of their development towards procurement excellence. Existing texts on the market tend to convey procurement through a manufacturing lens or position private and public procurement as separate disciplines. The Playbook helps practitioners organise their thoughts and speak with clarity and confidence about the art and science of procurement. The text is an ideal companion for middle-level executives seeking to acquire procurement skills and provides a blueprint for training and training specialists who design procurement courses. * Achieves a balance between theory and a practical, skill-based approach to the procurement discipline. * Each chapter contains a glossary of terms, key questions and learning objectives. * Ideal for executives looking to acquire procurement skills, the Playbook is interspersed with short cases, research insights and debate points. * Provides a blueprint for training and education specialists looking to design procurement courses. Chapter overview: * Introduction * Perspectives of procurement * Identifying needs and writing specifications * Supplier screening and selection * Market analysis * Supply cost and prices * Outsourcing * Procurement value * Spend analysis * Supplier Performance Management

This valuable guide is an entertaining read due to the analogies made to various sports. It provides an easy to follow game plan and strategies for procurement and supply management professionals to improve supplier relationships, secure measurable cost reductions, achieve operational effectiveness and efficiency, and positively impact margins and competitiveness for their organizations. The authors use real-world scenarios and examples to make the procurement and supply management principles and concepts more relevant and easy to understand. They present guidelines, techniques, and tools for converting a transaction-based reactive function into a proactive and powerful strategic contributor, and include practical advice on selecting the right and effective organizational design. This book offers the guidance needed to take the procurement professionals career and department to the next level. It is ideal for self-learning, training, a classroom instruction.

Procurement and Supply Chain Management, 10th Edition, by Farrington is the most comprehensive and accessible textbook on procurement and supply chain management currently available. It is the ideal textbook for those aspiring to be leaders in the profession, and for those who are engaged in professional studies for the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply examinations (at both the foundation and professional stages). It is also of value to specialists in other fields who require understanding of the role and influence of this area of business performance. Using extensive real-life ex.

Procurement of information and communication technologies (ICT) plays a decisive role not only in public-service delivery but in public-sector modernisation. This report takes stock of current ICT procurement practices in the Slovak Republic and provides evidence-based strategic policy advice for the Slovak Government on how to adopt more innovative and agile approaches in ICT procurement.

The ninth book in the IBM Endowment Series on the Business of Government, The Procurement Revolution continues the tradition of timely and vital information dissemination, which the series has come to stand for. Focusing on the profound and revolutionary changes the government has had and will have to make in its approach to procuring goods and services, this book strives to capture the creativity and energy that can and should be brought to government procurement.

This review explores how Panama can enhance and harness digital government to achieve broader strategic goals at both national and local levels. It looks at institutional governance, legislation, and inter-departmental co-ordination, including institutional capacities and skills for delivering quality public services. It identifies opportunities for making public service delivery more efficient and inclusive, as well as for expanding the strategic use of data. The review provides policy recommendations to help Panama enable and sustain the digital transformation of the public sector.