Barrat / Whitehead Buying for Business

Insights in Purchasing and Supply Management
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-470-09247-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten, E-Book

Buying For Business provides a simple but comprehensive guide to purchasing and supply. With current literature often academic in focus and unsuited to modern business readers, it offers straightforward and engaging information on the principles and practice of purchasing and supply management that will be of great value to anyone in business who deals with suppliers. Experts Mark Whitehead and Christopher Barrat answer all the key questions facing purchasing in business today, and offer advice on everything from ethics to outsourcing. Diagrams, analysis tools and pro-formas aid understanding, while case studies and bench-marking exercises illustrate and reinforce the learning.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barrat, Christopher

Whitehead, Mark

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements.
Chapter 1: Everyone's a Buyer.
Chapter 2: Managing Purchasing People.
Chapter 3: The Position of Purchasing.
Chapter 4: Managing your Customers.
Chapter 5: Relating to Suppliers.
Chapter 6: Negotiation.
Chapter 7: Measuring Performance.
Chapter 8: E-commerce.
Chapter 9: Outsourcing.
Chapter 10: Globalization.
Chapter 11: Ethics.
Chapter 12: The Future.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Barrat started out armed only with a degree inlaw and a bus conductor's license. He now has over 25 years ofbusiness experience. Working in the UK chemical industry, he wasinvolved in sales, marketing and corporate purchasing before takingon more senior roles in ICI as European Sales Manager andPurchasing Director - experience that has given him a view 'fromboth sides of the table'. He is currently a director of theGreystone Partnership, where he specialises in developing skills inpurchasing, negotiation, management and communication. He is apopular speaker and proud to be the first person to get the word'Sex' into the CIPS annual conference agenda. He lives inManchester with his family, and works with major blue chipcompanies throughout Europe.
Mark Whitehead started his career with a brief spell as ateacher before finding his vocation in journalism. He coverededucation, HR, management and general news for a variety ofpublications before specializing in purchasing joining SupplyManagement as deputy editor. The baffled looks on people'sfaces when he tried to explain what his magazine covered led to theidea of writing it all down in a book. He strongly believes thatnothing is too complicated to be explained simply, which is onereason why he became a journalist and not a nuclear physicist. Theother is that he dropped sciences in the fourth form. He lives withhis wife and young son in north London, where he plays a variety ofmusical instruments and beats the congestion charge by cycling towork.