Profitable Purchasing Strategies: A Manager's Guide for Improving Organizational Competitiveness Through the Skills of Purchasing

By Paul T. Steele

Book Overview

Understanding how best to buy, from whom and when, is crucial to an organization's long-term success. This guide shows how to implement ideas that should benefit the profitability of an enterprise. It... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0077092147
• ISBN13: 9780077092146
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A purchasing plan from start to finish

This book provides a thorough view of purchasing strategies and strategic purchasing. It emphasizes the need for support from the top as well as established purchasing guidelines.It's primary benefit comes from a thorough explanation of strategic purchasing. How to determine a need, determine the possibility of seclecting one (or more) suppliers to fill that need and how to use your position as a buyer to create the type of supplier that YOU need. It also highlights the need for "upstream" planning to avoid the pitfalls that often result from unplanned purchasing.