For most supply chains, cost reduction is imperative to long-term survival. Yet identifying the costs that can be eliminated--and then doing so effectively--can prove impossible without the right method. This book introduces the same process the author has used to save companies like IBM, Kodak, and DuPont billions of dollars, simply by harnessing the knowledge of suppliers. Using real-life case studies and examples, the book takes readers step-by-step through the process, showing them how to move beyond negotiation and:

- identify critical costs in the supply chain

- measure secondary and tertiary costs

- develop strategic options

- reduce, change, or eliminate activities that produce costs

- implement an action plan

- verify the plan with cost monitors

- continually improve and modify the process

The book gives readers everything they need to implement this powerful system, and bring genuine and permanent savings to their company.

Successful management buyouts (MBOs) are the pinnacle of business success today and a great way to earn an ever-increasing stake in the American dream.

Buyout provides managers and executives with the necessary tools and strategies for leading a company or division buyout. It explores the details of the entire buyout process and empowers managers to seize their destiny and take charge. Managers learn how to:

* Find a company to purchase

* Develop a business plan

* Negotiate with the seller

* Win the ""ground war"" of due diligence

* Find equity partners and negotiate the management deal with investors

* Run the company after the MBO.

"Buyout" offers real-life stories of people who actually pulled off out-of-this-world deals and became rich beyond their wildest expectations.

Despite the spread of automation and new supply chain management paradigms, logistics remains dependent on a rather specific set of skills and competencies, whether for managerial, administrative, or blue-collar jobs, such as trucking or warehousing. This dependence implies that the logistical performance of businesses, industries, and nation states is strongly influenced by the quantity and quality of the workforce. Insufficient resources of a competent and properly trained workforce in logistics adversely affect the quality of service, reduce productivity in sectors dependent on logistics, and ultimately reduce trade competitiveness. While other interventions that affect logistics performance - such as international infrastructures, trade corridors, regulations, and services - have already been reviewed extensively, this report is the first to cover the contributions of human resources and explore how to develop skills and improve competencies, especially in developing countries. The study proposes a framework for the skills needed according to the logistics activity (such as transportation or warehousing) or the type and level of responsibility. Based on several sources, including recent surveys carried out by the World Bank and the Kehne Logistics University, the report uncovers where the skills constraints are according to the type of job or countries. Findings include that logistics is an industry struggling to hire skilled workers, although with differences between developed countries (where trucker shortages are more acute) and developing economies (where managerial shortages are more widespread). Typically, blue-collar logistics jobs have lower status and lower pay than blue-collar jobs in other industries; they are thus less attractive for skilled workers. In developing countries with a potentially available workforce, lack of vocational preparation for careers in logistics means that less-skilled workers are not easily re-skilled. Logistics tasks at the upper end of the occupational hierarchy and those with high information technology content often require an upskilling of employees to keep pace with new technology. Yet the problem is not confined to recruitment. The surveys point to limited resources, money, and staff time allocated to training, especially in developing countries. Realizing the promise of quality jobs from the growth of logistics worldwide requires a coordinated effort by logistics companies, professional associations, training providers, and policy makers. Through a combination of facilitation, regulation, advice, financial instruments, and land use planning, governments can exert significant influence.

This book explains the impact that some key legal decisions may have on your daily procurement practices: whilst it aims at being readable and at times amusing, it hopes to set some of the requirements of the Procurement Regulations into a practical context and help those tendering to navigate their way through what to some must at first seem like a legal minefield. It isn't, but it does demand thought and care. In addition, it will look at some of the more recent pieces of legislation, purely to help you keep abreast of any changes to your current practice that these new legal requirements may demand. Not only will the precedents and requirements explained herein guide you towards safer and more compliant procurement, it will also, hopefully, enable you to better understand the implications when someone names a case on which current good practice is based. It may even, dare I say, enable you to better participate in discussions on EU legislation at dinner parties and with your peers.

Das essential versteht sich als praktischer Leitfaden fur die Reiseburoausschreibung mit konkreten Hinweisen fur die Ausgestaltung von Ausschreibungsunterlagen. Der Einkaufer erhalt wertvolle Tipps, wie er die Qualitat der Reiseburoleistung im Rahmen der Ausschreibung bewerten kann und eine kompakte Zusammenfassung sowohl des Reiseburomarktes als auch der gangigen vom Reiseburo angebotenen Online Buchungssysteme. Die Reiseburoausschreibung ist innerhalb der Ausschreibungen fur das Travel Management die Koenigsdisziplin. Das liegt nicht zuletzt an der Komplexitat der Reiseburodienstleistung, die heute auch eine Onlinebetreuung umfassen sollte. Der Einkaufer steht vor der Herausforderung, neben den Servicegebuhren auch die Servicequalitat und die Fahigkeit des Reiseburopartners zu bewerten, die wirtschaftlichsten Angebote fur die Geschaftsreise zu vermitteln.

Lean Procurement and supply chain management is for many companies. It is not just for manufacturers who practice lean management. It is also for non-manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, retailers and others. During the past few years, companies have focused on supply chain improvements with initiatives centred on operational excellence and cost cutting. But have they worked? In today's on-demand environment, companies are facing growing challenges around market volatility, costs, long lead times and unpredictable forecasts. Your inventory management decisions can make or break your firm's financial bottom line. You will find strategies in this book that will let your company meet these daily challenges and optimize working capital efficiency.

This second edition has been revised and updated to include all the 2015 Regulations. The purpose of this book is to provide advice and guidance on procurement for those in Local Authorities and other public type bodies who have been charged with tendering building repair, maintenance or construction contracts. Written primarily with housing and other property professionals in mind, it assumes only a rudimentary knowledge of procurement and so serves as an introduction to the craft for the less- or the completely inexperienced. Nevertheless, it also assumes that the reader will need to take procurement exercises through to their completion and, in this vein, attempts to cover - in plain language - the whole of the process from conception through to the start of the awarded contract. In this respect, it is hoped it may also be of some use to a wider or more experienced audience.

This book answers some of the most challenging questions facing organisations in today's competitive marketplace such as how to create a collaborative contract in a scalable and cost effective manner, how to maximise pre-contract savings, reduce contract spend, reduce business risks and costs, increase revenue without increasing the number of assets sold and increase profits without selling for a higher price This book will challenge the way organisations currently engage when buying and selling, to offer a solution that could result in increased pre-contract savings for the buyer and higher sales booking figures for suppliers, increased post-contract savings for the buyer and increased post-contract supplier profits. Benefits also include reduced pre-contract costs for buyer and supplier and reduced post-contract risks and costs for buyer and supplier.