Category Management in Purchasing - A Strategic Approach to Maximize Business Profitability (Hardcover, 4th Revised edition)

Category Management in Purchasing is a comprehensive guide to strategic category management which provides a step-by-step guide to its implementation and use, and enables readers to deliver value and cost savings when sourcing and purchasing. Now in its fourth edition, this text has cemented its place as the essential reference for category management practitioners. In this new edition, Jonathan O'Brien shows how a strategic approach needs to integrate with other approaches, such as supplier relationship management and how the procurement function negotiates. Additionally, this new edition includes some new insights, based upon the experience of senior practitioners in industry, on how to make category management a success in the organization. It also includes some general updates and contextualizes the future procurement function and an ever increasing digitally enabled, de-globalized, post Brexit world. There is also additional material on the effect of international developments on procurement, updated tools and templates, and examples of how these have been successfully used in industry. Category Management in Purchasing, 4th edition connects theory and practice and provides readers with the tools to analyze complex sourcing situations quickly and clearly, and so develop innovative and creative proposals for sourcing.

General

Imprint:	Kogan Page
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Jonathan O'Brien
Dimensions:	242 x 165 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	520
Edition:	4th Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7494-8261-9
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management of specific areas > Distribution & warehousing management Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management of specific areas > Purchasing & supply management
LSN:	0-7494-8261-3
Barcode:	9780749482619

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