This practice guide on procurement strategy brings together methods and tools used by global purchasers across different industries. The authors lay major focus on the themes of global sourcing, risk management, and the dynamic topic of negotiation strategy. The authors present their perspectives on all important questions of strategic procurement such as: how to manage a heterogeneous supplier structure across different branches and how to deal with partners from diverse cultures? How to solve procurement crisis and proactively avoid them? How does off-shore team management work and how to increase the value-add for both internal and external purchasing? These themes are discussed along with numerous practice-based cases. The authors lay an ideal ground for global purchasers to help with their strategic and operational needs, including technological topics such as e-procurement.

This practice guide on procurement strategy brings together methods and tools used by global purchasers across different industries. The authors lay major focus on the themes of global sourcing, risk management, and the dynamic topic of negotiation strategy. The authors present their perspectives on all important questions of strategic procurement such as: how to manage a heterogeneous supplier structure across different branches and how to deal with partners from diverse cultures? How to solve procurement crisis and proactively avoid them? How does off-shore team management work and how to increase the value-add for both internal and external purchasing? These themes are discussed along with numerous practice-based cases. The authors lay an ideal ground for global purchasers to help with their strategic and operational needs, including technological topics such as e-procurement.

Das vorliegende Buch stellt quer durch verschiedene Industrien praxisnahe Methoden und Ansatze fur den globalen Einkaufer vor. Im Fokus stehen dabei die Themenbereiche Global Sourcing, Risikomanagement sowie die Koenigsdisziplin des Einkaufers: die Einkaufsverhandlung. Die Autoren beantworten alle wichtigen Fragen des globalen, strategischen Einkaufs, beispielsweise: Wie managt man branchengerecht heterogene Lieferantenstrukturen und wie begegnet man Partnern aus unterschiedlichsten Kulturen? Wie meistert man Beschaffungskrisen und minimiert diese proaktiv? Wie fuhrt man Mitarbeiter auch uber grosse Distanzen und wie steigert man das Standing des Einkaufs intern und extern? Die Themenkomplexe werden jeweils mit zahlreichen Praxisbeispielen abgerundet und bilden somit den idealen Leitfaden fur den globalen Einkaufer mit Fuhrungsanspruch. Die 2. Auflage enthalt neue Aspekte zur Digitalisierung von Geschaftsprozessen (Stichwort: E-Procurement), beleuchtet das Thema Fuhrung (auch Lieferanten mussen gefuhrt werden) und gibt Tipps zum richtigen Umgang mit Monopolisten.