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Business & Purchasing: Buy Smart and Avoid Excess Inventory in Your
Warehouse
By Dan Kaplan
Many companies are surprised when they find excess inventory of fast
moving items during a physical inventory. After getting over the initial
surprise, they shrug their shoulders and say: "these are fast moving
items and they should sell." What they fail to realize is that even
though fast moving items will sell, they carry unnecessary storage costs
that affect their bottom line profit.
Out of
stock, out of mind, out of business
By Chris Olivier, CEO, The Smollan Group |
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Supply Market Intelligence: A Managerial Handbook for Building Sourcing Strategies
by Robert Handfield
The book begins be defining supply market intelligence and discussing
opportunities, the establishment of a project team, and conducting an
internal business intelligence assessment. It then examines the
development of business and market intelligence, supplier evaluations,
and sourcing strategies. It also explores how to execute a sourcing
strategy, manager a strategic supplier relationship, and redesign an
organization for effective supply-chain intelligence and strategic
sourcing. This volume offers a benchmarking framework covering all
facets of supply-chain management, and includes best practices and case
studies of world-class companies.
The
Purchasing Handbook: A Guide for the Purchasing and Supply Professional
by Joseph L. Cavinato (Editor), Ralph G. Kauffman
For more than three decades, THE PURCHASING HANDBOOK has been a staple
reference for purchasing and supply professionals around the world.
Chapters written by over 100 top authorities provide in-depth,
authoritative coverage of each topic, and allow professionals to make
confident, informed decisions in virtually any area of purchasing and
supply. This updated, expanded 6th Edition--with 20 new chapters--contains
not only the basic information every manager needs to know but also the
current information and research that every manager MUST know for
procurement in the next century. A partial listing of topics covered
includes: Globalization; Industry consolidation; Technological
advancements; Supply chain synchronization; E-commerce and the Internet;
Virtual value networks; Strategic versus tactical procurement; Supplier
integration; Collaboration planning and execution; Marketplace
intelligence; Re-engineering; Total cost of ownership; Inventory
management; Legal aspects of purchasing; Investment recovery.
Procurement
Reengineering (Purchasing Excellence Series)
by John P. Mahoney, Linda S. Keckler (Editor), Ben Laaper
Upper management is finally coming to the realization that the traditional
Procurement Process is cost prohibitive and highly ineffective in itself.
In particular shop and plant commodities such as Maintenance, Repair and
Operating supplies (MRO) tend to absorb most the purchasing resources. The
development of exciting new processes for Procurement can help elevate the
often-battered purchasing profession, to new levels. In Procurement
Reengineering, purchasing professionals finally have an opportunity to rid
themselves of the often nagging reams of paper and non value adding
bureaucratic activities and controls. In elevating the, heretofore,
multifunctional procurement process into a continuous closed-looped
process purchasing can now help direct the migration of transactions to
suppliers performing as business partners through a process called
Integrated Supply. |
