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Booth, Caroline

Strategic Procurement: Organizing Suppliers and Supply Chains for Competitive Advantage - 2nd ed - London Kogan Page Limited 2014 - 210p

1. No company is an island
2. Know what your customers value
3. Right first time
4. Know your core
5. Handling the complexity
6. What’s the issue? We can all do procurement
7. Executive sponsorship and priorities
8. Strategy in context
9. Knowing what the business needs
10. Picking the right suppliers
11. Understanding your spend
12. The secrets of sourcing
13. Sharing the pain in hard times
14. Avoiding the perils of outsourcing
15. Corporate responsibility
16. Good procurement across the company
17. Becoming important to key suppliers
18. Supply continuity
19. Cyber Crime and the weakest link
20. Reputational risk
21. Continuous improvement
22. Reducing total cost
23. Mergers and acquisitions
24. Keeping procurement on the agenda

ISBN: 9780749472283

Subjects--Personal Names:
Industrial Procurement
Business Logistics
Purchasing and Supply Management

Dewey Class. No.: 658.72 / BOO