"Purchasing Principles and Management" provides comprehensive coverage of this dynamic subject area in a single book. A clear and easy to read guide based on current good practice, it also explores the latest developments in ideas and approach. ""Essential reading for the practitioner or student of the subject - this book remains the standard text." -" "Professor Peter Hines, Cardiff University." The four sections cover every aspect of purchasing: Objectives and organisation - focuses on strategic themes, and the scope of purchasing activity Key considerations - covers essential tactical issues, including quality and price Specialised aspects - deals with activities and applications, including the latest developments in new technology and e-commerce Systems and Control - highlights personnel and performance, and explores the future direction of purchasing. 'Practice Notes' throughout the text help the reader apply the concepts to commercial and industrial practice across all sectors and this ninth edition includes improved coverage of Supply Chain Management and addresses international issues throughout. Peter Baily, former Chief Examiner for CIPS David Farmer, Henley Management College David Jessop, formerly University of Glamorgan David Jones, Blackburn College ""Nobody reading this text will be in any doubt that purchasing and supply are core to the business strategy of an organisation. This is an excellent text that should be required reading for students and managers alike" - Steve Brown Professor of Operations Management, University of Exeter " "Purchasing Principles and Management" is published in association with the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), which is the central reference point for the purchasing and supply profession. Details about courses, conferences and other services are available at www.cips.org

From boycotts of plastics and palm oil by consumers, to the tracking of carbon footprints and modern slavery in their supply chains by businesses, buying ethically has now fully captured the public interest. The Handbook of Ethical Purchasing is designed to help both ordinary people and industry professionals to understand this new movement, its political background and, most importantly, how to become involved more effectively By looking in turn at sustainable supply chain management by companies, green public procurement by governments, and the ethical choices made by consumers, this book operates as a practical handbook for people across all industries and sectors to become involved in the important changes that need to be made. It provides the key principles, language, and techniques that companies, campaigners, certification schemes, and regulators are beginning to use to address the moral, practical, and political problems that commonly occur in this transition to more ethical economies. Written by a leading authority on ethical consumption, Rob Harrison, the book provides the reader with the tools to operate with confidence and effectiveness in an easy-to-access format. It also provides a useful structure to understand this new subject area for students of marketing, supply chain management, and business studies generally.

This text introduces readers to the key principles underlying purchasing and supply chain management. It provides them with an in-depth discussion of purchasing and supply issues both from a strategic and managerial perspective.

This is the ground-breaking new book for aspiring purchasing and supply chain leaders and anyone with a keen interest in this rapidly evolving field. For too long business has focused on short-term cost advantages through low-cost country sourcing with little regard for the longer-term implications of global sustainability. As the first book to fully address the environmental, social and economic challenges of how companies manage purchasing and supply chains, it aims to inspire the development of current and future purchasing and supply chain leaders. In addition to explaining the basic principles and processes of both purchasing and supply chain management, the book evaluates how to develop strategic and sustainable purchasing and supply chain management. A key message is that purchasing and supply chain management needs to focus on value creation rather than cost cutting. This requires the development of completely new purchasing and supply chain models that involve closed-loop supply structures, supply chain transparency and collaboration with new stakeholders in traditional sourcing and supply chain processes. Aimed at students, educators and practitioners the book integrates sustainability into each chapter as a core element of purchasing and supply chain management. Incorporating case studies from industry into each chapter, the book strikes a balance between theoretical frameworks and guidelines for implementation in practice.

This book is designed to meet the needs of the modern manager as a practical guide and to satisfy the requirements of students of purchasing management, whether functional, specialist or general.

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This book should be of interest to technical managers, manufacturing and industrial engineers, and graduate students in IE and quality.

"The twelfth edition has been substantially updated with many additions in the form of more detailed case studies, additional academic content and the inclusion of more practical examples of best practice in many key areas. Some of them are: the inclusion of three self-assessment tasks at the end of each chapter; a comprehensive review of the future of procurement; material explaining the long-term changes in strategy in response to supply disruptions caused by disasters and by the Covid pandemic inserted into various chapters; a revised chapter considering Industry 4.0 tools such as e-procurement, Blockchain, the Internet of Things, Big Data, artificial intelligence (AI), bots, digitalisation and analytics; diversity and supplier diversity considered in detail; the inclusion of supply chain resilience approaches; considerable coverage of sustainability provided across relevant chapters; the inclusion of social value strategies and approaches; the inclusion of virtual negotiation approaches in response to the growing trend of working from home; in the wake of the Covid pandemic, updated additional material exploring offshoring/onshoring; third sector/not-for-profit procurement considered; additional material for coverage of risk; consideration of just-in-case inventory as a method of improving resilience; the inclusion of the procurement of consultancy; the inclusion of a Contract Management Cycle; retail procurement completely revised to include omnichannel challenges and digital tools; supplier relationship management (SRM) expanded to include two-way, 360-degree relationship measurement; the addition of quality function deployment (QFD) and the House of Quality (HOQ); ratio analysis for analysing financial viability of suppliers now included"--