The Purchasing Handbook, 5th Edition

Title: The Purchasing Handbook, 5th Edition
Author: Donald W. Dobler, Harold E. Fearon, Kenneth H. Killen
ISBN: 0070459185 / 9780070459182
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 800
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Year: 1993
Availability: In Stock

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You'll find numerous valuable keys to success in virtually every area of purchasing management, expertly documented in this bestselling, on-the-job handbook. Whether you work in a one-person department or in a complex operation with hundreds of buyers and purchasing executives, you'll benefit immediately from the easy-to-follow tips and techniques you'll find in these pages. Review the samples of more than 50 different purchasing forms for useful ideas for your own department learn about important legal and ethical practices ... put sure-win purchasing strategies into action ... note how today's corporate environment has changed the purchasing function ... implement proven techniques for pricing and contract administration ... become an effective negotiator... get tips on managing your department for increased productivity ... and much morel. Extensively revised and updated to reflect the challenges and thinking of the 1990s, the Fifth Edition of this encyclopedic handbook retains its incisive focus on issues of major significance to the manufacturing sector, while examining purchasing practices for the new service economy. You'll be crystal clear on the policies and procedures that affect both the manufacturing and service industries with the guidelines presented here. Plus! The Handbook's top-notch contributors, all leaders in the field of purchasing management, examine the very latest techniques and strategies in team buying; new EDI applications; buyer/supplier partnering; computer advances; international sourcing; quality assurance and customer satisfaction; just-in-time (J.l.T.) purchasing systems; hazardous material disposal; purchasing raw materials, commodities, and MRO supplies; purchasing for resale and more! Prepared under the auspices of the National Association of Purchasing Management, this longtime classic also examines the related problems of materials management, inventory, traffic, and the host of other jobs that often fall under the purchasing Department.

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Contributors
Preface

Part 1 : Organizing and Operating the Purchasing Function
Chapter 1 : The Purchasing Function
Chapter 2 : Purchasing Organization
Chapter 3 : Purchasing Policies, Procedures, and Systems
Chapter 4 : Computers in Purchasing/EDI

Part 2 : Fundamentals of Purchasing
Chapter 5 : Sourcing
Chapter 6 : Global Purchasing
Chapter 7 : Pricing
Chapter 8 : Negotiation
Chapter 9 : Contract and Subcontract Administration and Management

Part 3 : Management Responsibilities and Strategies
Chapter 10 : Purchasing Strategy
Chapter 11 : Evaluating Purchasing Performance
Chapter 12 : Ethics and Responsibility
Chapter 13 : Quality Assurance
Chapter 14 : Value analysis and Purchasing Research
Chapter 15 : Forecasting
Chapter 16 : Inventory Management
Chapter 17 : Legal Aspects of Purchasing
Chapter 18 : Investment Recovery
Chapter 19 : Managing Budgets and Operations
Chapter 20 : Managing personnel

Part 4 : Purchasing Practice by Class of Materials of Industry
Chapter 21 : Purchase of Raw Materials, Commodities, and MRO Items
Chapter 22 : The Acquisition of Capital Assets
Chapter 23 : The Purchase of Services
Chapter 24 : Purchasing for Resale
Chapter 25 : Purchasing Inbound Transportation
Chapter 26 : Purchasing in the Service Industry
Chapter 27 : Public/Not-for-Profit Purchasing

Part 5 : Purchasing Information Resources

Index