Managing Buyer-Supplier Relations: The Winning Edge Through Specification Management (Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks) [Hardcover]

Rajesh Nellore (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 21, 2001 | ISBN-10: 0415253039 | ISBN-13: 978-0415253031 | Edition: 1

Managing suppliers is a complex process that is often underestimated. This book presents research carried out by a practising manager in the automotive industry, coupled with over six hundred interviews with representatives from the automotive, aircraft and white goods industries, in order to describe the tools and techniques needed to better manage suppliers. The work offers a specification perspective, and includes analysis of models for outsourcing, visions for suppliers for capacity building, meaning of specification flow and the future of managing suppliers, including systems supply and digital procurement.

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'Detailed (academic) study for a specialist market. Based particularly on automobile industry developments. A more important subject than generally recognised.' - Long Range Planning

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (September 21, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415253039
• ISBN-13: 978-0415253031
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,378,509 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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