Covers major details that pertain to purchasing supplies and services for business operations. Topics include prudent purchasing strategies, inventory management, dealing with supply sources, negotiating prices, making capital equipment purchases, measuring purchasing performance, and much more. This new edition includes pertinent updates on how market developments impact the modern purchasing function. Titles in Barron's Business Library series are currently being revised and updated, and re-set in an attractive new paperback format. They are written especially for men and women starting a company or managing a small-to-medium-size business. Emphasis is on practical problem solving, and examples cited in these books are based on realistic business situations.
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Great introduction to the purchasing function,
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This easy-to-read text quickly covers the key activities related to purchasing and inventory management; including everything from reorder techniques, to negotiating techniques, to purchasing law. The style of this book is reminiscent of texts published in the early part of the 20th century that focused on quickly getting new managers and clerks up to speed on specific business topics. It avoids the hype of most business books and the pretentious style of most college texts by sticking with short, concise, plain English, treatments of the multitude of topics covered.
The nominal price of this book is a purchasing lesson in itself. This book is a bargain.
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The purchasing function organizes to support the work that is requested of it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
resupply signal, reorder point system, purchasing reports, nonconforming parts, administrative labor, process width, quotation information, demand signal, good business judgment, purchasing cards, purchasing function, purchasing personnel, purchasing management, buying organization, safety stock Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Unit Total Cost, Drury Stamping, Chandler Supply, National Association of Purchasing Management, New York, Uniform Commercial Code, Baker Supply, Hong Kong, Able Elec, Edwards Deming, Sam Supplier, Soviet Union, Sun Tzu New!
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The purchasing function organizes to support the work that is requested of it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
resupply signal, reorder point system, purchasing reports, nonconforming parts, administrative labor, process width, quotation information, demand signal, good business judgment, purchasing cards, purchasing function, purchasing personnel, purchasing management, buying organization, safety stock Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Unit Total Cost, Drury Stamping, Chandler Supply, National Association of Purchasing Management, New York, Uniform Commercial Code, Baker Supply, Hong Kong, Able Elec, Edwards Deming, Sam Supplier, Soviet Union, Sun Tzu New!
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