World Class Supply Management: The Key to Supply Chain Management with Student CD - ROM (Hardcover)

~ David Burt (Author), Donald Dobler (Author), Stephen Starling (Author)

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The best-selling textbook in purchasing and supply management through several editions, this book presents a practical framework for students to apply how firms actually manage the enterprise-wide functions of purchasing and supply in today's business environment. This edition represents a complete and thorough revision of the book, now explaining purchasing and supply management in the context of the supply chain, which. has begun to dominate the literature in the field. World Class Supply ManagementSM: The Key to Supply Chain Management, Seventh Edition, reflects that change in focus, right down to the title (formerly called, more traditionally, Purchasing and Supply Management; now with the subtitle that specifically references the book's increased focus on supply-chain issues). New chapters have been added to the beginning and end of the text, to frame the new discussion of supply chain issues. The book has also been thoroughly updated to reflect the realities of purchasing and supply management in the digital age.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 689 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin; 7 edition (July 19, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072831561
• ISBN-13: 978-0072831566
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #166,920 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The core Purchasing text that must be on your shelf., February 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Purchasing and Supply Management (Hardcover)

This is the textbook that every Purchasing professional must have on the shelf. It is written by the gurus in the field that helped to define the profession and set standards by developing the professional certification requirements.

The book establishes common language to describe Purchasing core processes that are applicable across industry and organizational lines. Because of the common language it establishes it can be really helpfull for someone who has been in a single industry or organization for some time that wants to transition to another industry but only knows the terms from their previos field.

For example someone involved in government procurement wishing to transition to the private sector might find the book usefull. Furthermore, it is written in the same language as appears on the NAPM APP and CPM examinations.

I have used the book both in a Purchasing Masters Degree Program at St Marys College in California and also in a Purchasing Certificate Program offered by the University of Phoenix and the material and cases are always well received by the students. The cases in particular are good and provide a common ground for people who have used the book.

There are some other books out there and new gurus are emerging but for now this is still the best.

William J. Kohnen Instructor University of Phoenix

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Dated text, repetetive material, March 3, 2009

By	Jackie (TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: World Class Supply Management: The Key to Supply Chain Management (Paperback)

This book is required for one of my college supply chain courses, and I found it to be very dated. The chapters repeat the same things over and over again, and don't add much of anything new. My professor is great, but this text is not.

8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good reference but outdated, November 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Purchasing and Supply Management (Hardcover)

My instructor at college who is on the Board of NAPM made this the class text. The book is obsolete from its discussion of technology in purchasing but otherwise is good. It emphasizes qualitative methods and is very soft on quantitative analysis of practical business problems. There is a shortage of case studies but overall this is a good book.Being useful to take the NAPM exam, NAPM has expanded some definitions in the book that are not commonly held in other college courses. For example, my instructor docked me 10 points on a question asking for the 4 elements of a contract,which are different from what commercial law and the UCC dictate. NAPM has redefined some terms so be wary.