Purchasing and Supply Chain Management (Hardcover)

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Product Description

Purchasing is the culmination of discussions with top purchasing executives developed through an initiative known as the Global Procurement and Supply Chain Benchmarking Initiative at Michigan State University. The authors' experiences combine to create a managerial perspective of the core tasks and challenges required to effectively manage the purchasing function. This text is unique in that it is the first purchasing textbook to employ a truly strategic perspective. While prior books have dealt with many components of buying materials, the authors have sought to identify the contributions that purchasing can make to corporate and business strategies, through the development of integrated procurement and sourcing strategies. The book contains twenty cases that have been developed and used in the classroom.

About the Author

Dr. Robert M. Monczka is Director, Strategic Sourcing and Supply Chain Strategy Research, The Center for Advanced Purchasing Studies (CAPS); Distinguished Research Professor of Supply Chain Management, The College of Business at Arizona State University(ASU) and a National Association of Purchasing Management (NAPM) Professor at ASU. He is also Professor Emeritus, The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University. For over 25 years, Dr. Monczka has researched, taught and consulted about strategic purchasing/sourcing and supply chain management strategies and implementation processes. He directed and lead a "first-of-its-kind" third party benchmarking initiative and has been Principle Investigator on two major National Science Foundation projects in the area of procurement and supply chain best strategy and practice. Over the years, he has advised senior executives in more than 200 of the Fortune 500 companies worldwide. He is currently leading CAPS Research Project 10X aimed at breakthrough performance improvements. Dr. Monczka has authored six books and over one hundred publications throughout his career. He is Contributing Editor on Sourcing Strategy for Purchasing Magazine and Associate Editor of the Journal of Supply Chain Management.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 760 pages
• Publisher: South-Western College Pub; 2 edition (July 20, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0324023154
• ISBN-13: 978-0324023152
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #664,815 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great reference work, July 24, 2000

By	Dick Locke (Walnut Creek, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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

If you want one book explaining state-of-the-art thinking in procurement, this is the one. It has chapters on every important topic. It's not a book I would choose to read from beginning to end to learn about purchasing (unless I were a University student) but it's a good starting point for looking deeper into many topics.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A boring book with nothing new to share, September 6, 2007

By	The Simple Fact (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Purchasing and Supply Chain (with InfoTrac ) (Hardcover)

This book offers nothing new in concepts nor does it necessarily make it an interesting reading. You will immediately notice that the authors have just tried to add a lot of pages to the text by stating the same things over and over and over and over. Redundancy is the mantra of this book. I would not pay more than $25 for this book as all it offers is a very simple description and overview of the Purchasing function and Supply Chain Management. There are a lot of better books out there in the market than this one. So, don't waste your money please.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good vision, April 26, 2000

By A Customer

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

One of the best of its type - good mix of strategic and tactical. could have been shorter