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In association with IPSERA (International Purchasing and Supply
Education and Research Association)
Best practice procurement is a key contributor to any organization’s
strategic goals, but requirements and experience differ between sectors:
this book provides a range of perspectives on subjects central to
improving purchasing performance across public and private, manufacturing
and service sectors. Consisting of five Parts:
• Supply chain management;
• Outsourcing and partnership;
• Organization and management;
• Electronic commerce; and
• Performance evaluation,
this book comprises a range of cutting-edge, refereed contributions from
the 1999 International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research
Association meeting. The authors combine both leading academics and key
professionals from organizations leading the way in challenging current
approaches to procurement practice. The bringing together of both the
world of research and business provides the opportunity to present
evidence grounded in valid theory and methodology in order to develop
better practice as transferable strategies and techniques, rather than
one-off, quick fix ‘solutions’. Best Practice Procurement will appeal
to anyone working or studying in a procurement-related function to whom a
deeper understanding of how to improve procurement’s contribution to the
achievement of organizations’ strategic goals is important.
Reviews
'I enjoyed what the book had to say from many perspectives, but
particularly the balanced debate it provides between theory and practice.
Practitioners are able to dip into sections of particular interest and
obtain a variety of options on how to move forward. It provides much food
for thought on good practice today and I would recommend it to anyone who
enjoys the wider debate of the effectiveness of the profession and the
value we can deliver.' Supply Management, June 2001
Contents
Introduction. Part One Supply Chain Management: Introduction;
Co-evolutionary purchasing - several steps beyond supply chain management?
- Laura Forker and Peter Stannack; Power, cost and value appropriation in
the publishing supply and value chain - Glyn Watson, Andrew Cox and
Eleftheria Noula; The role of main contractors in developing customer
focus up and down construction's supply chain - Mohammed Saad and Martyn
Jones; Environmental purchasing - tools of engagement - J Gordon Murray
and Valerie E Cupples; A comprehensive conceptual model for managing
environmental impacts, costs and risks in supply chains - Richard Lamming,
Paul Cousins, Frances Bowen and Adam Faruk. Part Two Outsourcing and
Partnership: Introduction; Outsourcing - a national and sector level
perspective on policy and practice - Louise Knight and Christine Harland;
A framework for classification of services to gain strategic purchasing
insights - Johanna Rantala (née Stenberg) and Veli-Matti Virolainen;
Supplier classification as an enabler for a differentiated purchasing
strategy - Johan Lilliecreutz and Lars Ydreskog; Beyond the 'core versus
non-core' logic - the need for a contingency model for effective
outsourcing in the public and private sectors - Andrew Cox, Chris Lonsdale
and Glyn Watson; The role of power in partnership relationships - an
empirical investigation of the current body of knowledge - Arjan van Weele
and Frank Rozemeijer. Part Three Organization and Management:
Introduction; From ideology to action - options, issues, roadblocks and
realities of driving change in purchasing and supply - Jon Hughes; Getting
to the fundamentals in procurement training - Howard McCulloch; A
cross-sector comparison of purchasing team use - P Fraser Johnson, Michiel
R Leenders, Robert D Klassen and Harold E Fearon; A quart from a pint pot?
- developing the effective use of purchasing consortia - John Ritchie and
Tom Chadwick. Part Four Electronic Commerce: Introduction; The impact of
electronic commerce on purchasing in the supply chain - John Fraser, Nuran
Fraser and Frank McDonald; The strategic contribution of e-commerce to MRO
procurement - Simon R Croom; Supporting decentralized supplier management
by publishing tenders on the Internet - W Brenner and G Wilking; Making
use of Internet technology to achieve lean management in the West Midlands
automotive supply chain - D M Thompson, G R Homer, P Costello and S
Garner; Purchasing consortia and Internet technology - Daniel Corsten and
Michael Zagler. Part Five Performance Evaluation: Introduction;
Procurement evaluation within the DVLA - Ann Esain, David Griffiths and
Peter Hines; Purchasing performance in the UK's Higher Education sector -
functional measures to help in strategic development for the 21st century
- Florence Gregg; Benchmarking for strategic procurement - practices of
Polish companies in an international context - Danuta Kisperska-Moron;
Textbook methods for auditing purchasing and supply management - do they
work in practice? - Hannu Vanharanta; Process management and performance
measurement in the supply chain - a food distribution case - Donna Samuel
and Peter Hines; Index.
About the Authors
Andrew Erridge is Professor of Public Policy and Management at the
University of Ulster, where he runs courses in strategic procurement
management and carries out research mainly on public procurement. His
publications include books on purchasing competences and managing
purchasing. He is a committee member and former chair of IPSERA.
Ruth Fee is a Lecturer in Government in the School of Public Policy,
Economics and Law at the University of Ulster. Her teaching and research
interests are in public procurement law and policy, and European law and
policy.
John McIlroy has a Postgraduate Diploma in Purchasing and Supply
Management from the University of Ulster. He has worked as a researcher in
public procurement at the University of Ulster and has published articles
on supply chain strategy, competitive tendering and electronic
procurement. He is now working for an Internet company providing
information and electronic commerce services to local government.
£85.00 / US$144.95 ISBN: 0 566 08366 3 April 2001 288
pages Hardback
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