Purchase Order Management Best Practices: Process, Technology, and Change Management - Hardcover

Ehap H. Sabri; Arun Gupta; Michael Beitler

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1932159630 ISBN 13: 9781932159639

Publisher: J. Ross Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

In today's competitive business climate, companies with effective procurement strategies are beginning to separate themselves from the competition. Successful purchase order management (POM) is now a critical core competency and organizations in all industries have started investigating tools and techniques to help them succeed. Purchase Order Management Best Practices brings together the field's latest advances and gives business professionals a comprehensive framework for lowering costs, improving efficiency, eliminating non-value added activities, and optimizing the transformation program for the POM process. It offers practical, proven tactics and detailed guidance into every aspect of POM process redesign: mapping the existing process, intelligently leveraging new technologies, building a strategy for strengthening the relationship with suppliers, identifying comprehensive related metrics, and much more, including industry success stories and lessons learned. Although POM process transformation is a hot topic, there is not a single book that focuses on the recipe of success for a POM transformation program. This text fills the gap by providing a breakthrough start-to-finish roadmap for organizations to implement the POM transformation program successfully.

About this title

About the Author

Ehap Sabri, Ph.D., has 15 years of professional experience in software development, process mapping, project management, system analysis, advance planning & scheduling, and e-business solutions in a variety of industries. Currently, he holds the position of Senior Solution Architect at i2 Technologies in Dallas, Texas, and is also an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas and University of Texas at Dallas teaching advanced supply chain management and logistics courses for the MBA and Ph.D. programs. Dr. Sabri has a doctorate in Industrial Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, is a PRACTX Author for CAPS (Center for Strategic Supply Research), has presented in several industry meetings and has published more than 10 conference and journal papers. Arun Gupta, Ph.D., has 15 years of professional experience in consulting and architecting e-business solutions, process improvement, project management, software development, and system analysis. Currently, he is an advisor for a large industrial manufacturing organization. Previously, he was a research associate at the Supply Chain Resource Consortium at North Carolina State University developing a supply chain maturity model. Mr. Gupta's recent research focus has been on architecting multi-organization e-business solutions, supply chain maturity, and distributed order management. Dr. Michael Beitler, Ph.D., has 30 years of professional experience as an executive, consultant, and university professor. His consulting clients include Fortune 100 companies and mid-sized firms in manufacturing, distribution, retailing, banking, publishing, and government. Mr. Beitler is a professor of business practice in the MBA program of the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and a visiting professor of management at the University of Mannheim's Business School (Germany's #1 ranked business school). He is also the author of two books, including the best-selling Strategic Organizational Change.

From the Back Cover

"...the definitive reference book on purchase order management as well as a guide to new procurement management practices. This is a must read for everyone involved with the practice or study of purchasing management and for many in the field of supply chain management."

-- Michael E. McGrath, CEO and President, i2 Technologies, Inc.

"As a long time practitioner in the supply chain arena, I would like to commend the authors for producing a comprehensive study of the processes we have all struggled with in the management of the purchase order process. Their thorough examination of the `how to' should be a great guide for today's supply chain executives."

-- Samuel Straight, Former GlaxoSmithKline Executive

"...offers thought leadership for those striving to improve their POM process and a practical approach that is equally effective for all functional areas whether just starting or already on the road to supply transformation."

-- Thomas Nash, VP & CPO, Cendant TDS

Edition details

• Publisher: J. Ross Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1932159630
• ISBN 13: 9781932159639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248