Managing Purchasing: Organizing, Planning and Control

This book clearly demonstrates how managers can increase profit and enhance value money and overall performance through effective purchasing management. It develops a systematic approach to dealing with the operational aspects of purchasing, offering ready to use methods and techniques to enhance every manager's decision-making skills.
It is a highly practical handbook in which the authors explain by practical example and provide realistic solutions to everyday purchasing problems. All jargon and terminology are clearly defined (there is also a glossary) and mathematical examples are explained step-by-step.
Managing Purchasing will be an invaluable reference source for all those managers with a responsibility for purchasing, striving to make their company successful in the highly competitive world of manufacturing in the 1990s. It is approriate for managers from all areas of an organization, not just those with formal purchasing training, but also for students currently taking courses in purchasing.