Purchasing and Supply Chain Management - Hardcover

Monczka, Robert M.; Trent, Robert J.; Handfield, Robert B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0324023154 ISBN 13: 9780324023152

Publisher: South-Western College Pub, 2001

Synopsis

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 forty cases that have been developed and used in the classroom.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert M. Monczka, Ph.D., is the former Distinguished Research Professor of Supply Chain Management in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and Professor Emeritus at the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management, Michigan State University. He also served as director of Strategic Sourcing and Supply Chain Strategy Research at CAPS Research, where he led initiatives focused on sourcing and supply strategy innovation, development, and implementation. A frequent speaker at professional meetings, Dr. Monczka has published more than 200 books and articles. He has consulted worldwide with leading companies in the Fortune 100 and has received two National Science Foundation grants to study supply strategy.

About this edition

• Publisher: South-Western College Pub
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0324023154
• ISBN 13: 9780324023152
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 760