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Power Purchasing: Supply Management in the 21st Century - Hardcover

 
9780945456131: Power Purchasing: Supply Management in the 21st Century
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A practical guide for business people and companies who want to align themselves with the paradigm taking place as Purchasing evolves into Supply Management. A roadmap through all areas of procurement, materials management and negotiations. Benchmarking, team building, service organization and millennium modeling are brought together, showing how a company can reengineer its materials and procurement functions.

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Power Purchasing: Supply Management in the 21st Century is a practical guide for business people and companies who want to align themselves with the paradigm shift taking place as purchasing evolves into supply management. The book is a roadmap taking you through all the areas of procurement, materials management and negotiations. Benchmarking, team-building, service orientation and millennium modeling are brought together to show how a company can reengineer its materials and procurement functions.

This book offers you the following benefits: A purchasing strategy for the next century. Don't be left out. New trends in purchasing & supply management to cut costs and increase profits. Ideas and action plans for the shapers of the new business world. A paradigm for success in supply management.

About the Author:
Peter L. Grieco, Jr., is a Partner with Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group, an international consulting and education firm specializing in the areas of Just-In-Time, Total Quality Control, Automation and Systems Implementation. He was active in the development of Apple Computer's Macintosh Automated Focus Factory in Fremont, California. His industry experience encompasses both repetitive and discrete manufacturing processes. He has more than twenty-five years of experience as a practitioner and educator in the manufacturing environment. He has held numerous operation and financial positions, as well as having responsibility for numerous sales management and marketing departments.

Mr. Grieco presently serves on the Stanford Research Institute Advisory Board (SRI) and is a member of the American Society for Quality Control (ASQC), the National Association of Purchasing Management, and the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) where he has held positions as: Education and Research Foundation Director, National Secretary/Treasurer, Vice President of Region I (New England), and Past President of the Hartford chapter.

Mr. Grieco is the author of several Purchasing and JIT/TQC textbooks: Purchasing Ethics, MRO Purchasing, Supply Management Toolbox, Supplier Certification II: A Handbook for Achieving Excellence Through Continuous Improvement, and World Class: Measuring Its Achievements. He has also coauthored of these latest JIT/TQC textbooks: Made In America - The Total Business Concept, Just-In-Time Purchasing: In Pursuit of Excellence, Behind Bars: Bar Coding Principles and Applications, and The World of Negotiations: Never Being A Loser. He attended Central Connecticut State University and Wharton School of Finance (Moody's School of Commerce). He is a frequent lecturer for numerous professional societies, seminars, conferences, and numerous university programs on Operations Management and Just-In-Time/Total Quality Control related topics. He is also recognized in Inventory Management for his contribution to education and training.

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  • PublisherP T Pubns
  • Publication date1995
  • ISBN 10 0945456131
  • ISBN 13 9780945456131
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages205

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