Summary Purchasing and Supply Chain Management: Strategies and Realities
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Table of Contents
Foreword .......................................................................................... viii
Preface ............................................................................................... ix
Chapter I.
Developments in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management...
Purchasing and Supply
Chain Management:
Strategies and Realities
Michael Quayle
University of Glamorgan, UK
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Purchasing and supply chain management : strategies and realities / Michael Quayle, editor.-- 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: "This book shows readers how to develop supply chain strategy and implementation
and use it gain an advantage in the 21st century competitive marketplace"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-59140-899-7 (hardcover) -- ISBN 1-59140-900-4 (softcover) -- ISBN 1-59140-901-2
(ebook)
1. Business logistics--Management. 2. Strategic planning. I. Quayle, Michael, 1947-
HD38.5.P87 2006
658.7--dc22
2005023882
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All work contributed to this book is new, previously-unpublished material. The views expressed in
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Purchasing and Supply
Chain Management:
Strategies and Realities
Table of Contents
Foreword .......................................................................................... viii
Preface ............................................................................................... ix
Chapter I.
Developments in Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
and Logistics .................................................................................. 1
Procurement, Purchasing, Outsourcing, Supply Management and
Supply Chain Management ......................................................... 1
The Sustainable Supply Chain ......................................................... 9
Resource-Based View and Competitive Advantage ........................ 10
Business Issues in the 21st Century ................................................. 13
Supply Chains into the Future ....................................................... 14
Supply Chain Education ................................................................ 16
Professional Competence: Food for Thought ................................ 19
Chapter II.
Strategic Purchasing Management ................................................... 21
Corporate Planning ...................................................................... 21
Purchasing Planning and Purchasing Strategies ........................... 27
Corporate and Environmental Factors ......................................... 29
Strategic Planning ........................................................................ 29
Market Strategic Flexibility........................................................... 30
Objectives and Responsibilities ...................................................... 30
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