Best practice procurement : public and private sector perspectives / edited by Andrew Erridge, Ruth Fee, and John McIlroy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Erridge, Andrew.

Fee, Ruth

McIlroy, John, 1973-

International Purchasing and Supply Education Research Association. Conference 1999 : Belfast, Ireland and Dublin, Ireland)

Charles R. Anderson Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business logistics.

Delivery of goods--Management.

Delivery of goods.

Physical Description:

xxv, 257 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Gower, [2001]

Contents:

Part 1 Supply chain management 1

1 Co-evolutionary purchasing: several steps beyond supply chain management? / Laura Forker, Peter Stannack 5

2 Power, cost and value appropriation in the publishing supply and value chain / Glyn Watson, Andrew Cox, Eleftheria Noula 13

3 The role of main contractors in developing customer focus up and down construction's supply chain / Mohammed Saad, Martyn Jones 22

4 Environmental purchasing: tools of engagement / J. Gordon Murray, Valerie E. Cupples 33

5 A comprehensive conceptual model for managing environmental impacts, costs and risks in supply chains / Richard Lamming, Paul Cousins, Frances Bowen, Adam Faruk 42

Part 2 Outsourcing and partnership 51

6 Outsourcing: a national and sector level perspective on policy and practice / Louise Knight, Christine Harland 55

7 A framework for classification of services to gain strategic purchasing insights / Johanna Rantala (nee Stenberg), Veli-Matti Virolainen 63

8 Supplier classification as an enabler for a differentiated purchasing strategy / Johan Lilliecreutz, Lars Ydreskog 73

9 Beyond the 'core versus non-core' logic: the need for a contingency model for effective outsourcing in the public and private sectors / Andrew Cox, Chris Lonsdale, Glyn Watson 82

10 The role of power in partnership relationships: an empirical investigation of the current body of knowledge / Arjan van Weele, Frank Rozemeijer 90

Part 3 Organization and management 101

11 From ideology to action: options, issues, roadblocks and realities of driving change in purchasing and supply / Jon Hughes 107

12 Getting to the fundamentals in procurement training / Howard McCulloch 116

13 A cross-sector comparison of purchasing team use / P. Fraser Johnson, Michiel R. Leenders, Robert D. Klassen, Harold E. Fearon 127

14 A quart from a pint pot? Developing the effective use of purchasing consortia / John Ritchie, Tom Chadwick 136

Part 4 Electronic commerce 143

15 The impact of electronic commerce on purchasing in the supply chain / John Fraser, Nuran Fraser, Frank McDonald 149

16 The strategic contribution of e-commerce to MRO procurement / Simon R. Croom 160

17 Supporting decentralized supplier management by publishing tenders on the Internet / W. Brenner, G. Wilking 169

18 Making use of Internet technology to achieve lean management in the West Midlands automotive supply chain / D.M. Thompson, G.R. Homer, P. Costello, S. Garner 177

19 Purchasing consortia and Internet technology / Daniel Corsten, Michael Zagler 184

Part 5 Performance evaluation 193

20 Performance evaluation within the DVLA / Ann Esain, David Griffiths, Peter Hines 197

21 Purchasing performance in the UK's Higher Education sector - functional measures to help in strategic development for the 21st century / Florence Gregg 207

22 Benchmarking for strategic procurement: practices of Polish companies in an international context / Danuta Kisperska-Moron 220

23 Textbook methods for auditing purchasing and supply management: do they work in practice? / Hannu Vanharanta 230

24 Process management and performance measurement in the supply chain: a food distribution case / Donna Samuel, Peter Hines 238.

Notes:

"Based on a selection of papers presented at the 8th International Annual IPSERA Conference, held on 28-31 March 1999 in elfast and Dublin"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles R. Anderson Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

0566083663

OCLC:

44613255