Profit-focused supplier management : how to identify risks and recognize opportunities / Pirkko Ostring.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ostring, Pirkko, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial procurement--Management.

Industrial procurement.

Purchasing--Management.

Purchasing.

Physical Description:

xviii, 238 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : AMACOM, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Managing suppliers can contribute enormous savings to a company's bottom line, and few companies have done it better than Nokia. In Profit-Focused Supplier Management , Pirkko #65533;string details for the first time the supplier management program that has helped make Nokia the world leader in mobile communications. Drawing from her experience at Nokia, #65533;string reveals how to understand and maximize relationships with suppliers to help any company minimize risk and improve profitability in any industry. Profit-Focused Supplier Management will motivate top management to uncover more information about their suppliers, enable purchasing managers to select better suppliers, and give business controllers a tool for limiting risks and improving their companies' financial standing. Profit-Focused Supplier Management is the first book written to address suppliers as ongoing business management opportunities. The book uses factual examples from companies including Intel and Marconi that provide an easy and interesting way to adopt the theoretical frameworks into practical formats. Additionally, fictional cases, based on the author's findings, illustrate the importance of in-depth analyses."

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Acknowledgments

A Strategy for Analyzing Your Suppliers

Why Analyze Your Suppliers?

Choosing Which Suppliers to Analyze

Components of a Corporate Analysis of Suppliers

Creating a Corporate Analysis

Investigating What Is Behind Financial Figures

Assets Liabilities

Current assets Contents

Noncurrent assets Contents

Current liabilities Contents

Analyzing Qualitative Factors

Examples

Using Analyzing Tools and Useful Templates

Studying Examples

For More Information

Glossary

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8144-0998-9

0-8144-2755-3

OCLC:

647482227