A short guide to procurement risk / Richard Russill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russill, Richard, 1943-

Series:

Short Guides to Business Risk

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial procurement.

Risk management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (143 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Gower, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Typically, much less regard is paid to external suppliers and the risk present when dealing with them. As a minimum, suppliers are the sources of materials, services and expert attention which enables the company to feed its business model. When done well, a high-performance risk-aware procurement process provides the bonus of competitive advantage, with ability to capitalise, rather than suffer, from the occurrence of unexpected events. This short guide explains how to do it.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; 1 Procurement and Risk - The Big Picture; 2 External Dependencies; 3 Market Conditions and Behaviours; 4 Procurement Process; 5 Management Controls; 6 Handling the Unexpected; 7 Procurement Risk Management - An Integrated Approach; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-351-96161-6

1-282-57232-6

9786612572326

0-566-09219-0

OCLC:

609862263