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Profitable buying strategies : how to cut procurement costs and buy your way to higher profits /

Profitable Buying Strategies explains how companies can increase their profitability by delivering major cost savings through successful procurement. The book will demonstrate how to achieve profit improvement through cost reduction, buying internationally, negotiation, e-procurement, market-testing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Buchanan, Mike, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Philadelphia : Kogan Page, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of figures; List of tables; List of case studies; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The philosophy and psychology of buying; 2 Important buying-related concepts; 3 Effective tools and techniques; 4 The changes that deliver cost reduction; 5 Market testing; 6 Outsourcing and insourcing; 7 Negotiation; 8 Contracts and contract law; 9 E-procurement; 10 Organizational issues; Appendix 1 Service level agreement (SLA); Appendix 2 Template for a request for proposal (RFP) for the supply of goods and/or services.