Effective Strategic Sourcing
Beschreibung:
Modern supply chains are enjoying new opportunities for innovation and growth. Build competitive advantage, optimize cost and encourage ethical business practices with the process of strategic sourcing.
Effective Strategic Sourcing brings together tools and techniques to develop comprehensive sourcing strategies and drive performance and margin improvement in an ethical, environmentally responsible way. From supplier research and risk analysis to category management and cost modelling, it answers key questions around make versus buy, outsource versus insource and RFI versus RFP.
Top supply chain leaders from a range of industries offer their insights and experience in interviews covering the challenges inherent in modern strategic sourcing. The book also focuses on how supply chain and procurement professionals can address sustainability concerns by thinking globally and acting locally and aiming for net-zero carbon footprint sourcing. Learn from the experts and thrive in the 'new normal' with this essential guide to maximising the benefits of strategic sourcing.
- Chapter - 01: Establishing strategic sourcing success criteria;
- Chapter - 02: Supply market research;
- Chapter - 03: Supplier research;
- Chapter - 04: Make versus buy decisions;
- Chapter - 05: Outsource versus insource;
- Chapter - 06: Supply risk analysis;
- Chapter - 07: Category management;
- Chapter - 08: Thinking local acting global;
- Chapter - 09: Zero carbon footprint sourcing;
- Chapter - 10: RFI versus RFP;
- Chapter - 11: Strategic sourcing tools and techniques;
- Chapter - 12: Ecosystem mapping and value chain dynamics;
- Chapter - 13: Cost modelling and pricing models;
- Chapter - 14: Sustaining competitive pricing over time;
- Chapter - 15: Advanced negotiation skills;
- Chapter - 16: Supplier performance management