Delivering Customer Value through Procurement and Strategic Sourcing A Professional Guide to Creating A Sustainable Supply Network

This is the complete executive's guide to driving sustainable competitive advantage and mitigating risk in today's complex supply networks. Two of the field's leading consultants show senior managers how to apply advanced strategic sourcing to significantly improve your supply chain's efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability.

Drawing on their cutting-edge research, Yusen Xia and Walter L. Wallace help you go beyond mere cost-cutting and contract management to redesign and orchestrate your entire multi-tier supply chain. Wallace and Xia present powerful case studies and lessons from UPS, Coca-Cola, Home Depot, Shaw Industries, and other pioneers. You'll learn how to:

• Bring together the multiple business disciplines whose work impacts sourcing and procurement
• Use strategic sourcing techniques to create a more sustainable supply chain
• Integrate the use of emission permits into your strategic sourcing programs
• Manage procurement when the cost of raw materials fluctuates widely
• Effectively utilize financial hedging in strategic sourcing
• Deepen your understanding of contemporary buyer-supplier relationships
• Implement strategic lead-time management
• Increase visibility as a way to become more demand-driven
• Take advantage of recent advances in e-sourcing and e-procurement
• More effectively manage risk and uncertainty in your supply network
• Make better outsourcing/insourcing decisions in global supply chains

If you're a senior manager who wants to transform sourcing and procurement into a key competitive differentiator, this book will help you deliver the goods.

Dr. Yusen Xia (Atlanta, GA area) is Associate Professor of Managerial Sciences at GSU's J. Mack College of Business. His research interests include managing supply chain uncertainties and risks; links between operations and marketing, and behavioral operations management. He has published in Operations Research, Decision Sciences, and other leading journals.His research has been supported by several companies, including Amazon.com. He is a member of INFORMS and DSI.

Walter L. Wallace (Atlanta, GA area) is Professor of Managerial Sciences at the J. Mack College of Business, Georgia State University, and Executive Director of its Global Logistics RoundTable. He has 30+ years of expertise in heavy manufacturing industry and service industries, with an emphasis in corporate management, strategic planning, marketing, operation, logistics and transportation. Wallace also serves on the Gwinnett Technical College Council of Advisors, Gwinnett County Chamber of Commerce Education Committee, and Mississippi State University Engineering Board.

Introduction

1. Purchasing, Procurement and Strategic Sourcing

2. Managing Sourcing and Procurement Processes

3. Strategic Sourcing and Delivering Customer Value

4. The Size of the Organization Spend and Financial Significance

5. Understanding Buyer-Supplier Relationships

6. Value Creation for Global Procurement Competitiveness

7. Procurement Under Raw Material Fluctuation

8. Contemporary Advances in the Areas of E-sourcing and E-Procurement

9. Strategic Sourcing and Creating a Sustainable Supply Chain

10. Strategic Lead-Time Management

11. The Use of Emission Permits in Strategic Sourcing

12. The Use of Financial Hedging in Strategic Sourcing

13. Visibility as an Attribute to Becoming Demand-Driven

14. Managing Risk in the Supply Network

15. Outsourcing: Sourcing is complicated - Global Sourcing Even More So

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