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- Fills gaps in the serious student’s library between the descriptive and the analytical problem-solving approaches, and between the systemic and the strategic approaches to sourcing. It does this without either sacrificing accessibility or demanding mathematical ability
- Provides a modern interdisciplinary and holistic view of sourcing strategy
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About this book
Sourcing Strategy is about sourcing as a long term strategic activity. Myopic purchasing management stops short with describing functional procedures and procedural innovations such as online order processing.
The goal of this book is not merely to document sourcing strategy, but to provide the tools to determine it. Therefore, rather than merely describe common sourcing processes, the book takes a normative approach to sourcing strategy. It argues for a rational, complete and integrated process view. It supports its recommendations with logical arguments from an interdisciplinary and analytical approach grounded in microeconomics, law and business strategy.
Part 1 of the book explains the economic and business principles that underlie sourcing strategies. It derives policies that guide viable strategies to meet sourcing goals. Part 2 applies these to creative designs for standard sourcing scenarios.
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Design
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Back Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sourcing Strategy
Book Subtitle: Principles, Policy and Designs
Authors: Sudhi Seshadri
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/b106908
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-25182-0Published: 07 April 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8413-5Published: 22 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-25183-7Published: 05 December 2005
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 319
Topics: Procurement, Management, Business and Management, general