Overview
- Applies a scientific approach to understand practical purchasing challenges and their solutions
- Broadens the scope of current approaches to purchasing management and strategy
- Integrates pricing, supply chain knowledge with behavioral insights from psychology
Part of the book series: Management for Professionals (MANAGPROF)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (15 chapters)
-
Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book was created in the spirit of learning from nature in the field of professional purchasing. It describes real-world purchasing problems faced by companies as well as individuals and presents natural hands-on solutions that apply scientific approaches. The book answers what the core of purchasing could be, the inner structure of it or in other words the natural way. Nature masters effectiveness based on immanent laws and ensures efficiency by best results for minimal invest. Especially in complex and ambiguous situations, purchasers benefit from this book by understanding the broader context with the help of recent scientific research.
Focusing on the problems that purchasers face in managerial practice rather than oversimplified generalizations, the book features step-by-step explanations, allowing readers to find tailored solutions to address challenges in key purchasing areas. The book was written in collaboration and with the help of experts in purchasingand logistics, biology, law and economics, human resource development, media and sports, and merges perspectives from theory and practice to provide natural strategies for purchasers.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Heiko Wöhner is Director Supply Management Automotive OEM at Schaeffler Automotive Buehl GmbH & Co. KG, Bühl, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Nature of Purchasing
Book Subtitle: Insights from Research and Practice
Editors: Florian Schupp, Heiko Wöhner
Series Title: Management for Professionals
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43502-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43501-1Published: 21 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43504-2Published: 22 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43502-8Published: 20 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2192-8096
Series E-ISSN: 2192-810X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 313
Number of Illustrations: 49 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Business Strategy/Leadership