Purchasing and Supply Management or Classical Hollywood Cinema

Purchasing and Supply Management: A Strategic Approach

Author: Victor H H Pooler

Offering a global perspective, this down to earth, yet advanced and technically detailed book addresses a multitude of management, purchasing, and negotiation principles and techniques based on an understanding of the basic job of purchasing and supply management. This evolutionary work aims to re-engineer and shape a progressive vision of the purchasing and supply management concepts, enabling readers to implement buying practices that effectively integrate outside suppliers with their company's needs. Purchasing and Supply Management: Creating the Vision is written for the professional by a team of practitioners whose world-wide acumen and writings span a total of 60 years experience that includes commercial and military buying. The book's unique outlook will appeal to an extended audience. In particular, professional managers and buyers, professional practitioners and students studying purchasing will have a distinct need for this book.

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This technical handbook and reference offers a global perspective on management, purchasing, and negotiation principles and techniques for a variety of buyers of goods: wholesalers, contract or distribution buyers, industrial buyers, technical buyers, and others. Topics range from basic issues such as the role of the purchasing and supply functions and the evolution of purchasing and supply management to developing a global vision, legal issues in buying, and transportation strategies to reduce logistics costs. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	The Role of the Purchasing and Supply Functions	1
2	Evolution of Purchasing and Supply Management	18
3	Developing Purchase Order Procedures	39
4	Strategic Purchasing Supply Initiatives	56
5	Buying from the Right Supplier	76
6	Develop a Global Vision!	99
7	Building Rapport with Suppliers - Transition from Supplier to Business Partner	121
8	Buying the Right Quality	143
9	Purchasing's Strategic Approach to Inventory Management Inventory Objectives	163
10	Buying at the "Right" Price	191
11	Negotiations - Keystone of Effective Buying	215
12	Global Supply Demands Technical Buying Cooperation	229
13	Using Cost Reduction Techniques	247
14	Legal Issues in Buying	266
15	Buying for Service-Type Companies, and MRO	291
16	Improving Management of the Purchasing Job	303
17	Transportation Strategies to Reduce Logistics Costs	316
18	Measurements of Purchasing Performance	335
19	A Look into the Future	359
App	Job descriptions	364
	Selected Bibliography	369
	Index	373
	Biographies of the Authors	381

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Classical Hollywood Cinema: Film Style and Mode of Production to 1960

Author: David Bordwell

A tour de force . . . destined to become itself a classic in film studies and a magnificent introduction to the American cinema for a much wider audience. (American Film)

American Film

A tour de force . . . destined to become itself a classic in film studies and a magnificent introduction to the American cinema for a much wider audience.