The Nature of Purchasing Insights from Research and Practice /
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| Summary: | XXI, 313 p. 75 illus., 26 illus. in color. text |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2020.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2020. |
| Series: | Management for Professionals,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43502-8 |
| Format: | Electronic Book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the Nature of Purchasing
- Elements of purchasing in nature
- Upskilling for “Purchasing 4.0” – How European Automotive OEMs master the future of purchasing with the right skill set
- 0 shades of grey – externalization of the quality business philosophy to reach zero defects
- The value of contracts in a long-term context – An example based on the Lateran Treaty and the concordat of 1984
- Creativity in purchasing – what a team can do
- “En garde!” – What business negotiators could learn from an épée fencing champion
- The “True” Cost of Mitigating Commodity Price Volatility: Insights from Total Cost of Ownership and Real Options Approach
- Auctions as the most efficient form of negotiations
- Purchasing’s Role as an Influencer of Business Outcomes
- Towards efficient financial supply chains: How to leverage inter-organizational working capital by digitalizing the financial flows
- The importance ofbeing confident: evidence from a supply chain experiment
- Prospects of purchasing – an evaluation model for data mining approaches for preventive quality assurance
- Ethical purchasing – Knowledge- and person-related inhibitors to consumption of fair fashion
- Reframing Buyer-Supplier Relationships: Deep, Sticky, Transient and Gracious
- Innovation scouting: a new challenge for the purchasing function.