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Sourcing Strategy

Principles, Policy and Designs

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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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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Principles and Policy

    1. Sourcing Strategy

      Pages 5-12
    2. Outsourcing

      Pages 13-30
    3. Source selection

      Pages 111-137
    4. Supplier Strategies

      Pages 139-154
  3. Back Matter

    Pages 287-319

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.

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, 320

  • Topics: Procurement, Management, Business and Management, general

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Buying options

eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

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