Measuring Supply Management’s Budget Effects Introduction of Return on Spend as an Indicator of Supply Management’s Financial Effectiveness /

• Main Author: Quitt, Anna (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Gabler, 2010.
• Subjects: Business.; Leadership.; Production management.; Business and Management.; Business Strategy/Leadership.; Operations Management.

Despite its strategic focus, supply management has not yet gained due recognition for its value contribution since it can still not reliably show its effects on the corporate bottom line. Based on practice-oriented and practice-relevant research methods, Anna Quitt, therefore, designs an integrated...

Table of Contents:

• Problem Set and Course of Investigation
• Supply Management’s Financial Effectiveness – ‘The Story Behind it’
• Measurement of Supply Management’s Bottom Line Impact: Status Quo and Future Requirements
• Measurement Process Design: Measuring Supply Management’s Budget Effects – A Qualitative Approach
• Process Implementation Design: Implementing Supply Management’s Return on Spend
• All-Encompassing Final Statements.