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  title info:
    title: From Purchasing to Supply Management
    sub title: A Study of the Benefits and Critical Factors of Evolution to Best Practice
  name:
    name part: Stolle, Michael A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 208 p. online resource.
  abstract: For more than 20 years, researchers and practitioners claimed a transition from traditional purchasing to strategic supply management. However, very few companies actually have been able to make this transition happen. Given the fact that most of the actual practices applied by world-class companies are well known, the question remains why so many companies failed along the way. What does it take to overcome the barriers of purchasing evolution - and what are the benefits? Based on more than 200 interviews with Chief Purchasing Officers around the world and statistical analyses, Michael Stolle presents a new perspective on the challenges of organizational change. The empirical results reveal a complex hierarchy of organizational factors that have to be developed to increase purchasing performance. "Visible" purchasing best practices are only the tip of the iceberg and are based on a profound shift of mindsets of the entire organization. The insights offered by this book will help to understand the mechanics and success criteria of purchasing evolution to supply management.
  table of contents: A brief overview of the status quo in PSM evolution research -- Organization theories perspectives on PSM evolution -- A new conceptual model of drivers of PSM evolution -- An empirical analysis of drivers of PSM evolution -- Summary and conclusions.
  note: by Michael A. Stolle.
  subject:
    topic: Business
  subject:
    topic: Production management
  subject:
    topic: Industrial procurement
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management
  subject:
    topic: Procurement
  subject:
    topic: Operations Management
  classification: HD39.5
  classification: 658.72
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783834996954
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-9695-4
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