From Purchasing to Supply Management A Study of the Benefits and Critical Factors of Evolution to Best Practice /

• Main Author: Stolle, Michael A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Gabler, 2008.
• Subjects: Business.; Production management.; Industrial procurement.; Business and Management.; Procurement.; Operations Management.

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...

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.