Managing Buyer-Supplier Relations: The Winning Edge Through Specification Management

by Rajesh Nellore

Overview

Managing suppliers is a complex process that is often underestimated. This book presents research carried out by a practising manager in the automotive industry, coupled with over six hundred interviews with representatives from the automotive, aircraft and white goods industries, in order to describe the tools and techniques needed to better manag

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134526642
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/08/2001
Series:	Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Rajesh Nellore

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. A Theoretical Perspective on Specifications 2. Specifications - Do We Really Understand Them? 3. Visionary Driven Outsourced Development 4. Redefining the Role of Product Specifications 5. Mapping the Flow of Specifications 6. Strategic Outsourcing Through Specifications 7. Portfolio approaches to Procurement - Analysing the Missing Link to Specifications - A Case Example of Toyota 8. Contracts to Help Validate Specifications 9. Digital Procurement

Editorial Reviews

'Detailed (academic) study for a specialist market. Based particularly on automobile industry developments. A more important subject than generally recognised.' - Long Range Planning

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