Purchasing and Supply Management / Edition 15

by Anna Flynn, P. Fraser Johnson

Overview

The Fifteenth Edition of Purchasing and Supply Management provides a comprehensive introduction to the purchasing and supply chain management field, supported by over 45 case studies. Cases cover purchasing and supply chain issues in a variety of settings, from process industries to high tech manufacturing and services as well as public institutions. The text focuses on decision making throughout the supply chain. Based on the conviction that supply managers, in concert with suppliers and distributors, have to contribute to organizational goals and strategies, this edition continues to focus on how to make that mission a reality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780078024092
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Publication date:	10/10/2014
Edition description:	List
Pages:	560
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

P. Fraser Johnson is the Leenders Supply Chain Management Association Chair at the Ivey Business School, Western University. Professor Johnson is director of the Ivey Purchasing Managers Index, the most widely watched and utilized indicator of future economic activity in Canada. He was faculty director of the Ivey MBA program from 2009 to 2014.

Dr. Johnson received his PhD in Operations Management from Ivey in 1995, and following graduation, joined the Faculty of Commerce & Business Administration at the University of British Columbia. He returned to Ivey as a faculty member in 1998, where he currently teaches courses in supply chain management and operations. Prior to joining Ivey, Professor Johnson worked in the automotive parts industry where he held a number of senior management positions in finance and operations. His experience includes managing automotive parts facilities in both Canada and the United States, and overseeing a joint venture partnership in Mexico.

Professor Johnson is an active researcher in the area of supply chain management and he has authored articles that have been published in a wide variety of journals and magazines. Fraser has also authored a number of teaching cases. He is an associate editor for The Journal of Supply Chain Management and sits on the editorial review board for the Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management. Professor Johnson has worked with a number of private- and public-sector organizations in both consulting and corporate education assignments in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

Table of Contents

1. Purchasing and Supply Management
Case 1-1 Qmont Mining
Case 1-2 Erica Carson
Case 1-3 Southeastern University

2. Supply Strategy
Case 2-1 Spartan Heat Exchangers Inc.
Case 2-2 Sabor Inc.
Case 2-3 Ford Motor Company: Aligned Business Framework

3. Supply Organization
Case 3-1 Iowa Elevators
Case 3-2 Roger Haskett

4. Supply Processes and Technology
Case 4-1 Bright Technology International
Case 4-2 Hemingway College
Case 4-3 Portland Bus Company

5. Make or Buy, Insourcing and Outsourcing
Case 5-1 B&L Inc.
Case 5-2 Rondot Automotive
Case 5-3 Alicia Wong

6. Need Identification and Specification
Case 6-1 Moren Corporation (A)
Case 6-2 Moren Corporation (B)
Case 6-3 Carson Manor

7. Quality
Case 7–1 The Power Line Poles
Case 7–2 Air Quality Systems Inc.

8. Quantity and Inventory
Case 8-1 Sedgman Steel
Case 8-2 Throsel-Teskey Drilling

9. Delivery
Case 9-1 Penner Medical Products
Case 9-2 Andrew Morton

10. Price
Case 10–1 Cottrill Inc.
Case 10–2 Coral Drugs
Case 10–3 Price Forecasting Exercise

11. Cost Management
Case 11–1 Deere Cost Management
Case 11–2 McMichael Inc.
Case 11-3 City of Granston

12. Supplier Selection
Case 12-1 Loren Inc.
Case 12-2 Russel Wisselink
Case 12-3 Kettering Industries Inc

13. Supplier Evaluation and Supplier Relations
Case 13-1 APC Europe
Case 13-2 Plastic Cable Clips
Case 13-3 Delphi Corporation

14. Global Supply Management
Case 14–1 Trojan Technologies
Case 14–2 Marc Biron

15. Legal and Ethics
Case 15–1 Rocky Plains Brewing Ltd.
Case 15–2 Sinclair & Winston

16. Other Supply Responsibilities
Case 16-1 Ross Wood
Case 16-2 Raleigh Plastics

17. Supply Function Evaluation and Trends
Case 17-1 Randall Corporation
Case 17-2 Fairview School Board
Case 17-3 Tanton Foods