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Drawing on international research this text blends established theory and current practice to provide acomprehensive strategic coverage of this wide and constantly developing area. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.

Strategic Supply Management

• Strategic Supply Management


• Contents


• List of figures


• List of tables


• List of boxes


• Preface


• Acknowledgements


• Abbreviations


• Part 1 The fundamentals of supply


• The supply challenge


• Introduction


• Structure of the book


• A note on terminology


• Overview


• Summary


• References


• Endnotes


• The evolution of purchasing and supply management


• Introduction


• The evolution of purchasing


• Drivers of purchasing evolution


• The role of the purchasing function


• Judging purchasing?s contribution to strategy


• Empirical taxonomies of purchasing


• The scope of strategic supply management


• Summary


• Seminar questions


• References


• Endnotes


• The make?buy decision: a theoretical perspective


• Introduction


• The make?buy decision


• The inadequacy of neoclassical economic theory


• The transaction cost approach


• The capability approach


• Resource-based view and the make?buy decision


• Summary


• Seminar questions


• References


• Endnotes


• Chapter 5 Strategic supplier selection


• Chapter 6 Supplier development


• Aim of chapter


• Introduction


• Objectives of supplier development


• Supplier development strategies


• The supplier development process


• Barriers to supplier development


• Summary


• Seminar questions


• References


• Endnotes


• Aim of chapter


• Introduction


• Main stages of supplier selection


• St