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Product Identifiers

PublisherRoss Publishing, Incorporated, J.

ISBN-101932159800

ISBN-139781932159806

eBay Product ID (ePID)127363545

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameSupplier Evaluation and Performance Excellence : A Guide to Meaningful Metrics and Successful Results

SubjectPurchasing & Buying, Real Estate, Production & Operations Management

Publication Year2008

TypeTextbook

AuthorSherry Gordon

Subject AreaLaw, Business & Economics

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight17.5 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2007-052783

Dewey Edition22

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal658.72

SynopsisUnderstanding supplier performance is vital to ensuring a well-functioning supply network. This unique how-to book helps readers develop and implement a supplier evaluation process that can result in reduced costs, lower risk, and improved performance of both the user's company and its suppliers., Understanding supplier performance is vital to ensuring a well-functioning supply network. This how-to book will help you develop and implement an evaluation process to help you reduce costs, lower risk, and improve both the performance of your company and your suppliers. This practical text includes examples of best practices that companies are using to evaluate suppliers and illustrates how to get beyond collecting data for the sake of data to achieving real results. It shows how to get at the meaning behind supplier metrics, and choose measurements that are meaningful both in the context of your company's goals and also for the supplier. Supplier Evaluation and Performance Excellence helps you get at the root causes of supplier problems that even suppliers may be unaware of and enable them to make high-impact improvements.Many firms do not know where to begin in the supplier evaluation process, what ways would work best, or even what kind of results they want to get. They know that they should be measuring supplier performance, but may not understand why or what they would gain from it. This book is geared toward managers at two types of companies: those who know that they should be measuring supplier performance but don't know where to start, and companies who want ideas about how to improve or revitalize a current program., Understanding supplier performance is vital to ensuring a well-functioning supply network. This comprehensive volume enables readers to develop and implement an evaluation process to reduce costs, lower risk, and improve both company and supplier performance."Supplier Evaluation" includes examples of best practices that real companies are using to evaluate suppliers and illustrates how to get beyond merely collecting data to achieving real results. It shows how to get to the meaning behind metrics, and choose measurements that are both meaningful both in the context of your company's goals and also for the supplier., Understanding supplier performance is vital to ensuring a well-functioning supply network. This comprehensive volume enables readers to develop and implement an evaluation process to reduce costs, lower risk, and improve both company and supplier performance."Supplier Evaluation" includes examples of best practices that real companies are using to ......

LC Classification NumberHD38.5