Best Practice Procurement: Public and Private Sector Perspectives

Best practice procurement is a key contributor to any organization’s strategic goals, but requirements and experience differ between sectors: this book provides a range of perspectives on subjects central to improving purchasing performance across public and private, manufacturing and service sectors. Consisting of five Parts: ¢ Supply chain management; ¢ Outsourcing and partnership; ¢ Organization and management; ¢ Electronic commerce; and ¢ Performance evaluation, this book comprises a range of cutting-edge, refereed contributions from the 1999 International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association meeting. The authors combine both leading academics and key professionals from organizations leading the way in challenging current approaches to procurement practice. The bringing together of the worlds of research and business provides the opportunity to present evidence grounded in valid theory and methodology in order to develop better practice as transferable strategies and techniques, rather than one-off, quick fix ’solutions’. Best Practice Procurement will appeal to anyone working or studying in a procurement-related function to whom a deeper understanding of how to improve procurement’s contribution to the achievement of organizations’ strategic goals is important.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Introduction. Part One Supply Chain Management: Introduction; Co-evolutionary purchasing - several steps beyond supply chain management? - Laura Forker and Peter Stannack; Power, cost and value appropriation in the publishing supply and value chain - Glyn Watson, Andrew Cox and Eleftheria Noula; The role of main contractors in developing customer focus up and down construction's supply chain - Mohammed Saad and Martyn Jones; Environmental purchasing - tools of engagement - J Gordon Murray and Valerie E Cupples; A comprehensive conceptual model for managing environmental impacts, costs and risks in supply chains - Richard Lamming, Paul Cousins, Frances Bowen and Adam Faruk. Part Two Outsourcing and Partnership: Introduction; Outsourcing - a national and sector level perspective on policy and practice - Louise Knight and Christine Harland; A framework for classification of services to gain strategic purchasing insights - Johanna Rantala (née Stenberg) and Veli-Matti Virolainen; Supplier classification as an enabler for a differentiated purchasing strategy - Johan Lilliecreutz and Lars Ydreskog; Beyond the 'core versus non-core' logic - the need for a contingency model for effective outsourcing in the public and private sectors - Andrew Cox, Chris Lonsdale and Glyn Watson; The role of power in partnership relationships - an empirical investigation of the current body of knowledge - Arjan van Weele and Frank Rozemeijer. Part Three Organization and Management: Introduction; From ideology to action - options, issues, roadblocks and realities of driving change in purchasing and supply - Jon Hughes; Getting to the fundamentals in procurement training - Howard McCulloch; A cross-sector comparison of purchasing team use - P Fraser Johnson, Michiel R Leenders, Robert D Klassen and Harold E Fearon; A quart from a pint pot? - developing the effective use of purchasing consortia - John Ritchie and Tom Chadwick. Part Four Electronic Commerce: Introduction; The impact of electronic commerce on purchasing in the supply chain - John Fraser, Nuran Fraser and Frank McDonald; The strategic contribution of e-commerce to MRO procurement - Simon R Croom; Supporting decentralized supplier management by publishing tenders on the Internet - W Brenner and G Wilking; Making use of Internet technology to achieve lean management in the West Midlands automotive supply chain - D M Thompson, G R Homer, P Costello and S Garner; Purchasing consortia and Internet technology - Daniel Corsten and Michael Zagler. Part Five Performance Evaluation: Introduction; Procurement evaluation within the DVLA - Ann Esain, David Griffiths and Peter Hines; Purchasing performance in the UK's Higher Education sector - functional measures to help in strategic development for the 21st century - Florence Gregg; Benchmarking for strategic procurement - practices of Polish companies in an international context - Danuta Kisperska-Moron; Textbook methods for auditing purchasing and supply management - do they work in practice? - Hannu Vanharanta; Process management and performance measurement in the supply chain - a food distribution case - Donna Samuel and Peter Hines; Index.

About the Author :
Andrew Erridge is Professor of Public Policy and Management at the University of Ulster, where he runs courses in strategic procurement management and carries out research mainly on public procurement. His publications include books on purchasing competences and managing purchasing. He is a committee member and former chair of IPSERA. Ruth Fee is a Lecturer in Government in the School of Public Policy, Economics and Law at the University of Ulster. Her teaching and research interests are in public procurement law and policy, and European law and policy. John McIlroy has a Postgraduate Diploma in Purchasing and Supply Management from the University of Ulster. He has worked as a researcher in public procurement at the University of Ulster and has published articles on supply chain strategy, competitive tendering and electronic procurement. He is now working for an Internet company providing information and electronic commerce services to local government.