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A Purchasing Manager's Guide to Strategic Proactive Procurement
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A great many trade books addressing an organization's relations with its suppliers have appeared
recently. Perhaps the most advanced is the American Keiretsu by Burt and Michael Doyle
(Homewood, Ill.: Business One Irwin, 1993). Whether these books stress early supplier involvement,
partnerships, alliances, strategic procurement, or supply management, all these themes require and
expressly state the need for the procurement process to be a "value adder." The integrated
procurement system (or IPS) as first described in Proactive Procurement adds value to the firm's
operations. The heart of the IPS is the cross-functional procurement team composed of
representatives of Design Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Purchasing, Manufacturing,
Quality Control, key suppliers, Marketing, and, when relevant, Finance. This integrated procurement
system preceded the horizontal corporation by some 10 years, and in some ways, it prepared the way
for this approach to organization and management.
David N. Burt, Ph.D. and Richard L. Pinkerton, Ph.D., C.P.M. - Personal Name
0-8144-0288-7
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Management
English
1996
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