Part 1 Procurement Objectives and Development


1 Procurement scope and development


2 Strategic procurement and supply chain management


3 Public sector procurement


Part 2 Key Procurement Issues


4 Outsourcing


5 Quality management


6 I nventory management


7 L ead time and time compression


8 S ourcing strategies and relationships


9 Price and total cost of ownership (TCO)


10 Negotiations


Part 3 Applications


11 Project procurement


12 Procurement of commodities


13 I nternational and global sourcing


14 Capital procurement


15 Retail procurement and efficient consumer response (ECR)


16 Services procurement


17 Corporate social responsibility


Part 4 E-Procurement Systems and Contract Management


18 E-procurement systems


19 Contract management and performance measurement

Specifically readers will note the following new elements:


¦ a new, thorough consideration of contract law;


¦ improvements in negotiation;


¦ additional material exploring offshoring/onshoring;


¦ a more thorough treatment of performance measurement;


¦ the inclusion of a section on risk;


¦ considerable expansion of MRP, Lean and Agile theories;


¦ more detailed coverage of ABC analysis, TCO, Kraljic, supplier


preferencing, Bensaou, CSR-Triple Bottom Line concept;


¦ additional examples of services/tangibles procurement;


¦ culture has been given much more focus;


¦ supplier appraisal and supplier relationship management (SRM) have


been expanded considerably."