Book Description

This text recognizes the major supply challenges facing all organizations and their purchasing and supply management implications. It also gives solid grounding in the basic tools and techniques along with chances to test comprehension through carefully crafted questions and cases. This 12th edition features: a new chapter on technology and e-commerce that looks at the key issues in applying technology to supply management and discusses options and approaches to e-procurement, catalogue management, auctions and e-marketplaces; 29 new cases (and teaching notes), including four cases in the e-commerce chapter; and real world examples which illustrate supply management practice, including job descriptions from Deere & Company.