Implementing Strategic Sourcing Best Practice

Description

This informative, comprehensive, yet practical guide provides readers with a complete tool-kit of how to approach global sourcing successfully. Based on real world experiences on implementing and sustaining global sourcing the book provides readers with key guidance on:

Key Features

    * Foundations of Strategic Sourcing

    * Management, risk, governance and legal considerations

    * Transition planning and the end-game

    * Future trends, summary and lessons learned

    * Organizational change, innovation and relationship management

    * Successful principles for new business development from a service provider perspective

In addition, it addresses the following areas in a comprehensive, yet easy to use and practical manner:

    * Integrates strategic and operational concepts and practices

    * Covers both clients and providers

    * Supports the practice of global sourcing by leveraging and integrating professional rigor for best practices

    * Provides practical knowledge, techniques, checklists and methodologies that can be used in any environment globally

    * Includes many examples of current and emerging best practices

    * Is broad and comprehensive, yet drills down to specific 'how to' details in all chapters

    * Provides a global view of sourcing

CONTENTS:

PART I: FOUNDATION OF STRATEGIC SOURCING

Part II MANAGEMENT, RISK, GOVERNANCE AND CONTROL

PART III ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE, INNOVATION AND RELATIONSHIP

PART IV - TRANSITION PLANNING AND THE END GAME

PART V SUCCESSFUL PRINCIPLES FOR NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FROM A SERVICE PROVIDER PERSPECTIVE

PART VI FUTURE TRENDS, SUMMARY AND LESSONS LEARNED