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" Implementing best purchasing and supply management practices : "
Nancy Y. Moore [and others].
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BL
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1032662
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b787032
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Implementing best purchasing and supply management practices : : lessons from innovative commercial firms /\ Nancy Y. Moore [and others].
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| Publication Statement
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Santa Monica, CA :: Rand,, 2002.
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Documented briefing ;; DB-334-AF
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xxvii, 201 pages :: illustrations ;; 28 cm.
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0833030078
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: 9780833030078
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"Prepared for the United States Air Force."
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"Project Air Force."
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-201).
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| Contents
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Introduction -- A strategic, goal-oriented approach to purchasing and supply management -- Formal implementation programs to support -- Findings relevent to the Air Force -- Supply management at John Deere -- Skills that effective purchasing and supply management personnel need -- Bristol-Myers Squibb purchasing initiatives -- General background on developing and using information about best commercial practices -- Examples of strategic supply-base reduction -- Interview questions.
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Because the U.S. Air Force spends over one-third of its budget on nonweapons purchased goods and services, such purchases are a prime target area in which to seek performance improvements and cost savings. Prompted by a need for improved performance from its supply base, the Air Force has become increasingly aware of the advantages of using market research, contract consolidation, supply base rationalization, and other leading purchasing and supply management (PSM) practices in its dealings with suppliers. To aid the Air Force in its PSM efforts, RAND examined how innovative commercial firms implement such practices in their purchases of goods and services. After a review of the academic and trade literature, the study team conducted a series of elite interviews using a structured questionnaire to gather primary data from "best in class" commercial firms. The key findings are that (1) innovative commercial firms are moving to a strategic, goal-oriented approach to PSM, (2) implementing new PSM practices can take a number of years and often requires significant, permanent change throughout the organization, and (3) the Air Force needs strategies to sustain continuity of support for serious PSM change from one leadership team to the next.
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Business logistics-- United States.
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Industrial procurement-- United States.
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Air Force equipment.
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Air Force.
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Business logistics.
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Business.
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Industrial procurement.
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Inventory.
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Logistics management.
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Logistics.
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Procurement.
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United States.
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358.4/162/0973
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HD39.5.I47 2002
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PR2894.W7
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Moore, Nancy Y.,1947-
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United States., Air Force.
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Project Air Force (U.S.)
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Rand Corporation.
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