Sourcing Strategy

The goal of this modern interdisciplinary and holistic text is not just to document sourcing strategy, but to provide the tools to determine it. Rather than merely describing common sourcing processes, it takes a normative approach to sourcing strategy. The book fills a gap in the literature between purchasing management and managerial economics. It adopts an accessible treatment that allows even non-technical readers to achieve an in-depth understanding without sacrificing on advanced insights from formal analyses.

Fills gaps in the serious student's library between the descriptive and the analytical problem-solving approaches, and between the systemic and the strategic approaches to sourcing. It does this without either sacrificing accessibility or demanding mathematical ability Provides a modern interdisciplinary and holistic view of sourcing strategy

Inhalt
Principles and Policy.- Sourcing Strategy.- Outsourcing.- Architecture and Processes.- Sourcing Goals and Objectives.- The Government Sourcing Environment.- Costs and Performance Risks.- Contracts and Incentives.- Source selection.- Supplier Strategies.- Sourcing Reports and Data.- Design.- Foundations of sourcing analysis.- Sourcing Design Elements.- Risks and Rewards of Multiple Sourcing.- Capacity Constraints and Pricing.- Syndicates, Risk and Demand Uncertainty.- Risks and Resource Sharing.- Selection and Incentives for Innovation: LIC.- Selection and Incentives for Innovation: Yardstick Contracts.