Purchase Order Management Best Practices: Process, Technology,...

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 219 pages
• Published by: J. Ross Publishing November 30, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1932159630
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1932159639
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 1 pounds

Product Review
the definitive reference on purchase order management and a guide to new procurement management practices. This is a must read! -- -- Michael E. McGrath, CEO and President, i2 Technologies, Inc

Product Description
In today's competitive business climate, companies with effective procurement strategies are beginning to separate themselves from the competition. Successful purchase order management (POM) is now a critical core competency and organizations in all industries have started investigating tools and techniques to help them succeed.

Purchase Order Management Best Practices brings together the field's latest advances and gives business professionals a comprehensive framework for lowering costs, improving efficiency, eliminating non-value added activities, and optimizing the transformation program for the POM process. It offers practical, proven tactics and detailed guidance into every aspect of POM process redesign: mapping the existing process, intelligently leveraging new technologies, building a strategy for strengthening the relationship with suppliers, identifying comprehensive related metrics, and industry success stories and lessons learned.

Although POM process transformation is a hot topic, there is not a single book that focuses on the recipe of success for a POM transformation program. This text fills the gap by providing a breakthrough start-to-finish roadmap for organizations to implement the POM transformation program successfully.

Reader Reviews
I recently worked with a client who had purchase order management problems. Implementation of the new purchase order management procedures were extremely difficult. The third part of the book on Change Management (written by Beitler, the change management expert) was very helpful. I like how these three experts, Sabri (process), Gupta (technology) , and Beitler (change management), collaborated to produce such a valuable reference guide for purchase order management. They talk about state-of-the-art techniques, being used at real-world companies, in an easy-to-read style.