Offering a global perspective, this down to earth, yet advanced and technically detailed book addresses a multitude of management, purchasing, and negotiation principles and techniques based on an understanding of the basic job of purchasing and supply management. This evolutionary work aims to re-engineer and shape a progressive vision of the purchasing and supply management concepts, enabling readers to implement buying practices that effectively integrate outside suppliers with their company's needs.

Purchasing and Supply Management: Creating the Vision is written for the professional by a team of practitioners whose world-wide acumen and writings span a total of 60 years experience that includes commercial and military buying. The book's unique outlook will appeal to an extended audience. In particular, professional managers and buyers, professional practitioners and students studying purchasing will have a distinct need for this book.