The SAGE Handbook of Strategic Supply Management,Used

Review'Strategic supply management has vastly increased the productivity of businesses world wide. But crafting an effective supply management system requires a strategic mindset and considerable implementation skills. This excellent handbook is key to those who want to know how to convert this important movement form a concept into a reality'Regina Herzlinger, Ph.D.Nancy R. McPhersonProfessor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School'The field of public procurement is professionalizing internationally and becoming more strategic in its focus. This text contains cutting edge research from leading academics and practitioners from public and private sector and represents a great leap forward in our understanding of the complexities of strategic supply management' Rick Grimm, CPPO, CPPB, CEONational Institute for Governmental PurchasingProduct DescriptionThis Handbook is the first substantive, multidisciplinary academic work to make coherent analysis of supply systems from the perspective of purchasing and supply, operations management, logistics, supply chain management, service management, industrial or relationship marketing, and interorganization networks. Selected by a team of leading international scholars, chapters examine key issues in the context of globalization and the move towards cooperative interorganization network working. Expert contributors examine supply at different systems levels and differentiate between supply policy, strategy, management and operations.About the AuthorChristine Harland is Professor of Supply Strategy, School of Management, University of Bath, UK. She directs the Collaborative for Research in Strategic Purchasing and Supply (CRiSPS) and is the cofounder of the International Research Study of Public Procurement (IRSPP). She has coauthored worldleading texts and case books in operations management and public procurement. She was President of the UK Health Care Supply Association from 20042011. Her current research is on evidencing and improving value in healthcare supply chains, and using public procurement to deliver broader policy and strategy objectives.Guido Nassimbeni is Professor of Economics and Business Strategy at the University of Udine, Italy, where he is Dean of the Management Engineering Faculty. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Operations Management, Operations Management Research and Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management. His research interests are centred in the fields of purchasing and supply strategy, buyersupplier interactions and relationships, internationalization of manufacturing and supply activities. On these topics he has published books and many articles in a number of leading journals.Eugene Schneller is Professor of Supply Chain Management and Deans Council of 100 Distinguished Scholar, Department of Supply Chain Management, W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He codirects the Health Sector Supply Chain Research Consortium. His book, Strategic Management of the Health Care Supply Chain, provides an assessment of the complex relationships linking hospitals, suppliers, distributors and clinicians. His current research has a focus on the transfer of supply chain progressive practices from a variety of sectors into health care.