Die Konzentration am Lieferantenmarkt, steigende Energiepreise und der Ressourcenhunger von schnell wachsenden Volkswirtschaften wie China machen es immer schwieriger, im Einkauf Preissenkungen durchzusetzen. Um Unternehmen dabei zu unterstützen, die neuen Herausforderungen im Einkauf zu meistern und signifikante Wertbeiträge zu erzielen, haben die Autoren dieses Buchs das Einkaufsschachbrett entwickelt. Jeder Konstellation aus Nachfragemacht und Angebotsmacht weist es eine angemessene Einkaufsstrategie zu.
Christian Schuh is a trained engineer with degrees in aeromechanics and artificial intelligence (doctorate) from TU Graz. After three years at Unilever, he joined A.T. Kearney in 1995. His career in consulting has taken him to exciting places like NASA's Johnson Space Center and mega-factories in China with more than 300,000 workers. He spent many years advising car makers in Germany, France, the UK, Italy, Brazil and the US and is more recently focusing on high tech firms in the US and in Taiwan.
He is best known for his books The Purchasing Chessboard and The CPO and is currently launching two new books, one on Supplier Relationship management with Michael Strohmer, Stephen Easton Mike Hales and Alenka Triplat and another one on Corporate Plasticity with Laurent Chevreux, Wim Plaizier, Wayne Brown and Alenka Triplat.
He lives in the historic center of Vienna, Austria.