Procurement


Procurement Principles & Management
The CPO: Transforming Procurement in the Real World
Profit From The Source: Transforming Your Business by Putting Suppliers at the Core
Strategic Sourcing and Category Management: Lessons Learned at IKEA
Sustainable Procurement: A Practical Guide to Corporate Social Responsibility in the Supply Chain
Spend Analysis: The Window into Strategic Sourcing
The Procurement and Supply Manager's Desk Reference
Procurement and Supply Chain Management
101 Models of Procurement and Supply Chain Management
Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
The Purchasing Chessboard: 64 Methods to Reduce Costs and Increase Value with Suppliers
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
Project Procurement Management: A Guide to Structured Procurements
Ann Cleeves Reading Order and Checklist: The guide to the Vera Stanhope series, Shetland novels, Two Rivers series, Inspector Ramsay books, Palmer Jones series, and standalone novels
Delivering Customer Value through Procurement and Strategic Sourcing: A Professional Guide to Creating A Sustainable Supply Network (FT Press Operations Management)
Tony Osborg
“ Many Nigerians get excited when the government execute such projects as newly constructed schools, roads, health centers and other government funded projects which they tag as developmental projects. They get excited over what they perceive as a performing government carrying out its corporate responsibilities. But they are ignorant of the fact that public funds cannot disappear in a vacuum, it has to be accounted for; therefore contracts must be awarded to make the stealing legal and official. ...more ”
― Tony Osborg, Can Nigeria Bake Her Own Bread?

“ Humanitarian procurement for emergency response is spontaneous and often unplanned, because although we may plan for a catastrophe the when it may happen maybe a mystery! To address this, innovative solutions must include putting in place long term agreements (framework agreements), contracts for vendor consigned stocks, pre-positioning of stocks which would predictably be used for a broad range of responses and a cash based intervention option to allow people affected to have their dignity of c ...more ”
― Victor Manan Nyambala

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