The bestselling Purchasing Chessboard® concept, used by hundreds of corporations worldwide to reduce costs and increase value with suppliers, is the topic of this successful professional book now published in its third edition. The 64 squares on the Purchasing Chessboard provide a wealth of...

Introduction – Changes in the world, disruption, agility, new ways -- The future of procurement -- Digital in procurement -- Understanding customers and suppliers as key to unlock value -- Is Disruptive Procurement the new Purchasing Chessboard?- Outlook. .

There’s a new buzz phrase in the air: Supplier Relationship Management (SRM). Corporate executives know it’s necessary, but there’s only one problem. Nobody yet knows how to do it. Or they think it’s all about bashing your vendors over the head until they reduce the price another 4%....

In the novel The CPO: Transforming Procurement in the Real World, we meet Thomas Sutter, a German-American living in Dusseldorf and working as a procurement manager for a major global automobile manufacturer, Autowerke. On a chance encounter while flying to Chicago, he meets the CEO of...

Gerade im Einkauf - der Schnittstelle zum Lieferantenmarkt - ist die weltweite Wirtschaftskrise besonders stark spürbar. In ihrem aktuellen Werk zeigen die Autoren des Erfolgstitels Das Einkaufsschachbrett die Wirkungsweisen von Wirtschaftskrisen auf die Funktion Einkauf auf. Anhand von...

The approach used on a given spend item should largely depend on the balance between supply power and demand power. That is the logic behind the bestselling Purchasing Chessboard®, used by hundreds of corporations worldwide to reduce costs and increase value with suppliers. The 64 squares in...

The 'golden' age of purchasing, in which it was relatively easy to achieve annual cost reductions of between one and three percent, has come to an end. This title provides a suitable purchasing strategy for various constellations of buying power and selling power