Sourcing Strategy is about sourcing as a long term strategic activity. Myopic purchasing management stops short with describing functional procedures and procedural innovations such as online order processing. The goal of this book is not merely to document sourcing strategy, but to provide the...

In the course of third-party logistics (3PL), manufacturing and trading firms outsource complex, customized services and service bundles based on multi-year contracts. These contracts need to be designed according to relationship characteristics and be adjusted to changes that occur during the...