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... concept to customer delivery times, and strengthening the integration of materials management into the total operations of an organization A Purchasing Managers Guide to Strategic Proactive Procurement ... permission of AMACOM, a division of American Management Association, 16 01 Broadway, new York, NY 10 019 Printing number 10 9/7/2006 9:23 AM To Lamar Lee, Jr., Gayto...

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... five approaches to describing what to purchase Approach Advantages Disadvantages Brand or trade name Easily described Easily purchased Readily available Facilitate obtaining special workmanship ... items that are not generally commercially available There are several advantages and disadvantages in using design specifications Advantages * The purchasing organization avoids having to p...

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... new facilities Purchasing Plant Facilities Not long ago expanding demand and a low cost of capital (by today's standards) allowed many firms to acquire new facilities with little regard to minimizing ... item and is a popular method of acquiring industrial equipment There are many arguments in favor of and also against leasing In the final analysis, the acquiring firm must look at t...

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... right time at which to make purchases and the right quantity to buy has a major impact on an organization's productivity and profits Many purchasing managers view inadequate lead time as their ... self-sufficiency Today, this 9/7/2006 9 :49 AM 9/7/2006 9 :49 AM Page 99 Exhibit 7-1 Make-or-buy cost data: An example Make Material (incl freight) (variable) Direct labor (variable) Materia...

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... which adds labor, material, and overhead to arrive at total cost, then applies a profit figure to arrive at a proposal price This price can be adjusted according to the other factors we will call ... Bradstreet Analytical Services, Murray Hill, N.J.; Robert Morris Associates, Philadelphia, Pa and database services such as Dialog in Palo Alto, Calif Richard G Newman, "Insuring Qualit...

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... marketplace? This is the area that the Baldrige Award addresses The Malcolm Baldrige Annual National Quality Award Public law 100-107 established the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in ... illustrates that temperature changes, etc can achange a dimension of tungsten variables Kaoru Ishikawa, a distinguished Japanese statistical engineer.12 These diagrams are often called Ishikawa...

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... time the purchasing department is just starting to evolve from reactive to proactive status Any major organizational change is traumatic to individuals accustomed to either status quo or ''having ... prepare the agenda and data for the actual negotiation team The mandate team must have the authority and responsibility, which actually means a charter and resources from senior man...

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... Competitive Advantage," International Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management (Fall 1993), pp 13-20 Also see T Scott Graham, Patricia J Daugherty and William N Dudley, "The Long-Term Strategic ... tactical and operational plans When we total all the resources needed to achieve all types of purchasing plans, we have the internal purchasing department operating budget and plan...

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... System addresses fifteen separate performance criteria and assigns each a weight factor based on its relative importance Ratings, done on a regular basis by a number of Sea Ray departments and functions, ... States laws, your organization policies and these Ethical Standards and Guidelines 9/ 7/2006 10:20 AM Page 267 THE HISTORY OF SEA RAY Founded in 195 9, Sea Ray Boats, Inc has becom...

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... for standard tasks within the firm Standard time data are arranged in a systematic order and are used over and over An accurate bottom-up estimate requires considerable data: Product specifications ... positional, which means variations within a single unit such as porosity in a metal casting, across a single unit with many parts, by location, from machine to machine, operator to...

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