A Purchasing Manager's Guide to Strategic Proactive Procurement Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	Benefits of the Integrated Procurement System	1
2	Determining What to Purchase: The Design Process	23
3	Developing the Right Purchase Description to Save You Time and Money	37
4	Procuring Services	49
5	How To Stretch Your Equipment and Building Dollar	59
6	Two Key Interfaces: Production Planning and Inventory Control	72
7	To Make or to Buy: That Is the Question	96
8	How to Select the Right Supplier	106
9	Price Analysis	132
10	Cost Analysis	146
11	Value Analysis and Value Engineering	156
12	Quality Assurance Overview	169
13	Team Building	188
14	The Winning Way of Negotiating	199
15	Strategic Supply Management	218
16	Planning for Proactive Procurement	229
	Appendix A: Make-or-Buy Policy and Procedure	241
	Appendix B: Supplier Welcome Booklet	248
	Appendix C: The Learning Curve	269
	Appendix D: Alternative Methods of Contract Pricing	274
	Appendix E: Other Approaches to Cost Estimating	282
	Appendix F: Special Secondary Source Techniques for Estimating Cost Components	287
	Appendix G: Managing Price Increases	290
	Appendix H: Statistical Process Control	292
	Appendix I: Design of Experiments	297
	Appendix J: Supplier Quality Survey Example	300
	Appendix K: Sample Audit-Situational Analysis Questionnaire	307
	Index	313