Procurement Management in the Supply Chain Environment: A Practical Guide to Understanding Procurement Management and Enhancing Procurement Effectiveness and Efficiency

The book provides new research on process reengineering. It focuses on how to increase operational efficiency and lower total cost through improving the whole process of procurement and supply chain. This book provides a complete set of system theory and policy approaches for reforming management systems, transforming operational mechanisms, reengineering business processes and controlling supply risks. The purpose is to help purchasing managers at all levels to solve the thorny issues of how to prevent power rent seeking, how to achieve open and fair justice and how to handle the relationship of quality and delivery.The author is Zhenying Jiang, PhD in Management and a professor-level senior economist; he is the director of the China Petrochemical Corporation Safety Supervision Bureau, and Safety Supervision Department director of the China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation.Contents:1. Overview of Procurement Supply Chain Management2. Demand Management3. Supplier Management4. Procurement Management System and Operation Mechanism5. Logistics and Inventory Management6. Information Management7. Establishment and Operation Conditions for the Procurement Supply ChainCase 1: Corporate Centralized Procurement Practices of SINOPECCase 2: SINOPEC Supplier Management PracticesCase 3: SINOPEC Unified Reserve System PracticesCase 4: E-Procurement at SINOPECCase 5: Procurement Supply Chain Practice forSeamless Alloy Pipes in SINOPECCase 6: Construction Practice for the Coal Logistics Bases in SINOPECCase 7: Valve Procurement Supply Chain Management at SINOPEC's Nanjing region