This is the complete executive's guide to driving sustainable competitive advantage and mitigating risk in today's complex supply networks. Two of the field's leading consultants show senior managers how to apply advanced strategic sourcing to significantly improve your supply chain's efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability. Drawing on their cutting-edge research, Yusen Xia and Walter L. Wallace help you go beyond mere cost-cutting and contract management to redesign and orchestrate your entire multi-tier supply chain. Wallace and Xia present powerful case studies and lessons from UPS, Coca-Cola, Home Depot, Shaw Industries, and other pioneers. You'll learn how to: Bring together the multiple business disciplines whose work impacts sourcing and procurement Use strategic sourcing techniques to create a more sustainable supply chain Integrate the use of emission permits into your strategic sourcing programs Manage procurement when the cost of raw materials fluctuates widely Effectively utilize financial hedging in strategic sourcing Deepen your understanding of contemporary buyer-supplier relationships Implement strategic lead-time management Increase visibility as a way to become more demand-driven Take advantage of recent advances in e-sourcing and e-procurement More effectively manage risk and uncertainty in your supply network Make better outsourcing/insourcing decisions in global supply chains If you're a senior manager who wants to transform sourcing and procurement into a key competitive differentiator, this book will help you deliver the goods.

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Intended for college and university level courses addressing purchasing, materials management, supply chain management, sourcing management, and similar material, this text presents a managerial perspective on the core tasks and challenges required to manage the purchasing function within the contex

In an effort to generate funds for force modernization, the Air Force is looking toward the private sector to gain efficiencies and save money. To decide whether it can reduce costs by outsourcing an activity, the Air Force develops a bid for comparison to those of potential private- sector providers. Current policy for estimating the overhead component of its bid is to multiply the direct labor costs of the activity by 12 percent (.12). This policy is controversial because there is doubt as to its accuracy and because it has altered the outcome of a significant number of competitions. This research analyzed overhead rate behavior on a U.S. Air Force base (i.e., Travis AFB) to: (1) determine the accuracy of the 12 percent rule, (2) develop an automated procedure to estimate overhead savings that will result from outsourcing a commercial activity, and (3) identify policies that would increase overhead savings if a commercial activity is outsourced. A brief summary of some of the most significant findings and policy implications is below.