 |  World Class Supply Management: The Key to Supply Chain Management, 7/e David N. Burt,
University of San Diego
Donald W. Dobler,
Colorado State University
Stephen L. Starling,
University of San Diego
What's New- All-new Sections I and X focus on supply chain theory. Students come to understand the role of purchasing and supply managers in terms of the supply chain, the operative strategy in this business function today.
- New coverage of the Internet’s impact on supply management (see, for example, Chapters 9, on e-procurement, and 16, on global supply management). Students learn about virtual management of inventory and virtual communication with suppliers using up-to-the-minute techniques and terminology.
- Chapter 1 explains the authors’ unique new approach to purchasing and supply management. Students receive a practical theoretical framework at the outset of the course that reflects the latest thinking and practice in the field.
- Chapters 2 through 4 explain the evolution of the corporate functions of supply and purchasing management in terms of the supply chain. Students learn the historical and pragmatic reasons why firms today operate in terms of a chain of supply and purchasing events and decisions.
- Thoroughly updated presentation of topics: outmoded frames of reference have been discarded to present purchasing and supply management in a contemporary context. For instance, the last edition’s coverage of computer-based systems and EDI (6e, chapter 5) has been supplanted by wider considerations of e-procurement (7e, chapter 9). In Chapter 6, discussions of companies’ organization in the prior edition is now augmented by coverage of cross-functional teams in supply and purchasing decisions. Students benefit from learning how these business functions operate in twenty-first century settings.
- Increased global focus: the Seventh Edition spends more time on the increasingly complex challenges facing the transnational firm’s purchasing and supply functions: a brand-new Chapter 16, on Global Supply Management, broadens the book’s coverage of international issues and shows students that these business functions in particular are profoundly affected by the demands of doing business globally.
- New Foreword by Richard L. Pinkerton, a leading authority in the field, provides students with the practitioner’s viewpoint in a managerial role they may choose to pursue in their future careers.
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2003 McGraw-Hill Higher Education