Books as Frameworks: Sourcing & Procurement
Table of Contents
The Art of Creating a Quality RFP (Steven Jeffery et al.)
- Why Don’t We Do Quality RFPs?
- The Value of an RFP Process
- Creating and Maintaining an Effective RFP Team
- The Importance of Gathering RFP Requirements
- Don’t Send Your RFP to Too Many Suppliers
- Principles of an Effective RFI
- Creating and Issuing Your RFP
- In a Hurry? Consider a Lean RFP
- Get Better Results With a Form of Proposal
- The Pre-Proposal Conference
- Evaluating Your RFP Responses
- The Negotiation Phase
- Can You Just Do eSourcing and Skip the Rest of This Book?
The Purchasing Chessboard (Christian Schuh)
- Bestshoring
- Bottleneck management
- Bundling across generations
- Bundling across product lines
- Bundling across sites
- Buying consortia
- Closed-loop spend management
- Collaborative capacity management
- Collaborative cost reduction
- Complexity reduction
- Compliance management
- Composite benchmark
- Contract management
- Core-cost analysis
- Cost-based price modeling
- Cost-data mining
- Cost-regression analysis
- Demand reduction
- Design for manufacture
- Design for sourcing
- Expressive bidding
- Factor cost analysis
- Functionality assessment
- Global sourcing
- Intelligent deal structure
- Invention on-demand
- Leverage innovation network
- Leverage market imbalances
- Linear performance pricing
- Low-cost country sourcing
- Make or buy
- Master data management
- Mega supplier strategy
- Political framework management
- Price benchmark
- Process benchmark
- Procurement outsourcing
- Product benchmark
- Product teardown
- Profit sharing
- Project-based partnership
- Revenue sharing
- Reverse auctions
- RFI/RFP process
- Sourcing community
- Specification assessment
- Spend transparency
- Standardization
- Strategic alliance
- Supplier consolidation
- Supplier development
- Supplier fitness program
- Supplier market intelligence
- Supplier tiering
- Sustainability management
- Total cost of ownership
- Total life-cycle concept
- Unbundling prices
- Value chain reconfiguration
- Value-based sourcing
- Vendor-managed inventory
- Vertical integration
- Virtual inventory management
- Visible process organization