Date of publication:
18th September 2008
255 pages
24 images
ISBN: 9783593387116
Price: Euro 39,90
SFR 67,00

The purchase of products and services makes up a huge part of a company’s overall expenditure. All the more wonder that it’s almost never a major focus in the boardrooms of most companies. Purchasing must assume the role of executive priority! Its strategic importance continues to be underestimated although it’s not only crucial for reducing costs, it remains one of the most important elements in the value creation chain. Christian A. Rast will demonstrate the strategic significance of purchasing while advocating the promotion of purchasing to a boardroom issue.

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Every executive board would like to have the best in their field. Unfortunately, this undertaking has been failing extensively and categorically for years.
Every year billions are spent on executive and personnel development, talent management, training and qualification, with modest results. No manager can move mountains like this, not to mention the range of challenges which are mounting up in this time of exogenous shocks, threatened global supply networks, and dwindling raw material sources. The ‘input’ principle is to blame: Too much emphasis is placed on what is put in. The ‘best in class’ pay attention to what comes out.
They work according to the principle of ‘return’: Training should no longer just make it possible for managers and employees to move mountains. The mountains need to be moved in the training itself. This is self-financing and profit-generating because it creates ‘return projects’ which are designed to increase turnover, reduce costs, and/or improve efficiency. That’s how mountains are moved! With this new understanding of management development and the unleashed power of developing personalities: in short, with future competence.

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Date of publication:
14th September 2009
232 pages, hardback
ISBN 978-3-86880-029-6
Price:
€ 49.90 (D), € 51.30 (A), sFr. 81.00 (CH)
mi-Wirtschaftsbuch, Munich 2009

There is a lack of appropriately qualified individuals in procurement – only a small number of procurement and logistics departments are sufficiently prepared for the challenges of the coming years. Not only do budgets lack money for further training, but there is also a lack of appropriate academic courses and sustainable concepts. Many companies are therefore taking the strategic training of their SC managers into their own hands.
The new book, written by Nicole Gaiziunas, “Development in Supply Chain Management: Turning Buyers in Supply Chain Managers” uses successful international projects and innovative, methodical approaches to highlight the best training strategies for preparing employees in Sup?????????ply Chain Management for current and future challenges. The reference projects cited are the top 10 of the applications submitted for the first “Develop Leaders! Talents in Supply Chain Management” Award.
BrainNet, within the framework of its close co-operation with the European Business School(EBS) and the Supply Chain Management Institute (SMI), supports this topic as a sponsor.

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