Implementing Strategic Sourcing

This informative, comprehensive, yet practical guide provides readers with a complete tool-kit of how to approach global sourcing successfully.

Based on real world experiences on implementing and sustaining global sourcing the book provides readers with key guidance on:
* Foundations of Strategic Sourcing
* Management, risk, governance and legal considerations
* Organizational change, innovation and relationship management    
* Transition planning and the end-game     
* Successful principles for new business development from a service provider perspective
* Future trends, summary and lessons learned

Ultimately this guide will take readers from 'principles' to 'how to's' including:

* How to develop, implement, manage and govern an effective global sourcing strategy and plan
* How to put in place policies and processes that can be monitored to provide a balanced approach to sourcing 
* How to build a strategic top-down framework coupled with an operational roadmap
* How to incorporate bottom-up implementation principles and practices that work
* How to ensure a coordinated, cost-effective and value-delivery plan and operating environment for strategic and tactical sourcing.

In addition, it addresses the following areas in a comprehensive, yet easy to use and practical manner:
* Integrates strategic and operational concepts and practices
* Covers both clients and providers 
* Supports the practice of global sourcing by leveraging and integrating professional rigor for best practices 
* Provides practical knowledge, techniques, checklists and methodologies that can be used in any environment globally
* Includes many examples of current and emerging best practices
* Is broad and comprehensive, yet drills down to specific 'how to' details in all chapters
* Provides a global view of sourcing
It comes highly recommended.