Purchasing Books

Do you work for an outsourcing provider?
J Brian Heywood's book about outsourcing is a comprehensive look at the topic from the perspective of both the client considering outsourcing as a way to improve their competitiveness and the outsourcing service provider. Both types of organisations will gain an invaluable insight into the outsourcing world. The book gives sound advice and backs up the advice with loads of actual examples. The author explains how outsourcing, if handled correctly, has the potential to produce real tangible saving for all types of organisations, not just large ones. He also explains how outsourcing arrangements can fail and what clients and service providers should do to limit their risks of failure.
The book answers the questions:
· Why outsource?
· What are the benefits of outsourcing?
· Which functions should an organisation should consider outsourcing?
· What are the alternatives to full outsourcing?
· How does an organisation choose an outsourcing service provider?
The author argues the case for a `Business Satellite' approach to outsourcing where the client and the service provider establish a separate organisation that is jointly owned so both can share in the future benefits generated from the outsourcing agreement.
I would say that this book is a must read for any organisation looking for ways to improve their competitiveness in today's market.

This is an outstanding book. It has a wealth of information to help anyone interested in buying a computer. From beginner to expert, this book is for you. It has detailed information on every component that makes up a computer. This book will really help the consumer from getting ripped off!! Happy reading!!!

This book really explains things well. It goes through the whole car, system / part by system / part, explains what can go wrong, what repairs are useful, which aren't, common mistakes and ripoffs, etc. I'm learning a great deal about how cars work as I read. Really superb. Looks like current edition is 1993 and I don't see a newer one, but the info still seems very solid and useful. I'm currently reading a copy out of my local library and will probably buy one. This book should be reissued and aggressively marketed, in my opinion.

After training under Hau Lee at Stanford's Global Supply Chain Management forum, I picked up a copy of this book as further reading. This is an excellent compilation of papers written by a veritable "who's who" list of leading supply chain authors such as David Simch-Levi, Hau Lee, Warren Haussman and Seungjin Whang to name just a few.

The book takes you from core concepts and emerging practices through to the state-of-the-art in supply chain design and operation including e-commerce and web-enabled collaboration and reinforces the concepts presented with case studies and examples. Highly recommended to the strategist, manager and practitioner with an already strong background in the basics of supply chain operations.

Great book for all involved in the Supply Chain process.

No complaints.

The book is a basic guide for those purchasing professional who are willing to seriously re-think the whole Procurement Process with a creative problem-solving approach. "Procurement Reengineering" provides you with all the necessary tools to analyse your current Purchasing organization and reinvent it giving also a few theoretical concepts about the BPR, best practices and fresh ideas. It is the necessary starting point even for the implementation of e-procurement projects.

Professional Gun Dealing is a complete and comprehensive instruction manual for buying, selling, and trading firearms for fun and profit. Ryan Kephart shows the reader how to get started, firearms trends, the ethnics involved in gun dealing, doing business by mail, working gun shows, financing a gun dealership, local and co-op advertising, and more. Practical, reliable, with a very highly recommended and accessible text, Professional Gun Dealing is ideal for the novice aspiring to become a gun dealer, and is informative, rewarding reading for firearm collectors as well.

Improving the management of supply chains is a challenging task. Every supply chain is unique, and there are many areas of operations that are affected by the supply chain and conversely those same areas affect the supply chain's performance. This book by no means solves all supply chain problems, but it does identify a number of areas that have an actual or potential impact on the performance of the supply chain.
Since the supply chain is so critical to any commercial activity any assistance that can be provided will enable the supply chain manager to improve his supply chain/s performance, albeit incrementally.
The best service this book provides is the identification of those areas that impact the supply chain. Many supply chain managers may be so focussed on a limited number of areas and overlook some other important areas that impact the supply chain.
Potential solutions to a number of supply chain problems are presented, and these solutions are scientifically based. In other words they have been tested out in empirical, real world situations. So the advice that one can take from these solutions is sound and not just based on someone's opinion.

This book methodically details the duties and responsibiities of purchasing agents as well as the legal ramifications of negotiations, contracts, and performance. It's written in laymen's terms so it simplifies the complex issues of such agency. Buy it.

When Bill Gates bought a George Bellows oil for twenty-seven-and-a-half million dollars in November of 1999, the national media at last took notice of what may be the most important genre of American art - the Ashcan period of the early 1900's. This wonderful book captures the lives, times, and works of the six artists who brought the streets of turn-of-the-century New York City to thrilling life. Bellows, Sloan, Henri, Glackens, Luks, and Shinn shared a collective talent and daring unseen before or since in the United States, and the book presents their best works in gorgeous color. It also delves into both the men's and the city's history to place the art in context.

Alfred Lord Tennyson once praised Rudyard Kipling for his 'divine fire.' Of the six artists here, Bellows, Sloan, and Henri clearly possessed that fire.

Bellows's unflinching depiction of New York's seedy side reveals a city simultaneously frightening, comical, and beautiful. Sloan's more affectionate touch finds warm delight in the common and mundane. The vitality of Henri's portraits is nothing short of remarkable.

If you buy this book for nothing else, buy it for Sloan. Beautiful, accessible, challenging paintings. And you won't find yourself in a competition with Bill Gates. =)