Measuring Supply Management’s Budget Effects Introduction of Return on Spend as an Indicator of Supply Management’s Financial Effectiveness

Despite its strategic focus, supply management has not yet gained due recognition for its value contribution since it can still not reliably show its effects on the corporate bottom line. Based on practice-oriented and practice-relevant research methods, Anna Quitt, therefore, designs an integrated...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Quitt, Anna
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wiesbaden Gabler Verlag 2010, 2010
Edition:1st ed. 2010
Series:Einkauf, Logistik und Supply Chain Management
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:Despite its strategic focus, supply management has not yet gained due recognition for its value contribution since it can still not reliably show its effects on the corporate bottom line. Based on practice-oriented and practice-relevant research methods, Anna Quitt, therefore, designs an integrated process for measuring supply management’s budget effects and develops Return on Spend as an innovative financial effectiveness indicator. She shows that transparent savings measurement needs to start with supply management’s budgeting integration to overcome current measurement deficiencies and to establish supply management as an equal business partner
Physical Description:XXIV, 250 p. 66 illus online resource
ISBN:9783834984906