Publisher's Synopsis
This revised edition of a South African standard work offers many new insights. It retains the pragmatic approach, while the theoretical sections have been made more accessible to practitioners. The book encompasses a review of the basic purchasing and materials management principles and fields of application. Two new chapters have been added to address the needs of the modern purchasing manager in South Africa, namely (17) "Purchasing for Small Businesses" and (18) "People and Purchasing and Materials Management".
