Purchasing Fundamentals for Today's Buyer

by Harry E. Hough

An overview of the buying/purchasing function, for the novice and experienced professional, this book offers tips and techniques on a variety of issues and concerns. Hough provides how-to information... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132463563
• ISBN13: 9780132463560
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 2.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.2" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

A Must for Every Buyer

Every business buyer should read this book. It is amazing how many buyers do not know or practice some of the most basic and simple principles of business buying. Even many experienced buyers are ignorant of some of the proper methods of purchasing. This book will help buyers confirm that they are performing their job properly and effectively. Well written and easy to understand. Dr. Hough's first book, "The Handbook of Buying and Purchasing Management," is also a must read.

Purchasing Demystified

Dr. Harry Hough's latest text is a quick and easy guide to learn and apply established purchasing techniques.Purchasing Fundamentals for Today's Buyer is broad in scope and aimed primarily at the new and relatively inexperienced buyer. There are however new practices and procedures that can be adopted by even the most experienced supply chain professional. Dr. Hough studied both economics and mechanical engineering and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago. He is the Founder and current President of the American Purchasing Society, as well as a full time author and consultant, having held senior positions in purchasing, given seminars and taught at several colleges. Hough authored a previous version of this text in 1992 with James Ashley. The appendices are my favorite part and I feel the appendices alone are worth the price of the text. Many points are self-evident for experienced practitioners at the management level, but their implications from both an ethical and a strategic perspective are large. I really enjoyed the approach of this text: simple yet effective.

Best book for business buyers.

An excellent book about how to buy for business and how the purchasing professional buys. Gives everything the new buyer needs to know, such as where to find sources, how to negotiate, and the essentials of purchasing law.