Purchase Order Management Best Practices

In today’s competitive business climate, companies with effective procurement strategies are beginning to separate themselves from the competition. Successful purchase order management (POM) is now a critical core competency and organizations in all industries have started investigating tools and techniques to help them succeed. 


Purchase Order Management Best Practices gives business professionals a comprehensive framework for lowering costs, improving efficiency, eliminating non-value added activities, and optimizing the transformation program for the POM process. It offers practical, proven tactics and detailed guidance into every aspect of POM process redesign: mapping the existing process, intelligently leveraging new technologies, building a strategy for strengthening the relationship with suppliers, identifying comprehensive related metrics, and much more, including industry success stories and lessons learned. 


Although POM process transformation is a hot topic, there is not a single book that focuses on the recipe of success for a POM transformation program. This text fills the gap by providing a breakthrough start-to-finish roadmap for organizations to implement the POM transformation program successfully.


Key Features


--Provides a comprehensive framework for lowering costs, improving efficiency, and eliminating non-value activities ideal for any reader interested in learning how to optimize the POM process

--Outlines strategies for senior managers in planning POM transformation programs, and provides middle managers the tools to effectively manage and implement best practices

--Offers practical, proven tactics and detailed guidance into every aspect of POM process redesign: mapping existing processes, intelligently leveraging new technologies, strengthening supplier relationships, and identifying comprehensive related metrics

--Presents innovative strategies for selecting the right replenishment program and software provider, rolling out the solution to all suppliers, providing ongoing support for the solution, and establishing a consistent process for metrics tracking

--WAV offers free downloadable slides, which illustrate POM best practices and technology architecture, plus an effective change management template — available from the Web Added Value™ Download Resource Center at www.jrosspub.com