- Offers a ground-breaking new approach to delivering winning negotiations in procurement and supply chain management
- Provides the vital tools and comprehensive tactics for a detailed, planned approach to negotiation
- Helps purchasers to evaluate a supplier in advance, assess the sales team, and tailor their negotiation strategy
- New to this edition: changing themes in procurement such as near shoring, update of contextual global factors to negotiation.
Negotiation for Procurement and Supply Chain Professionals
A Proven Approach for Negotiations with Suppliers
A step-by-step approach to delivering winning negotiations with tools and tactics for purchasing and supply chain professionals.
Key features at a glance
EAN: 9781789662580
Edition: 3
Published:
Format: 234x155
480 pages
About the book
Highly effective negotiation skills are an essential element of a purchasing and supply chain professional's toolkit.
Negotiation for Procurement and Supply Chain Professionals provides a step-by-step approach to delivering winning negotiations and getting game-changing results. It provides purchasers and supply chain managers with the necessary tools and tactics for a detailed, planned approach to negotiation.
Negotiation for Procurement and Supply Chain Professionals allows the purchasing professional or the buying team to evaluate the supplier in advance, assess the sales team, and tailor their negotiation strategy depending on concession strategies, cultural influences and game theory. Negotiation for Procurement and Supply Chain Professionals provides a strong framework for discussion in advance of the meeting, allowing the negotiator to plan their agenda, objectives and tactics. Based upon the Red Sheet® Methodology, this book is a proven and collaborative technique used by many companies globally. The new edition includes supply chain planning, updates on multi-party negotiation for supply chain negotiations, Brexit as a retrospective example of negotiation and how the negotiation capability will need to change in the future.
About the authors
Jonathan O'Brien is the CEO of Positive Purchasing Ltd, the international procurement and negotiation consultancy and training provider. With over 30 years of experience working in purchasing, he has worked all over the world to help global organizations increase their negotiation and purchasing capability through training, education and working directly with practitioners and executive teams to drive in the adoption of negotiation and other strategic purchasing methodologies. He is also author of Supplier Relationship Management, now in its second edition, The Buyer's Toolkit and Category Management in Purchasing, now in its fourth edition, all published by Kogan Page.
I suspect it will become a classic of our profession for many years to come.
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