Purchasing Agenda 2020 – Procurement in the Future

Securing and Expanding Competitive Advantages through Visionary Purchasing

What will have happened to purchasing and the procurement market in the year 2020? What are the effects of political and demographic change, as well as ecological and economical changes?

The current economic situation shows that those companies coming to terms in visionary ways with their market environment will also be more flexible to be able to adjust to market changes. These companies will defy even unexpected changes by using different action scenarios, and they will be able to act accordingly.

Existing supplier structures will change, sociocultural framework conditions will influence procurement, communications will be more direct and faster. In their book, the authors use concrete examples to show the effects such future developments will have on purchasing. They believe in constructively dealing with the changes, profiting from them and minimizing any possible risks. The authors also provide concrete advice on maintaining and expanding competitiveness which will be increasingly decided by a future-oriented procurement system.

 Wiley-VCH, Weinheim
1st edition - November 2009
39,90 Euro / 64,- SFR
2009. 206 pages, hard cover
- non-fiction book -
ISBN-10: 3-527-50501-6
ISBN-13: 978-3-527-50501-2 - Wiley-VCH, Weinheim