Purchase Order Management Best Practices: Process, Technology, and Change Management

This ground-breaking volume brings together the latest advances in the field of purchase order management (POM) and offers a comprehensive framework for lowering costs, improving efficiency, eliminating non-value activities, and optimizing the POM process. "Purchase Order Management Best Practices" provides practical and proven methods, and detailed guidance on every aspect of the POM process redesign - from mapping the existing process and intelligent implementation of new technologies, to strengthening supplier relationships and providing continuing support - all accompanied by real industry case studies. This volume also includes details of the key performance indicators for a POM transformation program, and the typical benefits successful implementation can bring.