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Purchasing Performance Measurements is the first in a series of comprehensive guides to critical areas in Purchasing. Read this book to learn how to maintain your competitive edge and to use measurements to continuously improve. Just the facts. Purchasing Performance Measurements covers the How to implement and why. Traditional accounting practices fail to pinpoint troubles which are eating away at profit margins and providing an opportunity for the competition to capture market share. Traditional accounting practices fail to identify recovery opportunities in a company. They also overlook the real (root) causes of waste as well as cost reduction through the elimination of non-value-added activities or the improvement of value-added activities. Traditional accounting practices favor quick fixes to reduce costs either by reducing labor or by forcing suppliers to cut costs. These actions not only avoid internal issues of waste, continuous improvement, and the identification of true cost drivers and misallocated costs, but can create even more intractable problems via the neglect. Avoidance is a big issue here and it reminds us of weeds in our lawns. Cutting them off at the surface on

Author

Mel Pilachowski

Publisher

West Palm Beach, FL: PT Publications

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780945456216

Subjects

Management, Business

Updated

2026-03-24