Purchase Specifications and Profit Performance
International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management
ISSN: 0960-0035
Article publication date: 1 January 1991
Abstract
The nature of specifications received by purchasing functions has a heavy influence on an organisation′s ability to minimise bought‐out costs and thus maximise profits. The nature of purchase specifications and the effect of other functions upon their creation are discussed; “open” and “closed” specifications and the relationship between purchase specifications and profit performance are demonstrated, defining the precise type of purchase specification needed to enable the purchasing function to achieve its primary goal of cost‐minimisation.
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Citation
Ramsay, J. (1991), "Purchase Specifications and Profit Performance", International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Vol. 21 No. 1, pp. 34-41. https://doi.org/10.1108/09600039110005123
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1991, MCB UP Limited