No matter how long you have been in procurement, there is always a need to constantly upgrade your intellect. The uniqueness of all great procurement leaders comes with owning a piece of knowledge hidden inside the hustling pages of greatest books ever written. Some of the books recommended here have once been praised and pampered at the hands of young B2B entrepreneurs. These books carry rating based on personal opinion and the number of citations found.

1. Top Recommended Books on Purchasing or Procurement

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No matter how long you have been in procurement, there is always a need to
constantly upgrade your intellect. The uniqueness of all great procurement leaders
comes with owning a piece of knowledge hidden inside the hustling pages of
greatest books ever written. Some of the books recommended here have once
been praised and pampered at the hands of young B2B entrepreneurs.
These books carry rating based on personal opinion and the number of citations
found.

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1.Essentials of Supply Chain Management
Description: It comes with all the concepts that are core related to the supply chain
management. It outlines the most crucial tenets of latest technologies and
practices.
Author: Michael H. Hugos Rating: 4.7/5
2.Purchasing and Supply Chain Management
Description: This books helps gain an all round knowledge in supply chain
effectiveness and productivity. The competitive global market and a solid
perspective of managerial relationships simplified and explained which can be
related to in the present decade.
Author: Robert M. Monczka, Robert B. Handfield, Larry C. Giunipero and James L.
Patterson Rating: 4.5/5

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3.Proactive Purchasing In the Supply Chain: The Key to World-Class Procurement
Description: It explains how efficient the role of purchasing in one’s organization is.
It also helps with tips to increase Return on Investment (ROI), quality improvement
and cost cutting.
Author: David Burt, Sheila Petcavage and Richard Pinkerton Rating: 4.4/5
4.Common Sense Purchasing: Hard Knock Lessons Learned From a Purchasing Pro
Description: It is a much simpler guide towards purchasing and negotiations. The
book is filled with straight forward answers to all your B2B needs.
Author: Tom DePaoli Rating: 4.3/5

5. 5.Guide to Purchasing Management in a Manufacturing Business
Description: The book covers modern approaches to enterprise resource planning,
production activities and best practices in supply chain management from around the
world. It gives reviews and situation highlights which can be used to relate to real life
examples.
Author: Meir Liraz Rating: 3.6/5
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Our Customer Relationship Officers (CROs) can assist you with
finding suppliers, supplier competency assessment and supplier
audit. Based on your requirement, our relationship officers can find
local, national or global suppliers.Our Customer Relationship
Officers (CROs) can assist in raising RFQs, RFIs, receiving quotes,
compare technical and commercial quotes, purchase order
management, delivery/document tracking and payable processing.
Our Customer Relationship Officers (CROs) can analyses your
procurement data and provide actionable intelligence.
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• Assisted Purchase – buyer receives customized
quote from cormsquare’s procurement professionals.
• End to End E-Procurement Suite on cloud, that
helps buyers in managing enterprise purchase.
• Seamless Responsive Interface which works across devices.
• Digital B2B Store front for supplier with digital catalogue, ePayment and
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• Mini CRM Tools and Digital promotion assistance to our stakeholders.
• Collaboration with supplier to assist in Customer acquisition, engagement.
• Helping manufacturing and Buyers to master the transformation of their business.

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