This informative, comprehensive, yet practical guide provides readers with a complete tool-kit of how to approach global sourcing successfully. Based on real world experiences on implementing and sustaining global sourcing the book provides readers with key guidance on:

Key Features

• Foundations of Strategic Sourcing
• Management, risk, governance and legal considerations
• Transition planning and the end-game
• Future trends, summary and lessons learned
• Organizational change, innovation and relationship management
• Successful principles for new business development from a service provider perspective

In addition, it addresses the following areas in a comprehensive, yet easy to use and practical manner:

• Integrates strategic and operational concepts and practices
• Covers both clients and providers
• Supports the practice of global sourcing by leveraging and integrating professional rigor for best practices
• Provides practical knowledge, techniques, checklists and methodologies that can be used in any environment globally
• Includes many examples of current and emerging best practices
• Is broad and comprehensive, yet drills down to specific 'how to' details in all chapters
• Provides a global view of sourcing