Analyzing the Effectiveness of Purchasing Management: Supplier Selection, Purchasing Costs, and ICT

The report should be presented as follows:

• Introduction -Outline the purpose of this essay (about 100 words) and provide the key information about the selected local retailer (about 200 words), information includes products, supplier markets, competitors, organizational goals and strategies etc.

• Supplier Selection Criteria and Issues -Analyze the purchasing goals and needs of the selected organization and the relevant information. Recommend the appropriate criteria to be considered when selecting supplier(s) and the decisions required to be made for issues relating to supplier selection (about 500 words).

• ICT For Purchasing Operations -Analyze the purchasing goals and needs of the selected organization and the relevant information. Recommend the ICT to be applied for improving purchasing operations (about 500 words).

• Purchasing Cost Analysis -Analyze the purchasing goals and needs of the selected organization and the relevant information. Recommend the appropriate tools to be considered for analysing the purchasing costs (about 500 words).

• Conclusion -Reinstates all of the significant parts of this report and refers the reader back to the focus that have outlined in the introduction and to the central topic. This gives the report a sense of unity (about 200 words)

• Referencing -All sources referred to in your essay, including any diagrams, must be referenced to in-text and be included in a full reference list at the end of the assignment, according to the APA system of referencing. Use the following Kaplan resource to assist you to do this accurately and consistently: