Profitable partnering for lean construction /

This practical guide focuses on the ability of long-term strategic supply-side partnering to convert the traditionally high level of unnecessary costs into better and more sustained profits for all involved. It also explains how clients need to use partnering to ensure best value from their precurem...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cain, Clive Thomas.
Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.
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Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
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Summary:This practical guide focuses on the ability of long-term strategic supply-side partnering to convert the traditionally high level of unnecessary costs into better and more sustained profits for all involved. It also explains how clients need to use partnering to ensure best value from their precurement process and sets out a selecion process for partnering. Written in an accessible style it explains why supply-side partnering makes good commercial sense and shows how to put the long-term strategic partnerships in place in each sector (consultants, construction contractors, specialist contractors, sub-contractors and manufacturers). This is a 'how to' book written in terms everyone can understand, without the need for an expert interpreter or costly training.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 241 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-237) and index.
ISBN:9780470773765
0470773766
1405148055
9781405148054
1280213302
9781280213304
9781405110860
1405110864