Straight to the Bottom Line: An Executive's Roadmap to World-Class Supply Management.

• Author: Marshall, Jeffrey
• Position: Brief article - Book review

Straight to the Bottom Line: An Executive's Roadmap to World-Class Supply Management. By Robert A. Rudzki, Douglas Smock, Michael Katzorke and Shelley Stewart Jr. J. Ross Publishing, $39.95.

Procurement and supply chain management have been elevated to a high corporate priority in the past couple of decades, and this book uses that phenomenon as a platform to explore basic procurement strategies and best practices.

"Straight to the Bottom Line" is actually a trademarked term coined by Rudzki, president of Greybeard Advisors LLC in Pittsburgh and a procurement consultant who wrote "World-Class Supply Practices Boost Shareholder Value" in the April issue of Financial Executive. His co-authors include an editor with long experience covering purchasing subjects and procurement executives at Smiths Aerospace and Tyco International.

Well-organized and boosted by good charts and...