Global Sourcing & Purchasing Post 9/11

• Provides comprehensive importer and foreign entity guidelines for achieving cost savings, improving delivery turnaround time, securing compliance, building product classifications and optimizing trade for reduced or eliminated duties
• Explains how to set up a purchasing cost analysis program for quick evaluation and obtain cost savings via currency hedging and a forward currency contract, and provides activity-based costing information to help firms manage and benchmark logistics costs
• Discusses various levels of automation, from document imaging to full automation of the compliance process, including how RFID smart labels can improve your supply chain, and presents innovative ways of achieving JIT inventory for imported merchandise
• Covers global e-sourcing systems, applications, processes and best supply chain practices as well as new electronic procurement standardizations to analyze requirements, identify gaps and improve the interoperability of Internet-based eprocurement systems
• Reviews compliance with post 9/11 customs and security requirements for global trade and outlines processes and time lines for “ready-to-market” regulated product registrations
• WAV offers free downloadable slides that provide a high-level overview of the importance of an integrated logistics compliance system, a U.S. Customs 2005 Harmonized Tariff Schedule, and a list of helpful websites for regulatory product information and government forms required for U.S. clearance — available from the Web Added Value™ Download Resource Center

Michael Assaf, Cynthia Bonincontro & Stephen Johnsen were all international trade experts with Bayer Corporation. Together, they were responsible for over $5 billion in annual international transactions. Michael Assaf has recently moved on to the Lanxess Corporation.

Introduction: What’s Been Happening? 
Chapter 1. Importing and Inbound Supply Chain Planning 101 
Chapter 2. Operations and Procurement 
Chapter 3. Transportation in the Post 9/11 Global Procurement Environment 
Chapter 4. Other Departments That Play an Important Role: The Missing Links in Global Procurement Supply Chain Planning 
Chapter 5. The Other Government Agencies: The “Other Bureaus in Customs’ Neighborhood” 
Chapter 6. The Effects on Decision Making 
Chapter 7. The Money Generator and Compliance Portal 
Chapter 8. Trade Optimization: Programs That Contribute to a Company’s Bottom Line 
Chapter 9. The Effects of Heightened Security on the Inbound Supply Chain 
Chapter 10. Impact on Global Supply Chains 
Chapter 11. New Technology 
Chapter 12. The Future 
Index