Purchasing and Materials Management Handbook Service

Author: Charles K. Coe
Format/Frequency of Update: 3-ring Binder with CD/ 1 update annually
Price: $455
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Get Everything You Need to Improve Your Skills and Guide Your Purchasing Decisions in One Easy-to-Use Resource.
Spending taxpayer dollars is a demanding, very public, and often politically charged job. Government purchasing agents often are closely scrutinized by a public that wants to know its money is being spent wisely. Make your job easier with the Sheshunoff® State and Local Government Purchasing and Materials Management Handbook, the first to provide all the information you need in one place.

This comprehensive reference is designed to help you answer day-to-day questions and make long-range plans. It's an authoritative book to guide your decisions and an easy-to-use training tool for improving your skills and bringing new hires up to speed.

This clearly written Handbook covers every aspect of your job as a government purchasing agent:

Setting up a purchasing and materials management program
Selecting the right vendor
Identifying cost saving priorities
Contracting for services
Developing inventory control and management procedures
Establishing, operating, and maintaining a fixed-asset inventory system
Using the internet for purchasing opportunities
Preparing a specification
Understanding the basic purchasing cycle
Making the lease vs. purchase decision
Adhering to ethical standards, and more

Get a Reference Tool Designed Specifically for Your Job.
The Handbook also covers the requirements of the Uniform Commercial Code and best practices recommended by industry associations. Most important, everything presented applies specifically to your job as a state or local government purchasing agent.

You'll also find lots of sample documents and forms to help you do your job, including:

Sample purchasing policy manual
Sample budgeting questionnaire
Sample supplier evaluation forms
Sample purchasing procedure checklist
OMB staffing formula for computing costs
Sample fixed-asset inventory records for land, buildings, equipment, etc.
Sample perpetual inventory record
Equipment screening certificate form
Sample changes to financial statement
Sample procedures for disposition of fixed assets
Standard financial ratios, and much more.

Best of all, you also get them on CD. It's part of your subscription to the Sheshunoff State and Local Government Purchasing and Materials Management Handbook. The CD includes most of the sample materials found in the Handbook, so it's easy to tailor them to your specific needs or put your headings and titles on them.

Get All the Guidance You Need at the Lowest Possible Cost.
The Sheshunoff State and Local Government Purchasing and Materials Management Handbook covers more ground than any other single resource. And it costs far less than bringing in a consultant.

Plus, as part of your service, you get an annual update to help you stay on top of the latest rules, best practices, and techniques. So whether you're an old hand or new to the job, this Handbook will answer your questions, show you the best practices and techniques, and keep you up-to-speed with new developments.

Sheshunoff Information Services Inc. specializes in professional publications written by hands-on experts for hands-on users with a practical, application-oriented focus. More than 20,000 state and local government offices use Sheshunoff manuals to improve budgeting, capital improvement planning, investment management, and much more.

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Just click above to order, or call us at (800) 456-2340, and we'll send you the manual. Use the manual for a full thirty days. If you're not completely satisfied, you may return the manual along with the invoice and owe nothing.