Much has happened in procurement circles since David N. Burt's book Proactive Procurement was published in 1984. We like to think Proactive Procurement had at least a small part in focusing attention on the importance of procurement in containing costs, improving quality, increasing productivity, shortening concept to customer delivery times, and strengthening the integration of materials management into the total operations of an organization. A Purchasing Managers Guide to Strategic Proactive Procurement retains the visionary topics of Proactive Procurement while adding the very latest and, indeed, future procurement methods for effective purchasing in the twenty-first century
