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Newpoint staff have written extensively about best practice in procurement and supply chain management, with over 100 articles in leading academic and practitioner journals.

The list below provides a selection of key publications, which are the most relevant to the Newpoint Supply Chain Academy and consulting service offers:

Articles Available for Download

Andrew Cox, "Beyond Kraljic: Understanding and Benchmarking World-Class and Best-in-Class Practice", DILForientering, Vol.45, No.5, August (2008).

Andrew Cox, "World-class or Best-in-class?", CPO Agenda, Summer (2008).

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Other Articles

Andrew Cox & Dan Chicksand, "Rethinking Policy Options for Industry: Appropriateness in Policies for Industry and for UK Farming and Food", Public Administration, Vol. 86, No.3 (2008).

Joe Sanderson & Andrew Cox "The Challenges of Supply Strategy Selection in a Project Environment: Evidence from Naval Shipbuilding", Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol.13, No.1 (2008).

Andrew Cox, Dan Chicksand & Martin Palmer, "Stairways top Heaven or Treadmills to Oblivion? Creating Sustainable Strategies in Red Meat Supply Chains", British Food Journal, Vol.109, No.9 (2007).

Andrew Cox, "Value for Whom? Win-Win and the Problem of Interests in Buyer and Supplier Exchange", DILForientering, Vol.44, No.7, October (2007).

Andrew Cox, "Transactions, Power and Contested Exchange: Towards a Theory of Exchange in Business Relationships", International Journal of Procurement, Vol. 1, Nos.1/2 (2007).

Andrew Cox, Dan Chicksand & Tong Yang, "The Proactive Alignment of Sourcing with Marketing and Branding Strategies: A Food Service Case", Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol.12, No.5 (2007).

Andrew Cox & Paul Ireland, "Relationship Management in the Project Environment: Theories and Tools", in Pryke, S. & Smith, H. (eds), The Management of Complex Projects: A Relationship Approach, Blackwell, Oxford (2006).

Andrew Cox, "The Problem with Win-Win", Logistikk & Innkjop, No.3 (2006).

Andrew Cox & Paul Ireland, "Strategic Purchasing and Supply Chain Management in the Project Environment: Theory and Practice". in Lowe, D & Leiringer, R (eds), Commercial Management of Projects: Defining the Discipline, Blackwell, Oxford (2006).

Andrew Cox & Dan Chicksand, "The Limits of Lean Management Thinking: The Case of Multiple Retailers and Food and Farming Supply Chains", European Management Journal, Vol.23, No.6, December (2005).

Andrew Cox, "The Problem with Win-Win", CPO Agenda, Vol.1, No.3, Autumn (2005).

Andrew Cox, Chris Lonsdale, Glyn Watson & Yi Wu, "Supplier Relationship Management as an Investment: Evidence from a UK Study", Journal of General Management, Vol. 30, No. 4, Summer (2005).

Andrew Cox, Dan Chicksand & Paul Ireland, "Overcoming Demand Management Problems: The Scope for Improving Reactive and Proactive Supply Management in the UK Health Service", Journal of Public Procurement, Vol.5, No.1 (2005).

Andrew Cox, Dan Chicksand, Tony Davies & Paul Ireland, "Sourcing Indirect Spend: A Survey of Current Internal and External Strategies for Non-Revenue Generating Goods and Services", Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol.41, No.2, Spring (2005).

Andrew Cox, Dan Chicksand & Paul Ireland, "Sub-Optimality in NHS Sourcing in the UK: Demand-Side Constraints on Supply-Side Improvement", Public Administration, Vol.83, No.2 (2005).

Andrew Cox, "Why Outsourcing Doesn’t Fly", CPO Agenda, Vol.1, No.1, Spring (2005).

Andrew Cox, "Business Relationship Alignment: The Commensurability of Value Capture and Mutuality in Buyer and Supplier Exchange", Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol.9, No.5 (2004).

Andrew Cox, Chris Lonsdale, Joe Sanderson & Glyn Watson "Managing Appropriately in Power Regimes: Relationship and Performance Management in 12 Supply Chain Cases", Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol.9, No.5 (2004).

Andrew Cox, "The Art of the Possible: Relationship Management in Power Regimes and Supply Chains", Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol.9, No.5 (2004).

Andrew Cox, "Strategic Outsourcing: Avoiding the Loss of Critical Assets and the Problems of Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard", Business Briefing: Global Purchasing and Supply Chain Strategies (2004).

Andrew Cox, Chris Lonsdale, Glyn Watson & Hong Qiao, "Supplier Relationship Management: A Framework for Understanding Managerial Capacity and Constraints", European Business Journal, Vol.15, No.3 (2003).

Andrew Cox & Paul Ireland, "Managing Construction Supply Chains: The Common Sense Approach", Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, Vol.9, No.5/6, October/December (2002).

Andrew Cox, "Managing with Power", The Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol.37, No.2, Spring (2001).

Andrew Cox, Glyn Watson & Joe Sanderson, "Supply Chains and Power Regimes", The Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol.37, No.2, Spring (2001).

Andrew Cox, "Understanding Buyer and Supplier Power", The Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol.37, No.2, Spring (2001).

Andrew Cox, "The Power Perspective in Procurement and Supply Management", The Journal of Supply Chain Management, Vol.37, No.2, Spring (2001).

Andrew Cox & David Parker, "Improving the Effectiveness of External Resource Management", International Journal of Business Performance Management, Vol.2, No.4 (2000).

Andrew Cox, "Power, Value and Supply Chain Management", Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Vol.4, No.4 (1999).

Andrew Cox, "On Power, Appropriateness and Procurement Competence", Supply Management, 2nd October (1997).

Andrew Cox, "Relational Competence and Strategic Procurement Management: Towards an Entrepreneurial and Contractual Theory of the Firm", European Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, Vol.2, No.1, March (1996).

For further information on these articles and how Newpoint can assist clients with competence assessment, development and improvement in procurement and supply chain management please contact us.
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