Analyse the effectiveness of these three aspects of the purchasing management,

Essay brief: assume that you are the purchasing manager of the organization. Analyse the effectiveness of these three aspects of the purchasing management, namely supplier selection criteria and related issues (eg. single or multiples sources, local or overseas etc.), purchasing costs, and the use of information & communication technologies (ICT) for purcahsing operations and management.

Please provide more detailed discussion and in-depth analysis with adequate referencing to the purchasing concepts and models.

Report should be presented as follows:

• Introduction – Outline the purpose of this essay (about 100 words is enough) and provide the key information about the selected local retailer (about 200words os enough), information includes products, supplier markets, competitors, organizational goals and strategies etc.
• Supplier Selectuon Criteria and Issues – Analyze the purchasing goals and needs of the selected organization and the relevant information. Recommend the appropriate criteria to be considered when selecting suppliers(s) and the decision required to be made for issues relating to suppliers selection (about 500 words).
• ICT For Purchasing Operations – Analyze the purchasing goals and needs of the selected organization and the relevant information. Recommend the ICT to be applied for improving purchasing operations (about 500 words).
• Purchasing Cost Analysis – Analyze the purchasing goals and needs of the selected organization and the relevant information. Recommend the appropriate tools to be considered for analysing the purchasing cost (about 500 words).
• Conclusion – Reinstates all of the significant parts of this report and refers the reader back to the focus that have outlined in the introduction and to the central topic (about 200 words).

You are required to consult and fully referance a minimum of 10 references (e.g. books; www; journal article from the full-text database; current affairs magazine; newspaper etc.) The use of WIKIPEDIA is not allowed.

The word range of this essay is about 2,000(+/- 10%) words. Spacing 1.5 with font size 12 using Arial font style.

You must use APA referencing system to acknowledge your sources of information. (both in-text, and as a reference list at the end). Every paragraph must have at least one in-text/citation (including introduction, recommendation and conclusion.