Hospitals play a significant role in the approximately 350 billion euros of the healthcare economy in Germany. At the same time, economic pressure is increasing due to the growing competition among hospitals. Strategic purchasing management has become an urgent necessity for clinics to ensure their profitability. However, practice shows that purchasing in hospitals is often only understood as the processing of orders. What steps are necessary to develop an ordering department into a professional purchasing department? This book provides the answers. Experienced experts from practice present state-of-the-art methods of strategic purchasing from leading industries such as retail and automotive, and adapt them to the hospital context. Topics and tools covered include price structure analyses, big data, and working methods.