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Tuesday 22. February 2011

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Free of charge: First dictionary of purchasing for iPad and iPhone by Kerkhoff Consulting
 
Düsseldorf, February 22, 2011– From "advanced purchasing" to "bullwhip effect" and all the way to "maverick buying": The ever more complex world of industrial buyers and supply chain managers also brings about an ever more complex language. A maze of words sometimes difficult to understand for novices and seasoned professional buyers alike. To cast light on the matter, the purchasing consultancy Kerkhoff Consulting therefore published its first free app for iPad and iPhone: "Das Einkaufslexikon" (The dictionary of purchasing) with 770 special terms.
 

"Today, buyers have ever more responsibility in their companies", says Gerd Kerkhoff, managing director of Kerkhoff Consulting. "Prominent cases, such as Barbara Kux from Siemens, show that supply chain managers today can even reach board member status in DAX companies [DAX stands for German blue chip stock market index]. This would not be conceivable if the world of buyers weren't much more complex today than even ten years ago."

In today's enterprises, buyers have commercial boundary role functions; they communicate across departments and across countries. Even the academic community has been paying ever more attention to the formerly rather non-academic discipline. One result is that the purchasing language is becoming more specific and more and more international.

"Das Einkaufslexikon" for iPad and iPhone will help not only novices but also seasoned executives to look up all the important terms and their synonyms within a few seconds and thus be very quickly up-to-date in terms of the language. A "learn" function helps users to improve their know-how in the world of terminology of supply chain specialists.

Starting immediately, the application can be downloaded free of charge in the Apple App Store. "Das Einkaufslexikon" will be continuously updated and revised by Kerkhoff Consulting.

Media Contact

Kerkhoff Consulting GmbH
Christian Pfeiffer
Head of Corporate Communications

Tel.: +49 (0)211 / 62 180 61- 0
c.pfeiffer(at)kerkhoff-consulting.com

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