In the past, the procurement organization has played a subordinate role in many companies. This situation is beginning to change as more managers question the existing structures and processes of their procurement system. And rightly so: Because an efficient buying organization is the prerequisite for a lasting optimization of the purchase pricing system. The organizational models, such as a centralized or decentralized purchasing, still in use today, have proved to be the “ideal way” only in the fewest of cases. more

In view of the dynamic markets and permanently increasing demands on the customers' part, ever more small and medium-sized enterprises come to realize the great importance of professional purchasing. Market requirements demand strategic, structural, organizational changes to ensure the competitiveness of companies. However, any procedural and organizational changes can only be as good as the people responsible for them. Thus, professional human resource management in purchasing plays a major role. more