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This chapter illustrates different approaches that can be used to organise the Purchasing function in practice. In addition to several versions of organisation structures, an overview of process design and optimisation is given. Readers shall thus be placed in a position to transfer these methods to their own fields of work and implement them.
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Cf. Fritz and von der Oelsnitz (2006, p. 83).
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Fritz, W., & Von der Oelsnitz, D. (2006). Marketing: Elemente marktorientierter Unternehmensführung. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.
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Weigel, U., Ruecker, M. (2017). The Purchasing Organisation. In: The Strategic Procurement Practice Guide. Management for Professionals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57651-0_3
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