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Leadership Practices in Procurement Management

Procurement—Creator of Value, Driver of Business Strategy

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Handbuch Industrielles Beschaffungsmanagement

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In most companies the procurement function has traditionally been an order generator for predetermined needs, focused on ensuring that sufficient materials and services were available to enable a company’s operations to take place, whether raw materials to feed a manufacturing plant or paper to keep the copiers running in an insurance company.

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Soellner, F.N., Mackrodt, C. (1999). Leadership Practices in Procurement Management. In: Hahn, D., Kaufmann, L. (eds) Handbuch Industrielles Beschaffungsmanagement. Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-99462-2_4

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