A well-designed organizational structure facilitates clear communication, fosters collaboration, and streamlines decision-making processes, ensuring that purchasing decisions are made quickly and wisely. Effective purchasing involves not only the procurement of goods and services but also the strategic alignment of these activities with the organization’s goals and efficient workflow structures.
Consider the following important topics you have been studying. They are as follows:
Purchasing Policies and Procedures
Evaluate the two or three most important benefits to centralized purchasing authority. Justify your choices. Evaluate the two most important benefits to decentralized purchasing authority. Justify your choices.
Procurement
Research procurement careers on LinkedIn, including the business you previously identified in the unit discussion, along with its competitors. What are the Top 3 skills that job postings are looking for in a procurement candidate? Ensure you rank order these, with #1 being the one you determine is most sought after as a priority, and so forth, descending to #5. How do procurement professionals help a company develop a global network?
Organizational Design
Based on your research on purchasing organizational design, why do you think that choosing an organizational design is a complex process? What are some considerations that must be addressed that would lead to changing a supply management structure?
Complete your work in an APA style paper, including:
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