Purchasing and Supply Managent. Fourtheenth Edition By Johnson, Leenders and Flynn.
Case Study 3-1 on Iowa Elevators.
Questions:
1. What were the executives looking for from the procurement group to provide?
2. What is the corporate structure today and what will it look like in future?
3. What is the overall plan? What does purchasing have to do with the categories? If they do it, then what is the outcome? Would it encounter support or resistance?
4. Create a case to clarify the new structure and the benefit that will be created from it.