World‐Class Purchasing Skills: An Empirical Investigation

Giunipero, Larry C.; Pearcy, Dawn H.

doi:10.1111/j.1745-493x.2000.tb00081.x

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“…Equally, Thai et al, (2011) andThai (2012) conclude that these skill sets are also highly sought after by the industry in Australia. Finally, Giunipero and Pearcy (2001) identify the key skill sets for purchasing professionals namely strategy, process management, teaming, decision making, behavioural and negotiation and quantitative 5 skills. Kovacs et al (2012) share a similar objective and their work focus on humanitarian logisticians.…”

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The relative emphasis on supply-chain/logistics topics by UK industry in hiring postgraduates and by UK universities in teaching and research

Bourlakis

Sodhi²,

Son³

2013

International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link AbstractWe examine how UK universities view different topics within supply chain management as seen in their research output and their post-graduate curricula and whether this view matches the relative emphasis on these aspects by UK-based employers when hiring.Using content analysis, we analysed: (1) UK-based supply-chain/logistics job ads, (2) abstracts of research articles by UK academics in supply-chain/logistics journals, and (3) the description of the postgraduate level supply-chain/logistics degrees in UK universities.Our findings show that the overall research output of UK universities is broadly in line with employers' needs with regards to the relative emphasis on different supply-chain topics. However, their relative emphasis on these topics in their teaching programmes is quite different. We suggest that universities need to look into their provision of academic programmes in relation to employers' needs and need to look into how to leverage their research output better for this purpose.

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The relative emphasis on supply-chain/logistics topics by UK industry in hiring postgraduates and by UK universities in teaching and research

Bourlakis

Sodhi²,

Son³

2013

International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications

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“…Specialization is a collection of the most important skills for purchasing professionals (collected by Giunipero & Pearcy, 2000;Petersen, Frayer, & Scannell, 2000;Trent & Monczka, 2003). Configuration is taken from Paulraj (2011) and the scale used for involvement is based on Bals et al (2009).…”

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The influence of organizational structure on international purchasing success

Tressin¹,

Richter

Midgley³

2015

Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Partial Least Squares Path Modeling: The Conference for PLS Users

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International purchasing is one of the most important strategic topics for managers and attracts more and more interest among researchers. Yet, research often lacks strong theoretical and systematic insights on the intricacies of purchasing success and does not make enough use of advanced empirical methods. We apply a structural equation modeling technique to better research into the intricacies of higher or lower purchasing performance owing to different organizational design choices. We build our model on the resource-based view and on transaction cost economics and make use of survey data of purchasers engaging in international sourcing activities. We find four important drivers of purchasing performance, namely specialization, configuration, standardization and centralization. The importance of these drivers seems to be contingent on the sourcing environments, namely on the characteristics attributed to high cost and low cost countries.

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“…The reform of the teaching content is the core of the teaching reform while the reform of the teaching methods is the powerful support. Ideal leads the practice [6]. Totally new teaching conception is the necessary foundation of achieving the success of the reform both in teaching content and in teaching methods, and even more is the key to find the way out of the problem.…”

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The Reform of Logistics Education Based on "High-Quality Personnel Training" in Higher Vocational School

Zhao¹,

Li²

2014

Advances in Intelligent Systems Research

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-Currently in China, the contradiction between the supply and demand of logistics personnel has protrude the shortcomings of the development of the logistics industry, which has made the task of training large numbers of logistics talent very imperative in China .Based on the background of reflecting both the logistics education and the prominent supply -demand contradiction of logistics personnel, the article come up with the new education conception that is guided by logistics demand, rooted in professional talents and with the aim to harvest comprehensive quality, the article also come up with measures to the logistics educational reform, with the aim to improve the logistics classroom-teaching, train highquality logistics talent to satisfy the need of the society.

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World‐Class Purchasing Skills: An Empirical Investigation

Cited by 130 publications

References 6 publications

The relative emphasis on supply-chain/logistics topics by UK industry in hiring postgraduates and by UK universities in teaching and research

The relative emphasis on supply-chain/logistics topics by UK industry in hiring postgraduates and by UK universities in teaching and research

The influence of organizational structure on international purchasing success

The Reform of Logistics Education Based on "High-Quality Personnel Training" in Higher Vocational School

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