Project management strategies for procurement

摘要

To some purchasing executives,it seems like just yesterday when procurement tended to work in a functional silo,independent of what was going on in other parts of the company."[Procurement in those days] tended to be a backroom function that took orders from departments and placed them with suppliers,"recalls James Kiser,vice president of operations for ADR North America in Ann Arbor,Mich.But today procurement's role is much more cross-functional and involves working with various parts of the enterprise in a much more project-based strategy.Goals are established,teams are set up and results are measured and driving that kind of work presents a new set of management challenges for procurement.