Group purchasing helps leverage decentralized spend

摘要

With 93 divisions and offices in the U.S.alone,the decentralized structure of Parker Hannifin's operations make a coordinated purchasing strategy challenging,to say the least.The US6 billion Cleveland-based maker of motion and control technologies realized gradually in the mid-1990s that its volumes were not being leveraged and the corporate structure was limiting the consolidation on indirect spend areas across business units.