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The role of purchasing in the agile enterprise.
BACKGROUND
Agile competitive strategies require a market-focused, total-systems, strategic orientation that results in the ability to rapidly respond to changing customer demands and market conditions. Specifically, four dimensions of agile competitive strategies have been identified: (1) being a solution producer; (2) having collaborative production systems; (3) being knowledge-driven; and (4) maintaining an adaptive organization.[1] Successful implementation of these four dimensions allow firms to develop their people, information, processes, and management into coupled and dynamic systems. The result is long-term value-added relationships with key constituents ...
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