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Purchasing Co-op
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One of the founders of a small business owners' purchasing cooperative organized four months earlier, was reflecting on its successful performance. The members of the co-op were willing to share responsibilities in the management of the co-op's primary activities of obtaining price quotes, invoicing members, and making delivery arrangements. The members were currently considering the possibility of extending the types of materials purchased collaboratively to services such as photocopying and printing of brochures and business cards. She wondered how best to promote the growth of the purchasing co-op and therefore, needed to create an action and implementation plan, considering: membership size, types of products and services purchased, qualitative and quantitative benefits of co-op involvement, vendor management and allocation of resources.
學習目標
The case is intended as a brief introduction to one means of vendor management, purchasing co-operatives (informally arranged). It is planned for use in a logistics and supply management course, or as a supplementary case on purchasing for the operations management core course. The case is intended for use by individuals and students with limited to no prior exposure to such a purchasing arrangement or to vendor management issues for small businesses. The conceptual issues to be explored revolve around: vendor selection and management; formation and management issues related to purchasing co-operatives (informal agreements and, with a supplementary reading such as Johnson, P.F. (1999), formal arrangements); and consolidation of orders. Further, these concepts are explored as they relate to a small business and enterprise.