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In this essay I analyzed Avery’s article called “MRO sourcing goes global.

Purchasing” and identified three best observations inside it, as well as describing how a

companythat I’ve worked for would improve with these practices.

According to Avery (2009), maintenance, repair and operations or MRO goods

and services buyers at other establishments that operate worldwide are taking different

strategies and are similarly successful. Some companies use locating strategies aiming at

global, national, regional or local markets with industrial sources that serve customers

from different areas. Other companies negotiate prices with global manufacturers and buy

through third-parties from them. The article gives, as an example, United Technologies

Corp. who are bearing in mindacombined supply or outsourcing method to the buy, by

hiring intermediaries to take over the buying process, containing the provider’s

technologies with their own.

Another example is Procter and Gamble where the acquiring operations are

organized by spending category. Thus, every category is marked as a spend pool, having

adistinctivetactic, as well as sub-tactics for groups of similar items. The same way, MRO

is marked as a spend pool with worldwide tactics being performed locally. Dow

Chemical Co. does their strategy by starting from a global point as the preferred strategy,

then moving to regional strategy, then reaching a local strategy. This allowed them to

reach customers in over 160 countries making their strategy sourcing company world-

wide.

As far as the company that I currently work for, outsourcing would workbecause

we would hire third-parties to deal with specific departments that we do not handle well

enough. These people would be specialists in those areas and they would help us

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Article Review1 Article Review Name INF/336 – Project Procurement Management Article Review2 In this essay I analyzed Avery’s article called “MRO sourcing goes global. Purchasing” and identified three best observations inside it, as well as describing how a companythat I’ve worked for would improve with these practices. According to Avery (2009), maintenance, repair and operations or MRO goods and services buyers at other establishments that operate worldwide are taking different strategies and are similarly successful. Some companies use locating strategies aiming at global, national, regional or local markets with industrial sources that serve customers from different areas. Other companies negotiate prices with global manufacturers and buy through third-parties from them. The article gives, as an example, United Technologies Corp. who are bearing in mindacombined supply or outsourcing method to the buy, by hiring intermediaries to take over the buying process, containing the provider’s technologies with their own. Another example is Procter and Gamble where the acquiring operations are organized by spending category. Thus, every category is marked as a spend pool, ...
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