Development of a Project Purchasing Information System

Nowadays, the global marketplace, total customer satisfaction, total quality management, shortening product life cycles, continuous improvement, and many other factors are forcing companies to think overtraditional strategies. New opportunities and responsibilities in the area of product and process development induce the automotive industry to develop new ways for keeping competitive with firms all over the world.The rapidly changing supply scene, with cycles of abundance and shortages, varying prices, lead times, capabilities and availabilities, provides acontinuing challenge to those organizations wishing to obtain a maximum contribution from this area. To achieve all targets, an information system is required which is able to manage and to control business related to purchasing. Information as a corporate asset is a determinate factor of whether the company will succeed in the fast paced global new century and beyond. For that better solutions concerning gaining, maintaining and storinginformation have to be evaluated for holding advantage over competitors.

Darko Kragulj, MBA&Eng.: Studium des Wirtschaftsingenieurwesens an der HS Mannheim und Studium des Master of Business Administration and Engineering an der HS Rosenheim. Logistikplaner bei einem weltweit agierenden Automobilhersteller in Stuttgart.