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Flexible Resources Associates views, opinions and beliefs

• The purchasing and supply management function will often have a key role to play in the due diligence process within the acquiring organisation.

• Flexible Resources recommends that all members of the new purchasing team within the new and larger organisation

should be sent a clear message as to the key role they are

expected to play.

• Flexible Resources believes it is important for the head of the merged purchasing and supply management function to possess a wide range of abilities and skills, covering change

management, communication, persuasion and human resources.

• Flexible Resources considers it is vital that the threats and opportunities within the newly formed purchasing and supply

management function are managed/controlled quickly and effectively.

• Flexible Resources Associates would draw attention to the additional care which needs to be exercised when international factors and considerations are involved.

• Flexible Resources sees it as important that the purchasing and supply management function ensures that the supply market is kept abreast of the changes, decisions and initiatives impacting upon it.

• Flexible Resources takes the view that purchasing and supply management professionals need to minimise any

disadvantages created through diversification (as in their organisation being sold away from the parent company, for example).

When their employing organisation merges (through

acquisition or take-over) with another organisation,

purchasing and supply management professionals can be

involved in:

• the strategic and commercial process of the merger

• the business of fusing two or more separate purchasing

and supply management functions

• vertical integration e.g. the buying organisation taking over

a key supplier in order to secure supply and manage the

business more effectively.

2009-01-22 17:09:36