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This trend away from the daily procurement function ( tactical purchasing ) resulted in several changes in the industry.
Both of these functions permitted purchasing departments to make the biggest financial contribution to the organization.
These professionals not only focused on the bidding process and negotiating with suppliers, but the entire supply function.
This value was manifested in lower inventories, less personnel, and getting the end product to the organization ’ s consumer quicker.
Purchasing manager ’ s success in these roles resulted in new assignments outside to the traditional purchasing function – logistics, materials management, distribution, and warehousing.
More and more purchasing managers were becoming Supply Chain Managers handling additional functions of their organizations operation.
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