Subject category:
Production and Operations Management
Published by:
Ivey Publishing
Version: 2010-01-08
Revision date: 16-Nov-2011
Length: 4 pages
Data source: Field research
Abstract
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: (1) membership size; (2) types of products and services purchased; (3) qualitative and quantitative benefits of co-op involvement; (4) vendor management; and (5) allocation of resources.
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Abstract
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: (1) membership size; (2) types of products and services purchased; (3) qualitative and quantitative benefits of co-op involvement; (4) vendor management; and (5) allocation of resources.