Global teams face practice barriers
28 August 2012
Creating a truly global purchasing team requires more than just an appreciation of different languages and time-zones, the conference heard.
Craig Lardner, group manager of supply management at the BOC Group, said that other barriers, such as differences in past practices, systems and remuneration packages, frustrate efforts to unite a geographically dispersed team.
At BOC, a leading industrial gases producer, the challenge had been to get 200 purchasers spread across the Americas, Europe and Asia...