ABSTRACT
Purchasing, as a commercial concept, is a weapon – in the liberal economic sense – linked intimately to business. A logistician can become quite astute in optimizing opposite flows of goods and money. If this logistician has a competitive mindset, he will focus on achieving better flows than his rivals – even if his rival is often another logistician operating within the same group. Such mindset is positive but will not make him the conscious contributor to his company’s survival and victory on the market place downstream. Indeed, by devoting his intelligence and efforts to achieve excellence in the supply chain, a logistician takes on a role quite different from that of the buyer, who fights competitors for company survival.
