Procurement helps move Boeing to Chicago on time. (The MRO Buy).(Boeing Company's Shared Services Group credits long-term supplier relationships)

Purchasing, February, 2002 by Avery, Susan

Candace C. Ismael, director of supplier management and procurement (SM&P) for The Boeing Company's Shared Services Group, says long-term supplier relationships were the key to her group's success at helping move Boeing's headquarters to Chicago. "Because we were very specific in defining our requirements, they were very successful at meeting them," she says. In her post, Ismael oversees the purchase of nearly $4 billion annually of nonproduction goods and services including MRO, computing hardware, software and network products, capital equipment, and construction.

Many of the requirements associated with the move were demanding. Once top management made the announcement in May 2001 that the company had selected Chicago as its new world-headquarters...

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