Manufacturing Industry
IT and purchasing: Celestica's new negotiating tool. (Strategic Sourcing).
Purchasing, October, 2002
The key to buying IT goods and services in an extremely cost-competitive environment: Involve purchasing. Early. This is especially true for electronics manufacturing services providers (EMS) like Celestica. There, purchasing works dosely with the organization's information technology (IT) operation to negotiate agreements for IT hardware, software and services.
As an EMS provider, Celestica produces computer and communications equipment for such high-tech customers as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lucent, Motorola and Sun Microsystems. In 2001, the company's revenues were more than $10 billion (U.S. dollars).
Based in Toronto, Gelestica has more than 40 locations in 17 countries (North America, South America, Europe and Asia) so its IT function is...
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