Manufacturing Industry
What's hot in office.(Office Depot Inc., OfficeMax Inc., Staples Contract and Commercial Inc.)(Brief Article)
Purchasing, June, 2005 by Avery, Susan
This month's Office Technologies feature looks at how the big-four office products distributors Staples Contract Division, Corporate Express, OfficeMax, and Office Depot--respond to their customers' demands for supplier diversity. As the directors of the programs at these companies note that while it's important for both purchasers and their distributor suppliers to develop historically underutilized businesses, the suppliers also must meet rigorous quality, service and price requirements.
Says Wanda Lewis of OfficeMax, "If the product is not competitive, then we are not competitive." To learn more about the purchasing side of the supplier diversity issue, check out PURCHASING'S Global Procurement Conference available free on demand at...
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