Purchasing within Aliaxis
In 2006 the purchasing function was one of a small number of disciplines that the UK businesses elected to manage on a central basis. In January 2007 the Aliaxis UK Purchasing Department was the first centralised department to be created within Aliaxis with others following suit later that year.
Adopting a much more strategic approach to their purchasing requirements a number of new initiatives and processes were implemented as a category management methodology was applied. One such initiative the Aliaxis On-Line Purchasing Services* was short-listed by the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS) for their 2008 and 2009 Annual Awards of Purchasing Best Practice. Although Aliaxis didn’t win the award their nomination was recognition of the significant progress made.
Following the successes achieved in the UK, in mid 2008 Aliaxis elected to widen the concept onto a European basis and the Aliaxis UK Purchasing Department now form part of the Aliaxis European Purchasing Network; a collective of purchasing teams throughout the Aliaxis European businesses who collaborate and develop purchasing strategies at a European level.
Of course many purchase categories are more efficiently managed at purely a national or site level and within the UK Purchasing Dept we cater for all three levels of category management.
